University Daily Kansan
Offense ready to roll with Banks
Sports Writer
By GARY BEDORE
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Norris Banks may not be playing before friends and family this Saturday at UCLA, but the senior fullback is ready to help get KU's offense moving.
Banks earned only 40 yards last Saturday playing before some of his relatives, who made the trip from Houston to College Station for KU's game with Texas A&M.
"It was a typical first game for me," Banks said. "I got the ball about ten times, and I look for us to improve this week."
and I look for it to be impressed.
He said playing before his family was a thorny task.
"It was the first time my younger brothers and sisters got to see me play, and I was glad to see them," Banks said. "They all enjoyed it even though we lost."
enjoyed it even after Banks said and always wanted to play in the Star-Bluebonnet Bowl game in Houston, but playing in College Station was a close second.
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"I WAS really psyched and wanted to win," Banks said. "It was unfortunate we fell down early, but we came back and held our poise."
The 8-2, 210-pound Banks had a chance to show his form how he has been spent in his time in Kansas. Banks stunned ACM crowd of 31,000 with a play he will never
With Kansas trailing 28-0 in the third
Norris Banks
It may have been too little too late for KU to pull out a victory, but the crowd was stunned.
quarter. Banks took a pitch-out from quarterback Brian Bethe and tossed an 80-
yard touchdown pass to his roommate,
David Verser.
sunken.
"She was thrilled to see it," Banks said. "She said that after I threw it people were saying 'Watch that number 38,' and she said, 'Watch它, that's my son.'"
Banks said that he had thrown the option pass in high school several times, but that Saturday's pass was one of his biggest football thrills.
In his college career, Banks has emerged as one of the most proficient runners in Kansas history. Banks needs only 454 yards to become one of the top five runners in KU.
"I WOULD be an honor to be the fifth leading rusher," Banks said. "Being up there with guys like Gale Sayers and Laverne (Smith) would be a thrill."
Sayers just happens to have been his boyhood idol.
"When I grew up playing sandlot ball, my
reason
Banks has started the past two seasons but has has been shadowed by offensive stars such as Nolan Cromwell and Smith.
friends called me Gale Sayers, "Banks said. Then Sayers came down to Texas to talk to me, and it tripped me out. That's one of the reasons I came to KU."
"The last two seasons it was Nolan and Laverne running and me and Campfield blocking," he said. "If publicity comes, but if it doesn't, I don't worry about it."
As a senior, he said, he tries to help out some of KU's younger players.
some of us're really trying.
"They make some mistakes but are really trying," he said. "I try to help them. They're in the same boat I was in."
Banks has played on two winning teams at KU. He said that last season promised to be a good one until Cromwell was injured and then the record. The Hawks finished the year 6-5.
"It really hurt us. If we had Nolan we could have won more," he said.
could have worked better. After this season, the physical education major said, he would like to try professional football.
ball.
But until then, Banks wants to help get the KU offense scoring, maybe with some more 80-yard touchdown passes.
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"The Kansas football team will be full of surprises this year," he grinned.
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