By her own admission, Leah Banks-Meeks was surprised when her son, three-star cornerback Marcus “Speedy” Banks, verbally committed to LSU over the weekend.
“I thought maybe we were going to wait until the end of this month when he went to the Nike Opening,” she said on my radio show. “But things happen.”
Whatever you do, don’t mistake her surprise with disappointment or confusion. The Banks family is one of strong conviction and deeply-rooted faith. How else could a wife bury her husband in March and less than three months later be strong enough to support her youngest son’s decision to leave home for college?