The job for Cal Lutheran’s running backs coach was listed on FootballScoop. Phil Rauscher applied for the opening at the Division III school in 2014. The man making the hire thought he was overqualified for the position that paid $5,000 considering Rauscher had spent the past three seasons coaching tight ends at Hawaii and Utah. “I got him sort of at a crossroads of his coaching career,” Ben McEnroe, Cal Lutheran’s coach from 2007-2020, said last week. “He was sort of contemplating the direction he was going to go with coaching.” Rauscher, who wasn’t retained in his previous job at Hawaii where he also was recruiting coordinator, joined the staff but to coach the offensive line for the...
