When new Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian assembled his first coaching staff on the Forty Acres, one of the biggest coups was luring special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Jeff Banks from the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he’d spent the previous three seasons.
“His roots in recruiting are really here in in the great state of Texas, but he’s also in my opinion the premier special teams coordinator in the country,” Sarkisian said in January. “So we get a fantastic coach there, we get a fantastic recruiter with with ties to the state.”
After the Alabama special teams took a big jump from No.