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Robert G., Quakertown, 12/17/24 and Joe F., Philadelphia, 12/16/24.. thanks for taking some of the sting out of paying to fix this laptop. Much appreciated.
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Brian C., Philadelphia.
Anonymous, Anywhere USA (thanks for the generous donation), 9/2/24; David B., Delaware (8/24/24), thanks, David!) Ed P., Yardley, Pa. (6/20/24) …. thanks, Ed!!
David E., Philadelphia, Pa., 6/19/24 (thanks David); Zamani F., Philadelphia, Pa. June 7 (thanks, Z) Michael A., Havertown, Pa, May 9; John J., South Bloomingville, Ohio May 5; Hill Studios, Paulsboro, N.J. (thanks for breaking the longest time between contributions in TFF history), May 1, 2024 (the three May contributions will keep us afloat through the summer, thanks, Mike, John and Hill Studios it’s great to know people care); Jon E., Cincinnati, 10/11/23 (thanks, Jon); John from Landenburg at the Miami game (in the parking lot no less), 9/23/23. Thanks, John. Great conversation as always.
Two donations on opening day against Akron, one at the game from Ed of Perkasie and one from the greatest punter in Temple history, Eddie L., of the same hometown of Bruce Springsteen (our first contributions since April and they keep this site going; much appreciated); Heriberto S., McDonough, GA, 4/24/23 (thanks, Heriberto!!) Two on 4/14/23 (thanks to Joe F. and Ross M. ); Tom W., Palm Coast, Fla. 2/18/23 (thanks, Tom!!!)Ed P., Yardley, Pa. (1/9/23; thanks, Ed,) Lawrence S., West Chester, Pa., 12/28/22, our first contribution in over a month (thanks Larry, this will help in having to replace the printer we purchased in the summer that went on the fritz); Bob C., Chadds Ford, Pa., 11/27/22 (thanks Bob, our first contribution since September) Ed P., Perkasie, Pa. who donated 9/24/22 at the UMass game and Ed and I both remember and love Pennridge coach Wayne Helman; Joe S. (Delaware County), 9/3/22 (thanks Joe, hope to see you at Lafayette or RU); James G. (thanks James and for all the great posts you make on this site),, 7/29/22: Matt P. (former Al Golden player, thank you Matt for the generous donation it will be put to good use as we will explain in Monday’s post), 6/9/22; Matt F., Horsham, Pa. (thanks, Matt!!), June 6, 2022; David, B., Milton, DE (thanks, Dave), April 11, 2022: Andy B., Philadelphia, Pa. (our first donation of 2022, thanks Andy), March 3, 2022; Ed P., Yardley, Pa. 12/25/21 (thanks, Ed for the Christmas donation); Matt F., no hometown found (“a celebratory donation for Carey’s firing”), 11/30/21 thanks, Matt; Jon E., Cincinnati, Ohio, 11/29/21 (thanks, Jon for the donation and the great comments on this site); James G., Royersford, Pa. 11/28/21 (thanks, Jim, for the donations and your comments on the website); Anonymous (no home town given but donation really appreciated), 11/20/2021; Roger D., Rehoboth Beach,, Del., 10/24/21; Joe S., Drexel Hill, Pa. 10/3/21 (thanks, Joe) At the BC game (9/18), John from Landenburg (thanks, John for being a great friend of this site for so many years); Three Aug. 21 donations: Eric A (former player), Atlanta, Ga; Anonymous (by request), Cincinnati, Oh; Tim R., Buffalo, N.Y. (sincere thanks to all); David N., Silver Springs, Md (thanks Dave) 7/10/21; former Temple player Matt P., who lives in Columbus, GA now (thanks Matt) 7/9/21; Joe F., Philadelphia (4/7/11, thanks Joe) Matt F., Horsham, Pa., 3/27/21 (thanks, Matt); Jon E., Cincinnati, Ohio (1/31/21, thanks Jon) Ed P.,, Yardley, Pa. (thanks, Ed, much appredicated), 1/16/21; Mitchell S. , 12/21/20, our first contribution since (10/8) earlier, Former Owl Bruce G., Flourtown, Pa, who generously donated $100 in “honor” of the Ambler guy 10/8/20; (if they hate you in Ambler, we love you in Flortown,” BG says). Thanks, BG, we appreciate it; Earlier: James G., Philadelphia (7/21/20, thanks James) Robert B., Philadelphia (7/13/20, thanks, Bob, hope to see you at the tailgates again this fall); Previous: Jon E. from Cincinnati 6/15/20, our first donation this calendar year (thanks, Jon); Earlier, John from Landenberg; Kurt B., Wyomissing Hills, PA (former Temple player, 10-15-19) Earlier: David B. , Springfield, PA (9/26/19 … thanks, Dave!) also John from Landenberg (9/21/19); Tom W., Palm Coast, Fla. (8/22/19, thanks Tom!! Also, 10 days earlier, Bob. C and Joe S. and, on June 26, first bowl MVP Mark B.
