UConn Announces Jason Candle as New Head Football Coach (Updated)

[Milo65]

 

[HuskyNan]

Number 79 overall; UConn at 111

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[Kolumbo]

Bring some players with you. You don’t just recruit a coach, you recruit a team.

That would be a plus even though I am not a big fan of leaving the other team in the lurch. Coach Candle can recruit, we know that. I'm hopeful he can work the portal and I'd rather him find some established players from other programs, especially from the P4.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Number 79 overall; UConn at 111

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There was a time before the transfer portal, this meant something. Now? Outside 5-star recruits, I pay almost no attention to the recruiting rankings.

 

[RitzLuce1]

Announced on the UConn accounts.

 

[huskymedic]

Can't we get a tweet saying that he IS UConn's new coach, instead of "expected"?

Rest easy @jostar1…

UConn Announces Jason Candle as New Head Football Coach - University of Connecticut Athletics

STORRS, CT – Jason Candle has been named the next head football coach at the University of Connecticut, as announced by director of athletics David Benedict ...

uconnhuskies.com

-> "I am honored to be named the head football coach at the University of Connecticut," stated Candle. "UConn is a prestigious institution and I'm grateful to David Benedict and the leadership team for entrusting me with this opportunity. Nicole, Avery, Cameron, Colton, and I are excited to join the Husky family and become part of the Storrs community. UConn has all the ingredients for success—outstanding facilities, passionate fans, and a commitment to excellence. I look forward to building on the incredible momentum here and developing a program that builds young men of character and makes our fans and alumni proud. I can't wait to get to work with our student-athletes and staff. Let's go Huskies!" <-

 

[drayenob]

UConn Football Hires Jason Candle as Next Head Coach

Candle has been in charge at Toledo since 2016, winning 36 games over the last four seasons.

storrscentral.com

 

[Palatine]

 

[J187Money]

Well done DB!! Let’s GO!

 

[baileyhuski]

Candle is an incredibly consistent head coach, the floor at Connecticut has been raised, Candle should at the absolute worst consistently get us into a bowl game, and we should be on the same trajectory we were on with Mora, we have one of the best ADs in the sport, good job.

 

[Kolumbo]

2026 Recruiting Rankings - should be interesting to follow over the next few weeks

247
#71 Toledo - 22 commits
#138 UConn - 6 commits

Rivals
#77 Toledo - 24 recruits
#140 UConn - 4 recruits

 

[Stinger92860]

Sorry - I am reposting my post from the other thread since that thread was just closed.

What a week. This is a great morning, let's freakin go UConn nation. Mora did amazing things for us, but he didn't quite have his heart in Huskyland. AD David Benedict probably grew tired of the ever increasing Mora maintenance and so he slow played the CSU counter and rolled the dice. But the dice AD David Benedict threw were loaded, he knew this time around we'd have options. Well played AD David Benedict.

My guess is that this more than just a guess from you. Thanks for the info!! I am pumped.

 

[JakeTheDog]

Last time we hired a JC that turned out okay.

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[uconndogs]

Would love for him to real some of our kids in the portal, not the least of which are two big and really good OTs.

 

[psilotic]

couple of nuggets: Toledo 3rd total defense (!) 32nd total offense .... mcmurphy had us playing toledo in gasparilla. would be surprised if that matchup happened

 

[greenday61892]

I'm so excited about this hire! Well done to DB, knocking it out of the park yet again

 

[king conn]

Darn now I cant hate Sirianni anymore. Oh well

 

[FairwayFlyer]

We got paid $1.5 million to upgrade our head coach

 

[superjohn]

UConn dropped the ball from 2003-2016 but they got it right with Dave Benedict, we're lucky to have him and welcome aboard Coach Candle.

 

[Scrutineer]

This tweet might even be more important than the Candle tweets. A guy that covers college football for something called the "NIL Wire" mentioning that UConn is increasing our NIL pool and revenue share yet again, on top of a robust salary pool for staff.

I don't know much about Candle other than what I've read over the last 48 hours, admittedly. But if he's as solid as coach and recruiter as I've heard, and if he has the resources to do it even better now, we're gonna punch some people in the mouth

I liked Cahill's trajectory and Huff's resume a little better but he sounds like a solid hire and hopefully we'll find Mora can't hold a Candle to him.

As to Cahill and Huff, I have to admit I thought we made a mistake hiring Jim Calhoun instead of Mitch Buonaguro........😎

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[ZooCougar]

Great day for UConn and UConn Football.

 

[jmsjoejms]

PP - Hated this hire
BD - Loved this hire
RE2.0 - Liked this hire
JM - Liked this hire
JC - Love this hire

Batting .500 and am confident it will improve with Coach Candle

 

[Tm203]

Does getting coach Candle come with getting the Italian Bowl??? If so this is an absolute win!

 

[Bongo Fury]

Following that I feel bad for wanting him to bring Toledo players over

 

[rich1122]

Now can we hire an OC that can drag his QB along with him like Charleton did?

I think that spend the money elsewhere. We have no idea what we had on the bench.

I like Ferrar.

 

[HailUConn]

Wow, Coach Candle did not lose a single player to the portal last year --

I'm sold. top flight job by AD David Benedict again, DB deserves a statue in Storrs