Mark Banker Quotations

I hate to say it out loud, but I feel down deep in my heart that the LSU game had a profound effect on what we did. It affected us physically and mentally.

He needs to be the leader back there. You look to the players who have experience for leadership. Certainly he's a guy in the back end we'll look to.

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Early on, Joey has shown the thing we expected him to do as far as work ethic and consistency, and eagerness to focus on the details and wanting to be the best player he can be.

All opportunity to tackle is about the way we finish to the ball. We show up, everyone always chasing the ball. We want to be in position where our hips are down, our knees are down. We tag off on the ball (at the ball carrier.) That's how we practice tackling.

I remember seeing him in junior college playing as hard with a cast on his hand as he did before he got hurt. He truly is a tough guy.