Hicks has amazing Kansas State visit
K-State hosted plenty of prospects at its annual Junior Day event on Saturday. The majority of the prospects did not hold offers entering the day and nobody left with a new offer. Some did, however, leave with optimism about something materializing in the future, and everyone exited Manhattan with an excited and energized feeling about Bill Snyder and Kansas State.
One of those was Wichita linebacker Quinton Hicks from Campus High. He is the half-brother of Marcus Hicks, the top Kansas prospect who was not in attendance because he was visiting Notre Dame in South Bend instead.
While Kansas State has offered Marcus, they have not offered Quinton. But that does not mean they are not interested. He has visited before and the Wildcats are continuing to monitor his development and evaluating him further. Saturday was another chance for him to learn more about the Wildcat program and become more comfortable with how it operates.
“It was amazing as usual,” Hicks said of his visit. “Coach (Blake) Seiler always makes me feel like I’m at home.”
Hicks is proceeding and doing everything in his power to nab an offer from K-State, or any other program that takes notice of his talents. He will be back in Manhattan over the summer to showcase his improvements.
“Coach Seiler keeps it real and is always straight-forward,” Hicks explained. “I just have to keep working hard and see what happens before they offer me. I’m going to be at their camps over the summer regardless if I get an offer or not. I learned so much at the last K-State camp.”
The Wildcats will be in the business of adding a few more linebackers in the class of 2019. They signed one in the last class – Rahsaan York, a junior college prospect. But they were also able to finally get Daniel Green enrolled as well. Not only that, they secured the commitment of Levi Archer, who gray-shirted. Archer will go on scholarship January of 2019.
He won’t be the last. They’ll want another, perhaps two more. If Quinton Hicks receives an offer, there’s a strong chance he would jump at the chance.
“I love the coaches there,” he said. “A ton of my friends plan on attending K-State to go to school. So I would still have people around that I am familiar with. I’ve been a K-State fan since I was little.”