Only a guy like Gene Krieger can come to Hawaii and think of it as a “cold market,” which, when you learn his past, makes sense.
His career having been divided between coaching volleyball and selling insurance and real estate and, Krieger, the incoming UHH women’s volleyball coach — succeeding Tino Reyes, dismissed after seven years — is a salesman at heart, owing to the jobs he had to afford college educations for his daughters.
“At some point it’s about selling yourself, selling the program,” Krieger, said Thursday. “I had to get out of coaching to make six figures for a while to afford college for my daughters, and I always thought I could use what I learned in sales to further my career.