Bret Bloomquist of the El Paso Times reports that former Tennessee quarterbacks coach Mike Canales will be UTEP’s next offensive coordinator.
Mike Canales set to become offensive coordinator at UTEP. Was at Tennessee this past year, back in the day was co-offensive coordinator with Dana Dimel at Arizona
— Bretbloomquist (@Bretbloomquist) December 9, 2017
As Bret mentions, the obvious connection is from their time at Arizona, Canales last OC job was from 2010-15 at North Texas where he was also the interim head coach twice while at North Texas.