http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-11-11-rutenberg-feature_N.htm Clean-cut and well-organized, New Mexico State assistant football coach Mike Rutenberg has earned the nickname “Stockbroker.” In many ways, it fits. Rutenberg is a Cornell University graduate, like his parents. His workdays start early and end late. His desk is lined with Post-it Notes, many tracking numbers and trends. Rutenberg’s paycheck from the Aggies, however, is where the similarities end. He makes $30,000 a year. Rutenberg puts in about 112 hours a week during the season, which works out to $5.58 an hour — nearly two dollars less than New Mexico’s minimum wage. His annual salary is $7,402 less than the median household income in Las Cruces as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau. None of New Mexico State’s assistants make more than the average tenured professor at the school ($78,300, according to the most recent American Association of University Professors salary survey).
You mean the 3-6 WAC powerhouse Aggies? I am shocked, SHOCKED.
Well, there goes any shot at his $2,000 bowl bonus
He should travel down the road and become the new women’s soccer coach for the New Mexico Lobos.
Why the f he is working there then? Should start looking for better job.
How do you put in 112 hours/week on football alone? I can understand studying film. Writing/analyzing plays…but I cannot see 112 hours worth. Even if he watched every game his team played last season every week tip-to-tip he still would have time left over for something.
112 hours a week during the season is probably inflated. I bet it includes travel time and is averaged out with the days in which the hours are more normal. For instance, if I spend 48 hours during the weekend travelling to an away game, technically, I can log all those 48 hours as work time. Plus, football season is only a fraction of the entire year. Anyway, he’s on a one-year contract, so he will probably get promoted or find another job soon.
112/7 = 16 hrs everyday. Does it count working in dreams too?
His daily schedule is included as a sidebar to the article.
Also, apparently stockbrokers work 112 hour weeks. This is news to me as well.
does watching cnbc and reading the wsj count as work?
MattLikesAnalysis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > does watching cnbc and reading the wsj count as > work? I read WSJ while taking the browns to the super bowl…Work?
Yeah probably this guy includes his goose-choking breaks as coaching hours too.
^ I only thought that was Soppi
nuppal Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you put in 112 hours/week on football > alone? I can understand studying film. > Writing/analyzing plays…but I cannot see 112 > hours worth. Even if he watched every game his > team played last season every week tip-to-tip he > still would have time left over for something. Easy, recruiting. Especially at a non-marquis school, you have to look through an insane amount of tape to find good prospects who the big teams missed out on. Then when you do find a player worth showing your coach, you have to make a highlight reel that best shows off each player’s strengths and weaknesses. Typically, a D-IA school brings in 20-25 freshman a year, so if that’s 25% of the kids on your teams watch list and you put half of the kids you make highlight reals for on your watchlist, you’re talking 200 tapes. Add organizing game film so coaches and players can see what they need to see quickly and efficiently and you’re at 120 hours easily.
This is how you differenciate yourself in a crowded field. You are not working those 120 hours for the pay you are getting this yr. You are creating a resume that surpasses everyone else and gets you the next job, then the next one, then the next one, pretty soon you are interviewing to take over the Detroit loins saying Oh god I really dont want this job.
ahahah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > nuppal Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > How do you put in 112 hours/week on football > > alone? I can understand studying film. > > Writing/analyzing plays…but I cannot see 112 > > hours worth. Even if he watched every game his > > team played last season every week tip-to-tip > he > > still would have time left over for something. > > > Easy, recruiting. Especially at a non-marquis > school, you have to look through an insane amount > of tape to find good prospects who the big teams > missed out on. Then when you do find a player > worth showing your coach, you have to make a > highlight reel that best shows off each player’s > strengths and weaknesses. Typically, a D-IA > school brings in 20-25 freshman a year, so if > that’s 25% of the kids on your teams watch list > and you put half of the kids you make highlight > reals for on your watchlist, you’re talking 200 > tapes. Add organizing game film so coaches and > players can see what they need to see quickly and > efficiently and you’re at 120 hours easily. Learn something new everyday. Makes sense.