LEXINGTON, Ky. — If you are Jason Candle, where do you go from here?
I don’t say that because the Toledo football team’s 38-24 loss to Kentucky was a setback on its face. It wasn’t.
The Rockets are a fine team, and that opinion doesn’t change after they held their own on a microwaved day against a bigger, deeper team from the SEC, playing the Wildcats within a touchdown for more than 50 minutes.
No, here’s what I wonder: What does Candle do with his quarterback?
As a dazed Mitch Guadagni lay on the turf after his 14th and final run midway through the third quarter — his helmet heaven knows where after a vicious hit sent it flying — it was impossible not to puzzle over the future of a talent as gifted as he is star-crossed.