WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
Smith teamed up with Darrin Gray to co-author The Jersey Effect, which examines the ways in which being a professional athlete can affect your life away from the field.
PHOTO COURTESY DARRIN GRAY
they almost dared each other into entering the bull-riding competition on one trip, but decided they were much more afraid of Coach Holtz's reaction if he found out than they were of the bull. Wisne said of all the things he saw Smith
do in the year they lived together, playing the guitar was the most impressive. "We would sit and watch him play, and
I would think to myself that just doesn't seem like something that's natural what he's doing," Wisne said. "I would always think in the back of my mind that he's probably going to be some kind of musi- cian. He could play anything by ear."
about his roommate's future career turned out to be right. Connersvine signed a re- cord deal shortly before the Colts won the Super Bowl in 2007, and Smith's new group is currently working on its second album. Concerts and other events give Smith a platform to promote The Jersey Ef- fect, which climbed into the top 25 lists for youth ministry books and NFL books dur- ing its first month on Amazon.com. When he's not on the road promoting,
Like Holtz's prediction, Wisne's hunch
Smith now spends the majority of his time with his wife and children in Zionsville, Ind. ✦
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