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My Gut Reaction to Mark Banker Being Fired
- Thread starter Adam Carriker
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Since Hank Hughes had not worked with Riley prior to 2015, he has really only fired two of his friends. That said, Mark Banker did recommend Hughes.
I understand that this could be concerning, but sometimes what looks like it might work just doesn't. Riley had expectations of what he wanted and what he thought would work and it apparently wasn't working. He could have held on to both and said let's see if this works for another season. That could have been worse. His sense of urgency can be good if these new hires are as good as the Parrella hire appears to be.
Banker could definitely be tied into recruiting as he was not the lead recruiter on any of the 2016 class or any of the current 2017 commits.
If he gets the right guys for these positions, he can retire happy. If not, he might be retiring much earlier.
I understand that this could be concerning, but sometimes what looks like it might work just doesn't. Riley had expectations of what he wanted and what he thought would work and it apparently wasn't working. He could have held on to both and said let's see if this works for another season. That could have been worse. His sense of urgency can be good if these new hires are as good as the Parrella hire appears to be.
Banker could definitely be tied into recruiting as he was not the lead recruiter on any of the 2016 class or any of the current 2017 commits.
If he gets the right guys for these positions, he can retire happy. If not, he might be retiring much earlier.
My thought on the concern of firing 3 coaches in 2 years is this: when Riley was hired, he had to throw together a staff really fast so they could salvage the recruiting class that year. He hired people he knew and was comfortable with/had worked with for a long time. I don't find it all that surprising that some of his long time guys didn't work out. Maybe they weren't really 100% up for starting a new challenge, who knows. I'm just glad to see Riley sees the problem and has the ability to fire his friends. Here's hoping he's got someone great lined up.
Dollars to donuts, this 'decision' came from the administration.
Why do you say he had to throw a staff together really fast? He was hired very, very early.
Curious as to why you think this? I'd be more willing to be that it didn't come from the admin.
If so, I applaud the administration. Banker wasn't going to get it done.
Maybe my memory sucks (probably does), I was just thinking he was hired early December which would've given him less than 2 months till signing day. Not a ton of time to interview potential staff, IMO.
You are correct Thill just needs to get his agenda on!
Thanks. I still think it came from Riley and not Eichorst.
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Because it's not in Riley's nature and he's had 20+ years prior to make a change.
You're right about the timing, but that's still early in the game. Interviewed and accepted the job on Tuesday following the end of tree regular season. Doesn't happen any earlier than that.
Give it a rest.
