Josh Banderas says Micah Parsons was a silent commit before the Diaco fiasco unfolded

[JHudson]

Josh Banderas says Micah Parsons was silently committed to Nebraska at one point.

There's no particular reason to doubt that, but it's unlikely he was ever "silently committed to Trent Bray and Mark Banker." More on that below the video.



If it really played out that way (committed to Bray & Banker), Parsons would've been publicly committed to Penn State and silently committed to Nebraska at the same time. Possible, I suppose, but unlikely given the timeline:

• Feb. 2016: Parsons commits to PSU
• Jan. 2017: Mark Banker fired/Bob Diaco hired
• April 2017: Parsons decommits from PSU
• June 2017: Parsons attends "Friday Night Lights" event in Lincoln
• Fall of 2017: Nebraska goes 4-8
• Dec. 2017: Parsons commits to PSU and signs

It seems far more likely that Parsons silently committed with Trent Bray and Bob Diaco in spring or summer of 2017.

Losing eight games, not losing Mark Banker, is probably what prompted him to shop around. He surely would've kept his options open in any case, given his offer list.

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

Wouldn’t have mattered. Coaches were lost anyway. Irrelevant.

 

[ReasonablyRed]

Wouldn’t have mattered. Coaches were lost anyway. Irrelevant.

Add in poor leadership at Nebraska.
Congratulations!

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

Add in poor leadership at Nebraska.
Congratulations!
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You don’t have to tell me, I’ve been bitching about that for 25 years.

 

[BasilLongfellow]

Forcing the Diaco hire was a disaster

Riley had a tremendous class that year

Parsons and Bookie had similar relationships with the old man. Parsons was going to play both ways for us

Remember when he came to FNL as a LB and ended up being the best receiver there, too?

I wish we could have seen what a Riley/Banker team could have done with a few more years.

Sean Eichorst was probably the most passive aggressive cancer to hit UNL athletics this century.

 

[BasilLongfellow]

Josh Banderas says Micah Parsons was silently committed to Nebraska at one point.

There's no particular reason to doubt that, but it's unlikely he was ever "silently committed to Trent Bray and Mark Banker." More on that below the video.



If it really played out that way (committed to Bray & Banker), Parsons would've been publicly committed to Penn State and silently committed to Nebraska at the same time. Possible, I suppose, but unlikely given the timeline:

• Feb. 2016: Parsons commits to PSU
• Jan. 2017: Mark Banker fired/Bob Diaco hired
• April 2017: Parsons decommits from PSU
• June 2017: Parsons attends "Friday Night Lights" event in Lincoln
• Fall of 2017: Nebraska goes 4-8
• Dec. 2017: Parsons commits to PSU and signs

It seems far more likely that Parsons silently committed with Trent Bray and Bob Diaco in spring or summer of 2017.

Losing eight games, not losing Mark Banker, is probably what prompted him to shop around. He surely would've kept his options open in any case, given his offer list.

I was wrong on the timeline in my head; good post on that detail

I know he committed to MR at or before that FNL camp

 

[Uncle Buck]

Forcing the Diaco hire was a disaster

Riley had a tremendous class that year

Parsons and Bookie had similar relationships with the old man. Parsons was going to play both ways for us

Remember when he came to FNL as a LB and ended up being the best receiver there, too?

I wish we could have seen what a Riley/Banker team could have done with a few more years.

Sean Eichorst was probably the most passive aggressive cancer to hit UNL athletics this century.

Something about an energy vampire

 

[CHRHUSKER]

Riley was in over his head, but Parsons would have made a difference in how good our defense was. Oh well.

 

[goodnterribles]

It's a shame they lost him in that cycle. Penn St got a real steal.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

Ye

Forcing the Diaco hire was a disaster

Riley had a tremendous class that year

Parsons and Bookie had similar relationships with the old man. Parsons was going to play both ways for us

Remember when he came to FNL as a LB and ended up being the best receiver there, too?

I wish we could have seen what a Riley/Banker team could have done with a few more years.

Sean Eichorst was probably the most passive aggressive cancer to hit UNL athletics this century.

Yeah, it would have been great to see Riley grinning like an idiot while the program sunk even further into oblivion. (Well, that happened anyway, right?) Frost ended up sucking worse, but at t least there was hope (blind and misguided as it was) for a couple of years after the Riley disaster. There was basically 0% chance of success from the moment he was announced, no matter who they recruited.

If Riley had been retained much longer, I think a good portion of the fanbase would have checked out permanently. I could barely even watch those games, knowing that we were doomed from Day 1 and left the board during most of that time as it was so embarrassing and bleak. When Pelini was fired, they severed every last tie to the past that wasnt already gone in 2004.

Eichorst couldnt hold a candle to Pedey and Perlman in the cancer dept, IMO. He was nothing more than Perlman’s flunky/hatchet man. His utter incompetence was just a side benefit.