Coaches
Ephraim Banda
His career from Wikipedia, each job checked against the team-season pages (✓ = a second source agrees, ≠ = they disagree)
Ephraim Banda
Played at Incarnate Word
Source: Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26
| Years | Team | Role | Title | Head coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Incarnate Word | GA | Student assistant | not known |
| 2012-2014 | Texas | GA | Graduate assistant | Mack Brown (2012-2013), Charlie Strong (2014) |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | Analyst | Defensive quality control coach | Dan Mullen* |
| 2016-2018 | Miami | Position | Safeties coach | Mark Richt |
| 2019-2020 | Miami | DC | Co-defensive coordinator & safeties coach✓ | Manny Diaz* |
| 2021-2022 | Utah State | DC | Defensive coordinator & safeties coach✓ | Blake Anderson* |
| 2023-2025 | Cleveland Browns (pro) | Position | Safeties coach | not known |
| 2026- | Cleveland Browns (pro) | Other | Defensive passing game coordinator | not known |
Record
Confirmed coordinator seasons since 2005. FBS rankings
| Season | Team | Job | EPA/play | Points/poss. | Success | Year before | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Miami | Co-defensive coordinator | 22 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 130 |
| 2020 | Miami | Co-defensive coordinator | 70 | 44 | 75 | 22 | 127 |
| 2021 | Utah State | Defensive coordinator | 55 | 45 | 77 | 114 | 130 |
| 2022 | Utah State | Defensive coordinator | 82 | 103 | 54 | 55 | 131 |
Worked under
- Mack Brown · Texas 2012-2013 (GA)
- Charlie Strong · Texas 2014 (GA)
- Dan Mullen* · Mississippi State 2015 (Analyst)
- Mark Richt · Miami 2016-2018 (Position)
- Manny Diaz* · Miami 2019-2020 (DC, Position)
- Blake Anderson* · Utah State 2021-2022 (DC, Position)
His tree
Coaches who were on his staffs
No one on his staffs among the coaches we hold.
Coached together
- Mike Santiago · Incarnate Word 2011 · him GA, them Head coach
- Blake Baker · Texas 2012 · him GA, them GA
- Bryan Harsin · Texas 2012 · him GA, them OC, Position
- Duane Akina · Texas 2012-2013 · him GA, them Other, Position
- Mack Brown · Texas 2012-2013 · him GA, them Head coach
- Major Applewhite* · Texas 2012-2013 · him GA, them OC, Position
- Manny Diaz* · Texas 2012-2013 · him GA, them DC, Position
- Darrell Wyatt · Texas 2013 · him GA, them OC
- Eman Naghavi · Texas 2013-2014 · him GA, them Analyst
- Greg Robinson · Texas 2013 · him GA, them DC
- Larry Porter · Texas 2013 · him GA, them Position
- Charlie Strong · Texas 2014 · him GA, them Head coach
- Chris Rumph · Texas 2014 · him GA, them Other, Position
- Joe Wickline · Texas 2014 · him GA, them OC
- Justin Burke · Texas 2014 · him GA, them Analyst
- Les Koenning · Texas 2014 · him GA, them Position
- Shawn Watson · Texas 2014 · him GA, them Other, Position
- Vance Bedford · Texas 2014 · him GA, them DC
- Billy Gonzales · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them OC, Position
- Brian Johnson · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them Position
- Dan Mullen* · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them Head coach
- Greg Knox · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them Position, ST coord.
- John Hevesy · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them OC, Other, Position
- Manny Diaz* · Mississippi State 2015 · him Analyst, them DC, Position
- Manny Diaz* · Miami 2016-2020 · him DC, Position, them DC, Head coach
- Mark Richt · Miami 2016-2018 · him Position, them Head coach
- Ron Dugans · Miami 2016-2018 · him Position, them OC, Position
- Thomas Brown · Miami 2016-2018 · him Position, them OC, Position
- Jess Simpson · Miami 2018 · him Position, them Other, Position
- Blake Baker · Miami 2019-2020 · him DC, Position, them DC, Position
- Dan Enos · Miami 2019 · him DC, Position, them OC, Position
- Todd Stroud · Miami 2019-2020 · him DC, Position, them Other, Position
- Jonathan Brewer · Miami 2020 · him DC, Position, them Analyst
- Rhett Lashlee* · Miami 2020 · him DC, Position, them OC, Position
- Rob Likens · Miami 2020 · him DC, Position, them Position
- Anthony Tucker · Utah State 2021-2022 · him DC, Position, them OC, Position
- Blake Anderson* · Utah State 2021-2022 · him DC, Position, them Head coach