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Clemson AD believes football clean, Smith and basketball program under formal review

Dan Radakovich was supposed to be taking questions regarding the approval of Dabo Swinney’s record contract on Friday.

Instead, Clemson’s athletic director had to field a barrage of questions from the media in regard to assistant men’s basketball coach Steve Smith’s comments that were heard in in a Federal Court Thursday in New York.

In the proceeding, a video was played of a wiretap recording that included Smith talking to convicted felon Christian Dawkins and an undercover FBI agent. The recording was from a conversation taken in July of 2017 about the recruitment of former Duke star Zion Williamson.