The firing of Banker serves as the latest quick-trigger move by Riley at Nebraska. He fired Hank Hughes as defensive line coach after the 2015 season and dismissed special teams coordinator Bruce Read after the loss to Iowa that closed the regular season in November.
Six of his nine assistants worked for him at OSU -- Cavanaugh, Danny Langsdorf (offensive coordinator), Mark Banker (defensive coordinator), Reggie Davis (running backs),Trent Bray (linebackers) and Bruce Read (special teams), along with Chris Brasfield (director of high school relations), grad ass
"To me, that's one of the biggest differences in college and the NFL - the kicking," said Oregon State special teams coordinator Bruce Read, a former NFL assistant. "In the NFL, if it's a game-winner, it's through, it's done and you walk off and you won the game. The kicker did it. But in college, y