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Waking Up From A Dream
Rick earned a gross average of $15,000 as assistant coach and defensive coordinator. With his then wife going on maternity leave, supporting the family would be an impossibility unless he opt to use his experience and credentials to earn more albeit turning away from what he loved doing. Rick ultimately chose selling for television despite it being a road, to him, less traveled.
"I never really thought of myself as a sales person but I knew if I ever transitioned into business I'd have to think in terms of probably selling something," he said. "And honestly, television just seemed better than insurance or sporting goods with all due respect to those two professions."
"I had known coaches who had done that and kind of ran back to coaching, and TV was just one of those things that they said, "Well you know that you can sell sports." It's just what was available at the time through a series of circumstances and I didn't have to leave Hawaii and really quite honestly I didn't know what I was getting into."
A Difficult Transition
Rick had his share of public visibility as coach for UH, making the career transition even harder especially that he had to start from scratch in an industry he barely even knew. Being in a competitive industry with equally competitive players, Rick dauntingly tried to keep up and stay leveled with his colleagues.
"(KGMB) was highly competitive and the station was dominant so they had very strong people in there and accomplishing their careers. I tried to learn all of that on the run, try to stay up with them, so I could make a contribution and not fail at it," Rick said. "My day to day was very different, from the standpoint of what I used to do as an assistant football coach to what I was doing as a sales person."
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