When Ikaika Malloe was hired as the Huskies’ defensive line coach in December, one of the first people to call and congratulate him was Randy Hart.
“The nation won’t understand just how many lives that guy has touched,” Malloe said Tuesday. “He really changed our lives. There were things that were way more important than football for him.”
Hart, 67, announced his retirement on Tuesday after 46 years a full-time coach, including 21 seasons as a defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Washington, one of the longest coaching stints in UW history.
At UW, Hart coached some of the most feared defenses in Pac-12 history, molding the likes of Steve Emtman, D’Marco Farr and Larry Tripplett and many more, and helping the Huskies to four Rose Bowls from 1988-2008.