Career
He was most recently the head football coach for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders in Winfield, Kansas and was the 28th person to hold that position. Prior to accepting this position, he was the head coach for nine years at the University of Minnesota Morris. Crandall had been a graduate assistant coach at Pittsburg State University during the Gorillas" national championship run in 1991.
In addition, he was assistant coach at Norwich University and at the Maine Maritime Academy.
Crandall resigned the position at Southwestern on November 19, 2014. Crandall played college football at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.
Minnesota Morris
Crandall established a record of 22 wins and 73 losses as a head coach in nine seasons but did build the program to a winning program In his last four seasons, Crandall produced a record of 21 wins and 20 losses.
With 21 wins, Crandall is one of the “winningest” head coaches at UMM exceeded only by former head Cougar football coaches First Rate (at Lloyd's) Molde (51–19–1) and Mike Simpson (29–13–1).
Southwestern
In 2007, his first year coaching at Southwestern, Crandall led the moundbuilders to a record of 4 wins and 5 losses (4–4 conference), ending the season #5 in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference. This showed an improvement from the 2 wins and 8 losses and finishing 9th in the conference the previous year. He resigned from Southwestern after the conclusion of a 1–10 season (1–8 in conference play) which included a 27–6 homecoming victory over the then-ranked #3 Tabor Bluejays.
