Freddie Banks - Football Coach - Montana State University Athletics

Freddie Banks

Title:
Defensive Coordinator/Secondary
Email:
Football@msubobcats.com
Phone:
406.994.5694

Freddie Banks begins his first season at Montana State, part of Brent Vigen's initial coaching staff. He serves as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. Banks is a familiar figure to Vigen. A member of the 2010 NDSU squad that beat the Bobcats in the FCS Playoffs, Banks’ coaching career began one season later across the Red River at Minnesota State-Moorhead. In two seasons he rose to the level of coordinator there, then coached cornerbacks at Nicholls in 2013-14. After one season in the Louisiana prep ranks, Banks coached the secondary at Midwestern State in 2016-17, and cornerbacks at Stephen F. Austin in 2018-19. In 2020, he coached cornerbacks at Nevada. Banks played for one season at Division II Mercyhurst before transferring to North Dakota State. He played corner for the Bison in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and as a senior competed in the FCS Playoffs. The Bison beat MSU in the second round before losing to eventual national champion Easter Washington a week later.