Tennessee is set to hire Penn State co-defensive coordinator Tim Banks as the Volunteers' defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN.
Banks, 49, has spent the past five seasons at Penn State, where he also coached the Nittany Lions' safeties. Before that, he was the co-defensive coordinator at Illinois, the co-defensive coordinator at Cincinnati and the defensive coordinator at Central Michigan, which is his alma mater. Yahoo Sports first reported Monday that Tennessee was finalizing a deal to hire Banks.
This will be Banks' first coaching stint in the SEC, although he was an assistant at Memphis in 2001 and 2002.