Mazi Smith says "Don't nobody talk about" JH rumors to NFL
I saw this article from a couple of days ago that apparently nobody has posted yet (gasp!).
Team captain Mazi Smith was interviewed and says the guys inside of the program didn't seem to be impacted by the uncertainty surrounding Harbaugh's future at Michigan.
"Don't nobody talk about it," said Smith. "We're kind of trained to be like, once something becomes a reality, then we can react. But until then, what are you going to do?"
"My coach left before I seen him, I never saw Coach Matty on campus," Smith said. Greg Mattison, the former U-M defensive coordinator who recruited Smith for several years, took a job with Ohio State shortly before Smith even made it to campus for his freshman year.
"So I learned early that this isn't about personal relationships or friendships, this is about business, and this is about winning. And just like I want to move on at some point and go to the NFL for my career, the coaches are in the same boat."
"I think what helped me a lot was what I told you earlier. No matter what circumstance I'm in, I'm going to make it. I'm going to make sure that I make something happen. My biggest fear is to be one of them guys on the field getting put on their ass. I don't like that shit. And it happens sometimes, but that ain't something that I want to go through. So whatever I can do to keep me from doing that, I'm going to do. Who your head coach is don't got nothing to do with you getting put on your ass. So you've kind of got to keep the main thing the main thing at the end of the day."
Love that last part in bold.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
Words to live by.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:00 PM ^
No shit, right? I want that on my wall, "Who your head coach is don't got nothing to do with you getting put on your ass. " :D
January 25th, 2023 at 3:04 PM ^
Right up there with "Overtaking Ass" and "Fuck Lion"
January 25th, 2023 at 3:33 PM ^
New banner slogan!
January 25th, 2023 at 5:48 PM ^
I would buy that M Go Shirt
January 25th, 2023 at 5:08 PM ^
While that is a good line and attitude for Mazi, ironically, perhaps, the words right after that actually ARE words to live by if you want to be successful: “So you've kind of got to keep the main thing the main thing at the end of the day.”
January 26th, 2023 at 9:32 AM ^
IIRC that’s also a RichRod aphorism
January 25th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
Strong words from a strong man...
January 25th, 2023 at 3:13 PM ^
Captain Insano?
January 25th, 2023 at 3:20 PM ^
He shows no mercy.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
Mazi on fire
January 25th, 2023 at 2:25 PM ^
Good Luck always Mazi. Good advice too. Wise beyond his years.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:26 PM ^
When I went to school we learned about double negatives, so according to Mazi, somebody does talk about it🤷♂️
January 25th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
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January 25th, 2023 at 2:31 PM ^
Avatar checks out.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:37 PM ^
He should have said "don't nobody not talk about JH never not leaving."
Quintuple negative --- which is the same as a single negative!
January 25th, 2023 at 2:46 PM ^
This is post-irony right?
January 25th, 2023 at 3:36 PM ^
did you also learn to be
- a downer
- an asshole
- not very original
?
January 25th, 2023 at 4:40 PM ^
Aint nobody got time for dat shit doe
January 25th, 2023 at 4:49 PM ^
turns out your teachers were teaching stupid stuff about how language works for a small subset of english speakers. they probably also did the "no split infinitives" thing too, didn't they?
January 25th, 2023 at 5:09 PM ^
Capitalize much? 😉
January 25th, 2023 at 6:55 PM ^
You don't have a period at the end of your sentence.
January 25th, 2023 at 7:10 PM ^
You should've learned what AAVE is when you were in school too, that way you wouldn't sound like an uneducated dickhead trying to sound smart.
January 26th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^
I always think of this when I hear a double negative:
January 26th, 2023 at 11:35 AM ^
Back in my day people like you had a cow about this SI article about another Michigan legend too:
Both my feets be off the ground.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:26 PM ^
Fuck Greg Mattison.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
Fuck Greg Xattison. Doesn't deserve the M.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:39 PM ^
January 25th, 2023 at 2:56 PM ^
He looks like a clown in all red, just put a red nose on him and call him Bozo. I hope he's proud of himself. He was pretty revered until he went there.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:34 PM ^
He looks creepy in red. From Swag Mattison to Gag Mattison.
January 25th, 2023 at 10:36 PM ^
Eh. While I can understand why some might still enjoy working themselves up over it, upon reflection I think that Mattison put in his time at Michigan honorably. His leaving for a better position was entirely understandable and forgivable. He owed nothing to Michigan.
January 26th, 2023 at 7:50 AM ^
I coached his grandson in baseball. On picture day I see this guy all decked out in that shitty team down south gear. I of course am always in my Michigan hat. I walked up to him and asked him why he would leave Michigan to go there. He looked at me, rubbed his fingers together, and said it's all about the money.
Go Blue!!!!
January 25th, 2023 at 3:07 PM ^
People can talk all they want about their principles, their ideals, their character.
But character reveals itself through what we say and go.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:21 PM ^
Obligatory.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:41 PM ^
Fuck Greg "Benedict Arnold" Mattison
January 25th, 2023 at 3:14 PM ^
He's not really my type. But if you cover him in hollandaise and you've got Greggs Benedict, and I might give that a second look.
January 25th, 2023 at 4:40 PM ^
if you're a monk, would it be Greggs Benedictine?
January 25th, 2023 at 2:28 PM ^
Mazi coming out guns a blazin
January 25th, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
Too soon.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:24 PM ^
He really unloaded on that reporter.
January 25th, 2023 at 7:15 PM ^
Well, Mazi was certainly well armed for that reporter’s question.
January 25th, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
Right now 11W and RCMB are in a fierce bidding war to produce the next YouTube documentary, "The Untold Truth about Mazi Smith"
January 25th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
When your rivals and competition are left to simply negative recruit on the notion that the head coach is so good he may jump to the NFL (because he wins at both levels) - they are getting desperate.
I'd love to see a solid contract basically guaranteeing 3-4 years of Harbaugh without all the offseason NFL chatter (bigger buyout, big guarantees up front per each year further out in the deal), but at some point the program will and needs to morph into an enterprise greater than the head coach.
I'm very grateful to Jim and what he's done for UM, and I'm hopeful that if/when he is done, he weill leave a very strong foundation and lineage for future success - unlike the scenario we faced when Lloyd left and we were wandering in the desert for 2 decades.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^
That bolded quote needs to be on a T-shirt.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:39 PM ^
He's a beast of integrity.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
LOL! Mazi telling us the players don't care about all that shit! I mean, they do, but probably not nearly as much as we do.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:45 PM ^
I think I speak for everyone here that Mazi is saying Jim is gone without saying Jim is gone. Pretty clear to me that this is his way of saying "it's ok Jim, you can go. You can go."
I mean anyone can see it. That whole Santa/Jim/Warde love triangle was just a ruse to give everyone time to process things.
Looks like my dollar is safe.