Temple 24, Eastern Michigan 12: I’ll take it


A crowd about this size watched at EMU Saturday.

I never want to hear anything about Temple’s attendance again. Compared to Eastern Michigan and Kent State and some of these MAC teams, Temple is like the Red Sox in attracting fans.

By Mike Gibson
I entered this season not knowing if I’m more of a perfectionist or a bottom-line guy.
After Villanova, I decided I was a bottom-line guy.
I didn’t care how we got it done, just get it done.
Get ‘er done.
Win.
The perfectionist in me didn’t like today’s 24-12 win over Eastern Michigan.
When we had a first down on the other guy’s 3 with a 24-6 lead, and you have a back who gained 180 yards and you abandon the run for a silly pass, that’s just bad decision-making.
You run your horse behind your big offensive line a couple of times.
Chances are the guy’s going to score.
Clint Eastwood the m-fers.
Step on the freaking guy’s throat and say, “I’ve got four chances to blow your brains out with Bernard Pierce. Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?”
I’m about thisclose to pulling the red shirt off of Chris Coyer.
Thisclose.
We are getting no plays out of the quarterback position or at least not enough to win the amount of games we need to win.
I see true freshmen making plays all over the place at quarterback every Saturday. If we’ve got a playmaker on the bench, use him. We need more out of Vaughn. I’m going to chalk Saturday up to that 20 mph wind. At least I hope that’s what the problem was, but we were 6 for 17 out of that position a week ago, too, with no wind.
Now get out of here, perfectionist.
WE WON!!!!!!
Since I blamed Al Golden for the Villanova loss (and I still do), I will be fair here.
AL GOLDEN WON, TOO!!!!
Good job, Al.
I’ll take it.
The hardest thing to do is win in big-time college football.
I don’t care if you are playing in The Big House in front of 106,000 people against Michigan or in front of 3,364 in The Little House in Ypsilanti.
That’s right. Three-thousand, three hundred and sixty four.
That’s the announced crowd.

Step on the freaking guy’s throat and say, “I’ve got four chances to blow your brains out with Bernard Pierce. Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?”


Eastern Michigan couldn’t fake it because the NCAA would be able to review the film and count them in about 10 minutes.
I never want to hear anything about Temple’s attendance again.
Compared to Eastern Michigan and Kent State and some of these MAC teams, Temple is like the Red Sox in attracting fans.
Temple is in the upper echelon of attendance and will remain so if the system (i.e., consistent winning) remains in place.
I’d like to see all of our Prodigal Son fans return for the Ball State game this Saturday and the Army game in two weeks.
I know it won’t happen, though, because the loss to Nova ruined our season from an attendance perspective. I don’t agree with the fans who were so disgusted they told me they won’t be back the rest of this year, but I can see that they didn’t appreciate that Golden left them open for some needless ball-busting from total assholes for 12 months so I understand their position.
Still, this team deserves your and my support and it will need a significant home field advantage to beat Ball State and Army.
Ticket sales for the Army game among TEMPLE fans are brisk and Temple should draw at least 25,000 for that game.
Let’s make it a fun house for us and a house of horrors for them.
That’s the bottom line right there and since I’ve now become a fully committed bottom-line guy, that’s really all that matters.

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6 thoughts on “Temple 24, Eastern Michigan 12: I’ll take it

  1. Well said, Mike. Those fans who are abandoning after 'Nova are frauds. I was there with Shane and Mike (you know those guys from way back) and yeah, we were pissed. But you know what?– you move on. And that's what we've done. Convincing W over Buffalo, nice W over E-Mich today. You take em where you can get em. Four wins away from a possible Bowl game and if we can win the MAC we'll get a great Bowl game. Fans SHOULD NOT give up on this team. Pierce is the real deal. We've got this kid from down my way in DC named Conor Reilly QB who's coming next year – nice arm. Golden's turning this thing around just fine. This team's learning how to WIN the close ones sted of lose em. I'll bet we beat Navy.

  2. Hmm. Navy is the best team left on the sked. If we beat them, we could run the table. One thing I disagree with you is. We are five games, not four, from a bowl.No bowl, none, nowhere, nohow, is going to take a six-win Temple team that lost to a 1AA team. That's why Golden must get to seven. Seven. Beating Penn State and running the table is preferable. You seem to know D.C. football. How good are Gilman and Dunbar?

  3. Whoops, I mean beating Navy. Wishful thinking about PSU. If we had beat Penn State, we would have had 40K for Buffalo and I'm serious as a heart attack.

  4. With last year’s underachievement (last year was suppose to be the breakout year) and the Villanova debacle, I’m not ready to let Golden and the coaching staff off the hook. This is a weak schedule and Temple needs to run the table as far as I’m concerned to get back on my good graces. They almost had me with the best quarter of football that I could remember from a Temple football team. But they lost the last three quarters. I blame the coaching staff for Charlton’s timid performances. One thing Charlton has always done well was throw the long pass. Now he’s having problems doing that. Temple is going to need a more balanced offense if they are going to run the table. The defense still looks susceptible to the pass. In addition, EMU made all the positive adjustments in the second half. Finally, special teams sucked. Buffalo’s special teams are awful, but now I’m beginning to believe that they were even worse then what I originally thought.

  5. Gilman and Dunbar are Baltimore football. Don't know.DC football is ruled at this juncture by DeMatha and Good Counsel as clearly the two best teams in the area. Wise in PG county also excellent, as is River Hill in Howard County and Westlake in So. Maryland

  6. d.c., baltimore, close enough to be the same to me although i know they aren't the same to folks down there.

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