Ricky Rahne was supposed to be preparing Old Dominion football for his first spring practices and adjusting to his new home with his family.



Instead, the Rahnes are still living in State College, Pa.. The former Penn State offensive coordinator is doing as much remote football work as he can for ODU, but he’s also helping teach his sons their school curriculum with his wife, Jennifer.



“They were actually supposed to move down to Virginia (by now),” Rahne said of his family. “Obviously, that’s been changed. So I’m still here, but I’m gonna go kind of back and forth a little bit.”



Rahne is one of a handful of first-year head coaches who won’t get spring practice, missing out on a key time for installation and evaluation of the current roster. For a long time, Rahne wasn’t looking to be a head coach. But last summer, he decided it was time to start. He landed the ODU job, but now a lot of those head...