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Weber State Basketball: Head coach Randy Rahe retires after 16-year career

By Joey Loose

Mar 18, 2016; St. Louis, MO, USA; Weber State Wildcats head coach Randy Rahe looks on during the first half of the game in the first round against the Xavier Musketeers in the 2016 NCAA Tournament at Scottrade Center. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 18, 2016; St. Louis, MO, USA; Weber State Wildcats head coach Randy Rahe looks on during the first half of the game in the first round against the Xavier Musketeers in the 2016 NCAA Tournament at Scottrade Center. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports /
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After a sixteen-year coaching career, Weber State Basketball head coach Randy Rahe announced his retirement, leaving one of the Big Sky’s best programs.

After a long and successful coaching career, Randy Rahe announced his retirement from coaching earlier this week, stepping aside after sixteen years as a collegiate head coach, spending it all at Weber State Basketball. Certainly one of the Big Sky’s greatest college basketball coaches, Rahe leaves behind quite a legacy with the Wildcats.

Rahe was a point guard at Buena Vista more than four decades ago before beginning his coaching career as a high school coach in Colorado. His collegiate career began in 1988 on the staff at Colorado College. Rahe would spend nearly two decades as a D1 assistant, bouncing around the rockies, with stints at Colorado and Denver before spending 13 years under Stew Morrill at Colorado State and Utah State. Rahe was an aide at Utah for two seasons before Weber State hired him in 2006.

The results were immediate, as Rahe led the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament in his first season. One of his first recruiting classes included unheralded prospects named Damian Lillard, and Rahe helped shape him into a future NBA star. The Wildcats made postseason appearances in seven of his first eight seasons at the helm, including four Big Sky regular-season titles during that stretch.

While the back half of his tenure was less successful on paper, he led Weber State to two more NCAA Tournaments. The Wildcats finished in the top 3 of the Big Sky in all but three of his sixteen seasons. He won nearly 20 games a season, highlighted by a 30-7 mark in 2013, boosted by a run to the CIT championship game.

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Weber State moved quickly in naming longtime assistant Eric Duft as the next head coach, a move that comes as no surprise to those around the Wildcats program. Navigating the Transfer Portal in the coming years may be a difficult task for a program like Weber State, but Rahe still left this program in solid shape. His legacy will be remembered for years to come, and this program is still set to compete for Big Sky titles on a regular basis.

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