Banks - originally from Pensocola, Fla., spent two years at Murray State and played 10 games - with nine starts - his redshirt freshman season in 2016 before transferring to Iowa Western.
He redshirted the 2015 season after suffering a broken hand on the second day of fall camp.
He left Murray State after he has three different OL coaches and another one was on the way.
Banks is schedule to be a mid-term grad and would have two seasons of eligibility remaining.
He made unofficial summer trips to Auburn, Mississippi State and South Alabama and is also hearing from West Virginia. Oklahoma and TCU.
Banks has offers now are from Iowa State, Missouri and Middle Tennessee State
He originally committed to Troy out of high school, but that school had a coaching change and he ended up at Murray State.
Really getting fed up with Coach Anderson. Not trying to bash a kid but If we bring him in he better be a JC talent that can contribute and provide some quality OL depth.
Anderson has really dropped the ball as far as recruiting and development are concerned IMO.
I think fans have a right to question the evaluation on OL Juco players, seeing they haven’t worked out for this staff. His offer list is most definitely underwhelming. I instantly question if this is an SEC player or another bust from the Juco ranks. I hope I’m wrong.
Gosh, if we get too carried away with this we’ll declare Brandon Martin a bust. It is early.
I seem to recall a lot of coaches (not just at UA) chattering about JUCO kids: “you plan on them helping in some way immediately, but you can’t count on them until they’ve been on campus for at least a semester.”
Always going to be a higher risk due to only have a two-year window to succeed in vs the 4-5 year window for HS recruits.
Richard remembers Nance’s lukewarm reception, I remember the same about Spaight with many fans concluding, “always good to see a hometown kid get a chance.” Worked for him, but not for Reed.
JUCO recruiting is more fickle than HS recruiting.