From players to coaches
Kramer and Davis adjust to new roles
By Megan Baker
Last Updated:6:31 PM EST 4/22/09 Section: Fisher through the years
He holds Fisher football's single season record for passing yards. She started in all 72 games during her four-year career. Those are some pretty good credentials for a couple of coaches on the Fisher staff.
Rob Kramer, former quarterback for the Fisher football team, and Dani Davis, former midfielder for the Fisher soccer team, came back in the fall despite having graduated in the spring. But this time it wasn't to play; it was to coach their former teammates.
Kramer and Davis work with the coaching staffs of their respective teams to train the players, do recruiting work and much, much more. In return for their hard work, the two are earning their MBA's at no cost, along with a modest living stipend. But it isn't only the free tuition that attracted them to stay. It was the opportunity to be around the game they have loved for most of their lives.
"When I graduated I wasn't ready to leave the whole college football atmosphere," Kramer, staff associate and quarterback coach for the football team, said. "Vos [head coach of the football team] gave me an opportunity to stick with it."
Davis, assistant coach of the women's soccer team and head coach of the women's junior varsity soccer program, agreed.
"The best part is I get to stay connected to both the game and to the team. The older you get its hard to find teams to play for, so this is a great way for me to keep soccer in my life," she said.
But it's not all fun and games for these coaches. During the season (and a lot of times out of season as well) the two are working 40 plus hour weeks.
"He's like a fulltime football coach. He trains the quarterbacks, does recruiting; he's an underpaid fulltime person," Paul Vosburgh, head coach of the football team, said of Kramer. "He earns what he's getting, he probably deserves more than what he's getting."
While Kramer thoroughly enjoys what he does, he thinks a lot of people don't fully understand the magnitude of responsibility that comes with the job.
Rob Kramer, former quarterback for the Fisher football team, and Dani Davis, former midfielder for the Fisher soccer team, came back in the fall despite having graduated in the spring. But this time it wasn't to play; it was to coach their former teammates.
Kramer and Davis work with the coaching staffs of their respective teams to train the players, do recruiting work and much, much more. In return for their hard work, the two are earning their MBA's at no cost, along with a modest living stipend. But it isn't only the free tuition that attracted them to stay. It was the opportunity to be around the game they have loved for most of their lives.
"When I graduated I wasn't ready to leave the whole college football atmosphere," Kramer, staff associate and quarterback coach for the football team, said. "Vos [head coach of the football team] gave me an opportunity to stick with it."
Davis, assistant coach of the women's soccer team and head coach of the women's junior varsity soccer program, agreed.
"The best part is I get to stay connected to both the game and to the team. The older you get its hard to find teams to play for, so this is a great way for me to keep soccer in my life," she said.
But it's not all fun and games for these coaches. During the season (and a lot of times out of season as well) the two are working 40 plus hour weeks.
"He's like a fulltime football coach. He trains the quarterbacks, does recruiting; he's an underpaid fulltime person," Paul Vosburgh, head coach of the football team, said of Kramer. "He earns what he's getting, he probably deserves more than what he's getting."
While Kramer thoroughly enjoys what he does, he thinks a lot of people don't fully understand the magnitude of responsibility that comes with the job.
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