Biggins:
“I think you can read this two ways. 1) there is a silent commitment although I have no idea who that could be, or 2) UW evaluated Banks' senior tape and didn't feel he was good enough to continue to pursue. That happens all the time and the polite way to exit out of the recruitment is to say, 'sorry man, love you but we filled that spot,' rather then, 'yeh we don't think you're good enough to play here.”
“I have gut feel Smalls could end up at UW and I know Huffman, who knows him better then anyone, feels same but they play two different positions, Smalls is more hybrid DE/OLB, Banks is ILB so I don't think you need to drop Banks for Smalls, especially when Smalls isn't a sure thing right now.“
“I like Banks but I was on here a few weeks ago arguing with some about why he wasn't rated higher. He's a solid prospect but he's not Ray Lewis. He's a decent to good athlete, a little undersized, good moving forward but not great laterally and just ok in pass coverage. I think the board consensus was a little different then what we and some other colleges all thought. Again, I like him, but he's not a sure thing no-brainer.”
“Oklahoma and Ohio State have pulled back a bit as well. Right now, I'm very curious to see where his recruitment goes from here. Maybe those schools backed off because they felt he was a strong lean elsewhere or maybe they backed off because they had other guys higher on their board, we'll see.”
“Banks was disappointed, UW was probably his leader.”
“Not that much to read in to, every staff has their recruiting boards and who they like best, the coaches watched senior film and felt like others fit the defense better.”
“I have not heard anything about Henry wanting to transfer out at this time“
“Let me just clarify, I like Banks, he would be a take for me but I also could see why schools would have other players rated higher on their board as well. Passing on Banks is not the same thing as if they decided to pass on Trent McDuffie for example.”
