At the end of his whirlwind first day as the new University of Toledo football coach, Jason Candle sat down to dinner with his wife, Nicole.
They had finally stolen a moment to celebrate the good tidings.
Then the phone rang.
It was Zachary Ford, a high school defensive back from Cleveland and a UT commit. He wanted to say hi … and bye.
“He’s telling me he’s going to decommit and go somewhere else,” Candle said. “I got a head coaching job and lost a recruit all in the same day.”
Eight years later, the coach and player smiled at the memory.