Editor's note: During the past two decades, the Nebraska football team has cycled through dozens of assistant coaches. You tend to lose track of where they've matriculated. In coming weeks, the Journal Star will take readers through a "Where are they now" of some former NU assistants. We continue with Mark Banker.
Drenched in sweat, Mark Banker wanted to make a beeline for the showers in the Washington State football locker room.
It was early March, not long before the coronavirus pandemic shut down most forms of athletics. The 64-year-old Banker, the new Cougars safeties coach, had just put players through a change-of-direction drill, and WSU defensive coordinator Jake Dickert evidently admired Banker's zest.