Sport(s) Football 1998–1999 Geneva Position(s) Wide receiver Title Head coach Team Toledo Rockets football | Record 10–4 2000–2001 Mount Union 2003–2006 Mount Union (WR) Conference Mid-American Conference | |
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Born November 12, 1979 (age 37)
Salem, Ohio ( 1979-11-12 ) Spouse Nicole Hackbarth (m. 2014) Team coached Toledo Rockets football (Head coach, since 2015) Similar Matt Campbell, Scott Satterfield, Mike Jinks, Jon Heacock, Nick Saban | ||
Jason Tyler Candle (born November 12, 1979) is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at the University of Toledo. He had been an assistant at Toledo since 2009, and at Mount Union before that. Candle played wide receiver at Mount Union and Geneva.
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Playing career
Candle was born in Salem, Ohio. He played wide receiver, first at Geneva College (1998–1999) and then at Mount Union (2000–2001). Both Mount Union teams he played on won the Division III championship. Candle graduated from Mount Union in 2003.
Coaching career
After graduating Candle stayed on at Mount Union and joined the coaching staff as the wide receivers coach, a job he held from 2003–2006. In 2007 Mount Union promoted him to offensive coordinator, replacing Matt Campbell, who had joined the staff at Bowling Green.
Toledo
Candle left Mount Union in 2009 to become slot receivers/tight ends coach at Toledo under Tim Beckman. He was reunited there with Campbell, then serving as run game coordinator. Toledo promoted Candle to wide receivers coach in 2010, where he coached All-American Eric Page. Toledo promoted Campbell to head coach at the end of 2011 after Beckman became head coach at the University of Illinois. Campbell retained Candle and promoted him to offensive coordinator. Candle added the title of associate head coach in 2014.
Toledo named Candle head coach on December 2, 2015, after Campbell departed for Iowa State University.
