Smith said he encourages his players to take action, to be informed and to listen.

"What I’ve always talked about, last election, ‘Guys, be informed. This is a true way for people to hear your voice,’" Smith said. "Right now, I see a lot of protests. Protests are good. Then what do we do? It’s like there’s a death, there’s a funeral, then after the funeral, the next day everybody goes home. What I’m going to insist on, first off, all of our guys register to vote. That’s just a part of it, register to vote. Be informed. If you don’t like what’s going on right now, and we in America have acknowledged that we don’t like what’s going on right now, we have to look first at our leader. Do we like the policies that he has in place? Congress? Local government? This is how you have true change. For us, we have to get back to make sure people are informed.

“I think a little bit of what’s going on right now, a lot of people are saying, ‘I didn’t know.’ I think we all know right from wrong. … We’ve all been taught that. That’s what we’ve been preaching. We’re going to continue to do that with our program. There’s diversity. The only way to make real change is if we come together. Diversity does that."