Maason Smith Details Week 1 Suspension
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00:00 >> You're dealing with the ankle, right?
00:02 Just an ankle?
00:02 >> Yeah.
00:03 >> How does that part feel now?
00:04 >> Good.
00:05 It was just a little knick knack, and I had re-aggravated it.
00:10 But I mean, I would have played this weekend if I could have easily.
00:15 I'm not gonna sit out and win.
00:17 >> Well, obviously you didn't really have a choice in that.
00:20 >> Yeah.
00:20 >> I guess what happened with the autograph signing from your perspective?
00:27 When you go back, would you have done anything different?
00:29 >> Definitely, I didn't really know too much about the whole NIL space.
00:37 Because at the time, coming to school, there was so much talk about NIL supposed
00:41 to drop on January 1st, February 1st.
00:44 It was just month after month after month that they were saying that it was
00:49 supposed to launch.
00:51 And with the lack of knowledge that I had on the subject, I made a decision
00:57 with a couple of my former teammates and did sign it.
01:01 But I do feel like, yeah, looking back on it,
01:04 I mean, I didn't really know really that that was the thing.
01:09 That's not what I was thinking about when I did it.
01:13 I was thinking that it was good.
01:14 So I mean, going back, I just wish I had more knowledge on the NIL space.
01:19 >> When did you know for sure that you were gonna have to buy this game?
01:24 >> For sure, well, for sure, I had known for probably a couple weeks.
01:32 I always knew about the possibility, but I just never really thought about it.
01:37 I was so focused on playing them and getting the game against them and
01:42 getting my revenge with them.
01:43 I wasn't really worried about it.
01:47 Yeah, but it's been a possibility for some time.
01:51 >> Was it one of those things that you probably would have gotten taken care of
01:54 last year if you hadn't got hurt?
01:55 >> Yeah, yeah.
01:56 >> What did it feel like to, once you knew for sure, because of that getting hurt
02:03 against Florida State last year,
02:05 what was your reaction to knowing you would not be able to play them?
02:07 >> Well, I definitely wasn't happy.
02:09 But at the end of the day, I'm a firm believer in faith in God.
02:16 So I just let him take care of everything that I have going on.
02:19 I've been through a lot of stuff in the last year of my life.
02:21 And I just always had faith in him.
02:25 And if God didn't want me to play in that game, then there's a reason for that.
02:28 And that's all I could believe and follow.
02:32 And I try not to dwell on it.
02:34 >> Did going through last year and going through that injury, did that sort of help
02:38 you sort of, I guess compartmentalize and move on?
02:42 >> Yeah. >> From not playing this past weekend?
02:44 >> I mean, God, I guess you could say in a way,
02:48 I was really just telling myself I'd have missed the whole year.
02:51 One game ain't gonna hurt me.
02:53 Stuff like that, really just to try to get my mind off of the fact that I
02:57 wasn't gonna be able to play against them.
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