Robert Rubel is an American football coach. He was the former head football coach at Robinson High School in Robinson, Texas, a position he has held from 2020 up until 2021. Rubel served as the head football coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas for one season, in 2006. Rubel had interviewed for the head position at Texas A&M University–Kingsville, considered to be one of the more prestigious coaching opportunities in NCAA Division II and was asked by the Tabor administration not to return. In his one season as head coach, the team accomplished a record of 6–4. Rubel was only the second coach in school history to have a winning record in his first season.