Key Notes

• Joined the Browns as safeties coach in 2023 following 11 years coaching on the college level.
• Name is pronounced EF-rum BON-duh.
• Helped his teams to a bowl game during each of his 11 seasons coaching college football.

Key Notes

• Joined the Browns as safeties coach in 2023 following 11 years coaching on the college level.
• Name is pronounced EF-rum BON-duh.
• Helped his teams to a bowl game during each of his 11 seasons coaching college football.
• Spent two seasons (2021-22) as Utah State's defensive coordinator and safeties coach. Helped the Aggies tie a school record with 11 wins in 2021, including capturing the school's first Mountain West Championship.
• Prior to Utah State, spent five seasons (2016-20) at the University of Miami. Spent his first three seasons (2016-18) as safeties coach before serving as co-defensive coordinator/safeties coach from 2019-20. During his tenure at Miami, he coached five defensive backs that went on to the NFL in Jamal Carter (Atlanta Falcons), Adrian Colbert (New York Giants), Rayshawn Jenkins (Los Angeles Chargers), Jaquan Johnson (Buffalo Bills) and Sheldrick Redwine (Cleveland Browns). In his last two recruiting cycles at Miami, Banda landed the No. 1-ranked safety in the nation and was named one of the top-25 recruiters in the country by Rivals.com.
• Served as a defensive assistant at Mississippi State in 2015, helping the Bulldogs to a 9-4 record.
• Spent three seasons (2012-14) as a defensive graduate assistant at Texas. Coached future first-round NFL Draft pick Kenny Vaccaro (Tennessee Titans), along with two other future NFL players in Quandre Diggs (Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks) and Adrian Phillips (San Diego Chargers).
• Earned undergraduate degree in sports management from Incarnate Word in 2011 and his master's degree in communications from Texas in 2014. Banda and his wife, Crystal, have a son, Darian, and a daughter, Aamani.