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Article: Smoker, Michigan State fight back to the top
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- October 17, 2003
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Brett Angel
University Wire
10-17-2003
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Even when his future appeared as though it couldn't get any bleaker, Jeff Smoker maintained a quiet confidence in himself.
Surrounded by a Michigan State football program caught up in negative distractions and plagued by substance abuse problems that threatened his own career, the Spartans' quarterback took comfort in a single, simple thought.
He knew he'd be back.
"I knew that when it came down to it, it was in my hands," Smoker said. "If I did the right thing on the field and off, if I took care of what I needed to on a daily basis and kept working towards the goals I set for myself, I was the only one that ...