Coordinators flourishing. Tim Banks, Jim Knowles proof of that | Adams

College football coordinators have never had it so good. Take former Tennessee defensive coordinator Tim Banks for example. Josh Heupel fired him as soon as he locked down his 2026 recruiting class and not long after the Vols contributed mightily to Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia’s Heisman Trophy campaign. In a different line of work, being fired a few weeks before Christmas might qualify as catastrophic. But coordinators can flourish in the face of such untimely dismissals. The Vols owed Banks $4.5 million. But UT fans won’t have to fret how that might impact their NIL cash flow since Banks was out of work about as long as it took Tennessee to devise...