Winter 2011/2012 - Tiffin University

John RiniHometown Chagrin Falls, Ohio; now lives in Hudson, Ohio Class Year 2011Degree Completing Master of Business Administration (Concentration in Sport Management)John Rini watches the Cleveland Brown’games on an eight-inch monitor – just afew feet behind the Brown’s bench.Rini, who coached wide receivers in2009 and linebackers in 2010 as a graduateassistant at Tiffin University, is alsoworking on his final class online to finishan MBA at Tiffin University. But duringA minute with John ...What did you always want to bewhen you grew up?A broadcasterWho is your favorite songwriter?Lil WayneWho would you like to spend anafternoon with? Bill ClintonBest Experience? I lived inCosta Rica for a month.the NFL season, he is a video intern withthe Cleveland Browns.The eight-inch monitor he watchesrecords images of player positioningfrom a sideline camera and an end zonecamera and is connected to a printer.So if you see Colt McCoy or any of theBrowns looking at still pictures after theycome off the field, Rini has providedthem with those pictures.His job is another step in a footballjourney that started as a student assistantat Ashland University and woundup five years later as video coordinatorfor Ashland. He was hired as a graduateassistant at Tiffin, and after thosetwo years, learned that Cleveland waslooking for video assistance. Rini wasoffered the job, which also includes filmingthe practice sessions at the Bereatraining complex.John RiniWith the extensive footballbackground, and the MBA soon to becompleted at TU, his hope is to continuein football coaching at some level. If thefootball openings do not develop, hewill be able to fall back on the MBA andenter business.42 | WINTER 2011 / 12 | CHALLENGE