| Mike Canales | |
| Current Title: | Offensive coordinator & quarterbacks coach |
| Current Team: | Southeastern |
| Current Conference: | TSC |
| Birth Date: | June 21, 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Coronado, California, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1981–1983 |
| Player Team1: | Utah State |
| Player Positions: | Quarterback |
| Coach Years1: | 1985–1986 |
| Coach Team1: | BYU (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 1987–1994 |
| Coach Team2: | Snow (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years3: | 1995 |
| Coach Team3: | Pacific (CA) (QB) |
| Coach Years4: | 1996–2000 |
| Coach Team4: | South Florida (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years5: | 2001–2002 |
| Coach Team5: | NC State (PGC/QB) |
| Coach Years6: | 2003 |
| Coach Team6: | New York Jets (WR) |
| Coach Years7: | 2004–2005 |
| Coach Team7: | Arizona (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years8: | 2006 |
| Coach Team8: | Arizona (co-OC/QB) |
| Coach Years9: | 2007–2008 |
| Coach Team9: | South Florida (PGC/WR) |
| Coach Years10: | 2009 |
| Coach Team10: | South Florida (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years11: | 2010 |
| Coach Team11: | North Texas (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years12: | 2010 |
| Coach Team12: | North Texas (interim HC) |
| Coach Years13: | 2011–2015 |
| Coach Team13: | North Texas (AHC/OC/QB) |
| Coach Years14: | 2015 |
| Coach Team14: | North Texas (interim HC) |
| Coach Years15: | 2016 |
| Coach Team15: | Utah State (AHC/RB/TE) |
| Coach Years16: | 2017 |
| Coach Team16: | Tennessee (QB) |
| Coach Years17: | 2018–2020 |
| Coach Team17: | UTEP (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years18: | 2021 |
| Coach Team18: | Maryland (Analyst) |
| Coach Years19: | 2022 |
| Coach Team19: | Bethune-Cookman (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years20: | 2023–present |
| Coach Team20: | Southeastern (OC/QB) |
| Overall Record: | 3–9 |
Michael Sid Canales (born June 21, 1961) is an American football coach and former player. He is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Southeastern University, positions he has held since 2023. He previously was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the University of North Texas, a position he held from 2010 to 2015. He became the interim head coach of the Mean Green twice, after the firing of Todd Dodge in 2010 and Dan McCarney in 2015. After a brief stint with Utah State in 2016, he was named the quarterbacks coach at the University of Tennessee in January 2017, reuniting with offensive coordinator Larry Scott, with whom he worked while at the University of South Florida. From 2018 until 2020, Canales was the offensive coordinator at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Canales attended Utah State University, where he was a three-year starting quarterback on the football team.[1]
During the 2010 season at North Texas, he was promoted from offensive coordinator to interim head coach after the mid-season termination of his predecessor, Todd Dodge. North Texas averaged 33.8 points a game after Canales took over as head coach, after averaging 16.9 points in the first seven games of the season. Canales amassed a 2–3 record as the interim head coach of the Mean Green.
Despite North Texas players' support for Canales, the full-time head coaching position was awarded to former Iowa State head coach Dan McCarney.[2] McCarney retained Canales as offensive coordinator.
Canales took over again on an interim basis after McCarney was fired five games into the 2015 season, a stretch in which North Texas went 0-5. Following a 1-6 record in his second interim tenure, and athletic director Rick Villarreal announced Canales wouldn't return in any facet for the 2016 season.[3]
On January 19, 2017, Canales was hired as the quarterbacks coach at the University of Tennessee.[4]