Post Pro-football Career
In the 2006-2008 HS Football season Rison was assistant coach at Beecher High School. The head coach was Courtney Hawkins, Rison's former teammate at Michigan State.
In March 2010, Rison was named the new head coach for Flint Northwestern High School's football team.
For the opening week of the 2010 and 2011 high school football seasons, Rison and Flint Northwestern have faced off against Courtney Hawkins and Flint Beecher. Not only did these games showcase two former NFL players coaching at their alma maters, but the schools are so close geographically that it made for an intriguing and intense rivalry. The crowds came in large numbers for both games, which forced each game to Flint's 11,000 seat Atwood Stadium, instead of Flint Beecher's Russ Reynolds Field, or Flint Northwestern's Guy V. Houston Stadium. Beecher won the 2010 opener, 28-18, spoiling Rison's head coaching debut. The 2011 opener was a thriller, with Northwestern holding on for a 46-44 double overtime victory. In two years at Flint Northwestern, Rison's coaching record was only 2-16, but the team showed noticeable improvement in his second season, nearly doubling their offensive output, and losing four of their game by a combined total of only nine points. In May of 2012, Rison announced that he was leaving Flint Northwestern in order to complete his degree at Michigan State and join the football team as an assistant coach.
Rison also trains wide receivers at the Andre Rison Football Academy. Rison also coached in the 2008 Hawaii All-Star Classic. Rison has also recently appeared on an episode of the MTV reality show Made. He worked to help a student become a high school varsity quarterback. Rison was a featured Pro on the second season of the reality show Pros vs. Joes on Spike TV, and also appeared in an episode of TNA Impact (now called Impact Wrestling). He was at the center of the hexagonal ring, and then Abyss came out and Black Hole slammed Rison.
Rison appears prominently in the 2012 film 'Broke' about former professional athletes who squander their wealth. The film, directed and written by Billy Corben of Rakontur, was featured at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival as part of its TFF/ESPN Sports Festival, and is included in the second season (styled as "Volume II") of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series.
On July 9, 2012 Rison was sentenced in federal court to five years' probation and required to pay more than $300,000 in restitution for failure to pay child support. Rison was convicted for failing to pay more than $10,000 of child support between August 2008 and August 2011. In addition to the penalties for past due payments, and as a condition of his probation, Rison is expected to continue monthly child support payments of close to $2,350 per month.
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