AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — For the first time since Steve Smith’s comments were released by the FBI in a New York Federal Court on April 25, Clemson men’s basketball coach Brad Brownell spoke publicly about his former associate head coach and how he felt about the comments.
Smith’s contract was not renewed by Clemson on May 3 after what he said in an FBI wiretap conversation with convicted felon Christian Dawkins. In July of 2017, while in Las Vegas, Dawkins was taped talking to Smith about the recruitment of former Duke star Zion Williamson and the Clemson football program.