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Basketball Recruiting Update: Banks Goes Elsewhere

2016 C James Banks committed to Texas. Is this a big deal or not?

Things had been relatively quiet for Vanderbilt basketball on the recruiting trail over the past couple of weeks. On the other hand, Kevin Stallings is on Twitter now, FINALLY:

It could have meant a lot of different things. It could have nothing to do with the recruiting process, or it could have EVERYTHING to do with the recruiting process.

With a limited number of scholarships available, the early bird gets the worm, so to speak. If a program has one scholarship available, or intends on taking one player at a particular position, and has offered scholarships to multiple players -- your scholarship offer only exists so long as one of the other players doesn't beat you to it.