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(12-03-2017 08:23 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  I’m not sold on Candle. Ohio U made them look like they spent the week preparing for that game by doing bong hits and eating choco-tacos. He looked like a doe in headlights all game.

Context goes a long way to understand that game. They were down 3 OLmen that game, two of whom were replaced by freshmen (one of those freshmen being a walk-on) due to injury against the best DL in the MAC, had lost their leading receiver to a season ending injury the week prior, and were playing OU on a short week and OU had three extra days to prepare.

I've been on record here many times saying that Candle would be a great hire anywhere, but I'm not so sure about him going to a FL school, since he literally hasn't left Northern Ohio since he was born (played at Mount Union, coached there then Toledo). He is a hell of a recruiter though, and I think one of the more brilliantly unrecognized offensive minds in college football...he was the guy driving the bus Campbell's last two years at UT and he developed Logan Woodside (a 1* QB from backwoods Kentucky) into one of the best QB's in the country.