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Ricky Rahne

2020-2025Old Dominion

One defining program at Old Dominion.

Ricky Rahne coached 6 seasons, won 40.0%, and posted an average SRS of -4.6. Best season: 2025 Old Dominion. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
20-30
Career win rate
40.0%
Average SRS
-4.6
Peak SRS
6.1

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
6
Career span
6 years
Best finish
Consistency
58.5

Primary school anchor

Old Dominion

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 51.0.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Ricky Rahne
EliteStrongAverageLean
2020Actual season year • SRS range -9.6 to 6.12025

Active comparison point

Ricky Rahne2025

Selected

2025 Old Dominion

Best seasonBiggest improvement

0-0 • SRS 6.1 • SP Overall 5.9

Win %

YoY SRS

+7.7

SP Off / Def

31.6 / 23.7

Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games
0
Win rate

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results2
2023 Regular Week 11Old DominionLiberty#25L10-38
2023 Regular Week 9Old DominionJames Madison#25L27-30

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Old Dominion

2020-20256 seasons

Avg SRS -4.6 • Win % 40.0%

Longest tenure
Old Dominion • 6 seasons
Best tenure
Old Dominion • -4.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Old Dominion • 40.0%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Ricky Rahne sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Ricky Rahne sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Ricky Rahne

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-6.1
Percentile
38th pct

Lower end

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Old Dominion

2020-202520-30

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -4.6Win % 40.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

3.3 during vs 5.0 baseline

-1.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-4.6 during vs -17.0 baseline

+12.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-6.1 during vs -14.2 baseline

+8.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Old Dominion 2025

0-0SRS 6.1

Biggest Improvement

Old Dominion 2025

0-07.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Old Dominion 2025

0-0SP Off 31.6

Best Defensive Season

Old Dominion 2025

0-0SP Def 23.7

Setbacks

Worst Season

Old Dominion 2022

3-9SRS -9.6

Biggest Drop

Old Dominion 2022

3-9-0.4 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Old Dominion202500006.15.931.623.7+7.7
Old Dominion20241257041.7%-1.6-6.025.731.3+7.1-4.5%
Old Dominion20231367046.2%-8.7-10.123.131.3+0.9+21.1%
Old Dominion20221239025.0%-9.6-13.016.929.3-0.4-21.1%
Old Dominion20211367046.2%-9.2-7.421.228.0
Old Dominion20200000

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