Career

His career coaching record at Western Illinois was 41 wins, 35 losses, and 1 tie. This ranks him fourth at Western Illinois in total wins and eighth at Western Illinois in winning percentage. Craddock died on February 22, 1990, aged 46, after a 10-month battle against cancer in a Macomb, Illinois hospital.

Physicians linked the cancer to his exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, where he was a Marine captain from 1967 to 1970.