MOBILE, Ala. — Fresh off a big season, Toledo football coach Jason Candle could have taken the first flight out of town, not the one carrying the Rockets here for the Dollar General Bowl.
Isn’t that the deal in the Mid-American Conference?
Hi, then bye.
All you could have done was wish Candle the best.
Instead, for Toledo fans used to watching their coaches leave short of the league mountaintop, the one who finally shepherded them there has proved a welcome exception.
“Sometimes, as you look across the country,” Candle said, “the grass isn’t always greener.