Here is everything Miami point guard Tre Donadson said at ACC Media Days:
Q. Your early experience within the ACC, how does it differ or how does it feel similar from the conference and the play where you just came from?
TRE DONALDSON: From what I know about the ACC it's a very physical league, very fast-paced league with a lot of different talent in it.
Me coming from the SEC and the Big Ten, I have a small familiarity with it. So just me being able to -- me being around the block a couple of times knowing how this college basketball can go, I feel like it gives me somewhat of an advantage.
Q. Tre, whenever you were looking for a school to go to, what was it about Miami that made you want to come?
TRE DONALDSON: Just the staff that not only believed in me, but that can help me and that I can help the staff as well. Just a staff that I'm familiar with. A lot of the coaches we have I'm familiar with, I've been around since I was little; and a staff that can help me with the little things.
They knew I can play basketball, but just help me be a better man, be a better brother, son, whatever. Just bigger aspects of life.
Q. To be in this place where you have a new head coach and a new roster and being a part of that, it essentially is that new chapter, that fresh page, that new era for Miami basketball. What does that mean to you that you get to be a part of this clean slate, so to speak?
TRE DONALDSON: It means a lot. We have a great team, but I mean, not only just a great team, a great staff. Just being able to get a fresh start and do something that's bigger than you. I mean, playing for the University of Miami, coming in after a rough year they had last year, just being able to give them a fresh slate and a new spark and a new energy is our biggest thing.
Q. You're from Tallahassee, I believe. I read somewhere that your mom played softball at Florida State.
TRE DONALDSON: Yes, sir.
Q. What does she think about you playing for the rival university?
TRE DONALDSON: My mom has been one of my biggest supporters, if not my biggest supporter. Her and my dad. My mom is going to support me no matter what. When I got in the portal, she was obviously Florida State, but she understood that it was my decision what was best for me and my future.
With me choosing Miami, she's all on board. I mean, she's going to wear Miami stuff. She won't be in no Florida State stuff. None. (Smiling).
THE MODERATOR: And that's on the record. Thank you, Tre. Questions for Malik.
Q. Your early experience within the ACC, how does it differ or how does it feel similar from the conference and the play where you just came from?
TRE DONALDSON: From what I know about the ACC it's a very physical league, very fast-paced league with a lot of different talent in it.
Me coming from the SEC and the Big Ten, I have a small familiarity with it. So just me being able to -- me being around the block a couple of times knowing how this college basketball can go, I feel like it gives me somewhat of an advantage.
Q. Tre, whenever you were looking for a school to go to, what was it about Miami that made you want to come?
TRE DONALDSON: Just the staff that not only believed in me, but that can help me and that I can help the staff as well. Just a staff that I'm familiar with. A lot of the coaches we have I'm familiar with, I've been around since I was little; and a staff that can help me with the little things.
They knew I can play basketball, but just help me be a better man, be a better brother, son, whatever. Just bigger aspects of life.
Q. To be in this place where you have a new head coach and a new roster and being a part of that, it essentially is that new chapter, that fresh page, that new era for Miami basketball. What does that mean to you that you get to be a part of this clean slate, so to speak?
TRE DONALDSON: It means a lot. We have a great team, but I mean, not only just a great team, a great staff. Just being able to get a fresh start and do something that's bigger than you. I mean, playing for the University of Miami, coming in after a rough year they had last year, just being able to give them a fresh slate and a new spark and a new energy is our biggest thing.
Q. You're from Tallahassee, I believe. I read somewhere that your mom played softball at Florida State.
TRE DONALDSON: Yes, sir.
Q. What does she think about you playing for the rival university?
TRE DONALDSON: My mom has been one of my biggest supporters, if not my biggest supporter. Her and my dad. My mom is going to support me no matter what. When I got in the portal, she was obviously Florida State, but she understood that it was my decision what was best for me and my future.
With me choosing Miami, she's all on board. I mean, she's going to wear Miami stuff. She won't be in no Florida State stuff. None. (Smiling).
THE MODERATOR: And that's on the record. Thank you, Tre. Questions for Malik.
