OT: Tim Banks named Tennessee Defensive Coordinator
February 15th, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
Sources: Tennessee is finalizing a deal to hire Penn State co-defensive coordinator Tim Banks as the school’s new DC. Banks has extensive DC experience, including at Illinois, Cincinnati and Central Michigan.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 15, 2021
February 15th, 2021 at 12:51 PM ^
Wish him luck with Tennessee, not gonna be easy.
February 15th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
M has been raiding their fridge lately. Looks like they want some of our Faygo.
February 15th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
Not our precious juggalo juice!
February 15th, 2021 at 1:09 PM ^
Whoop! Whoop!
February 15th, 2021 at 12:58 PM ^
Maybe opening up some of these near 94 is the key to catching up to OSU in recruiting
February 15th, 2021 at 2:08 PM ^
Should you need to put on an immediate 5lbs...
Sausage Hashbrown Bowl - All the way. Something like 1,400 calories
February 15th, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
and stomach ailments.
February 15th, 2021 at 1:05 PM ^
Looks like Linguist is going to be stealing kids from Tennessee for Michigan and Banks is going to be stealing kids from Michigan for Tennessee
February 15th, 2021 at 1:12 PM ^
Bellamy and Hart ain't gonna let that happen.
February 15th, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
At best I think Tennessee would get the guys that Kentucky would get here
February 15th, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
Yes, I'll take that trade. I was on the Banks bandwagon, but I'll take Linguist, Bellamy and Hart over Banks.
February 15th, 2021 at 1:32 PM ^
Primary recruiter for Lance Dixon, who we are projected to get from the portal. Hope that this doesn't change that
February 15th, 2021 at 3:40 PM ^
Right now if you had a choice between Michigan and Tennessee, where would you go? Banks or no Banks?
February 15th, 2021 at 4:30 PM ^
I'm bias, but I'd go to Michigan ?
February 15th, 2021 at 6:06 PM ^
Banks with McDonald's bags though?
February 16th, 2021 at 11:41 AM ^
Yes, but Michigan got the Macdonald so, they win.
February 15th, 2021 at 2:08 PM ^
Banks seems like a fine secondary coach and recruiter. I'm glad he isn't our DC. Macdonald may have a nonexistent track record as a DC, but Banks has a straight up bad track record.
February 15th, 2021 at 2:27 PM ^
Just looking very roughly at the numbers I'm not seeing that at Penn State. They were terrible his first year there and got better.
Admittedly, at Illinois they were absolutely terrible for the first three years he was there and then improved in his last year.
February 15th, 2021 at 7:18 PM ^
But Banks wasn't the DC. He was the co-DC and it's widely thought that the other guy was the primary DC. When Banks was the sole DC his defenses were quite bad at CMU and Illinois. Their improvement in his final year at Illinois happened after a co-DC was hired.
February 15th, 2021 at 2:40 PM ^
Tennessee coming after Michigan recruits. Revenge! I was disappointed that Washington didn’t take the job, was hoping for a hit to the OSU staff.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:55 PM ^
OSU launched into "Keep promising young coach protocols" apparently Washington was pretty well set for Rocky Top and then...changed his mind. Would love to find out what happened behind the scenes there.
Oh, well, if OSU can't lose Washington at least the guy who was making inroads in SE Michigan for Penn St. is elsewhere now.
February 15th, 2021 at 2:50 PM ^
I'd be surprised if he stole a lot of guys from UM, but I absolutely see him being a pain for the MSU/UK-level teams that now have to deal with UT being in the mix.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:56 PM ^
I never understood why UT didn't recruit Ohio harder.
February 15th, 2021 at 9:43 PM ^
Historically they didn’t need to. They would get instate, NC, and other border states
February 15th, 2021 at 2:59 PM ^
Good luck Mr. Banks and your going to find out that coordinating a defense in the SEC each and every week is a long way from Penn State. Glad he is away from the Big10 but heading into a really difficult job.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:01 PM ^
Opens the possibility of Zordich landing in Happy Valley I suppose.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:06 PM ^
Glad he didn't go to osu or msu!
February 15th, 2021 at 3:06 PM ^
Glad he didn't go to osu or msu!
February 15th, 2021 at 7:42 PM ^
We get players from Tennessee, Tennessee gets players from Detroit. Interesting.