Mark Beier isn’t a do-the-job-halfway kind of guy.
So when he retired from broadcasting in 2016 after more than two decades as the Voice of the Rockets, he was all-in on putting down the headset.
And that’s what happened over the next six-plus years, as Beier worked his day job as manager for business development for Rocket Sports Properties and viewed football and men’s basketball from a different perch with nothing adorned to his head.
But in late 2022, Beier’s replacement, Brent Balbinot, was fired. The details remain murky, with Learfield and the University of Toledo remaining tight-lipped.