Earlier: Matt F., Philadelphia; Matt P. (former Temple player) John from Landenberg and Jon E. from Cincinnati
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Temple Football Forever 
Somehow Chris Coyer AND Herbin managed to be mentioned…props Mike 😉
Predictions?
Temple 48
Del. St. 10
44-7 good guys
Rhule may be keeping a few cards up his sleeve.
judging from how vanilla the offense has been in the first two games, he’s got several decks up his sleeve by now.
I didn’t even realize we led the nation in turnover ratio after week 2…what a horribly coached team!
yeah, I’m sure matt rhule stepped in front of all those passes and picked up the fumbles. Geez, you don’t stop defending this guy, do you?
He’s certifiably insane to DEFEND A COACH WHO CAN’T SEE THE OBVIOUS!
Addazio knew what he was doing.
Rhule should be coaching East Stroudsburg.
I have to agree with Matthew Sell on this one. Last year this blog was full of comments blaming poor coaching for the lack of takeaways. Through 2 games this year the defense has 10 takeaways and scored two touchdowns and yet no one wants to give the coaching staff any credit. THis seems like a big contradiction to me.
This team is still poorly coached. During the Navy game, the coaches insisted upon running the hurry up offense even after four or five three and outs thereby putting a clearly tired defense back on the field too many times in less than two minutes, the passing scheme is non-existent, and there is no running game off or outside the tackles. A good team would have won by fifty at Vanderbilt given the number of times the Owls were inside the ten yard line. The read option is not aimed to get whomever is free in open field and that’s why their running game has been anemic. Can’t tell me that there is no back on this team that regularly can have 10 plus yard runs.
I also agree that rebroadcasting the press conferences is useless because you can’t hear the questioner or the question. It wouldn’t be too much trouble to set up a mike that could be handed to the reporter asking the question.
funny. … vandy win was devalued by vandy struggling to beat a UMass program which should be 10 years behind Temple’s. No one wants to see a well-coached Temple team more than I do and I hope I see one in the Uconn game. You could bring back Ron Dickerson and have Bobby Wallace and Jerry Berndt for coordinators and still beat Del State 44-7. Beating Uconn convincingly will finally convince me that Rhule is a good coach (and Uconn isn’t all that great so it must be by more than what Uconn beat Slippery Rock, err, Stony Brook) by. I would kill to have a younger Andy Talley coaching Temple (he beat Michael Nebrich and Fordham, by the way, 50-6 .. that’s what Rhule should have done to Fordham)
Win by 50 @ Vandy??? hahaha only you and Mike could find a way to complain about beating a SEC team by 30 on the road. Ole Miss only beat them by 38, so I guess they aren’t a good team either. You guys act like we are Alabama! I can’t wait to see what nonsense is posted next because it just keeps getting better and better!
Let me know when you wake up to the reality that we are, at best, a 6-6 middle tier AAC team with one of the youngest rosters in the country.
At this point, I’m going to wait and see what this teams record is on October, 12th. I agree that I was perplexed with the hurry up offense during the Navy game given that the D seemed gassed, then go into a super conservative offensive shell, with the same result, 3 and out. Granted, Vandy certainly looks like a bad team but I have my doubts as to whether last years team would have won that game.
Now, anything less than 4-1 after the first 5 games, then I have some concerns about this staff and the direction of the program. I’m a bit more familiar with UConn as I talk with a current players parent regularly about the team and conference. UConn has been described to me as a team with not great overall team speed and whose conditioning could be better. They are near the bottom of the rankings for most major offensive categories, especially total offense and scoring offense. Top running back averaging less than 4 yards a carry, and with Cochrane out at qb, Whitmer is only completing 49% of his passes.
Tulsa has a defense that ranks near the bottom of all FBS teams, total defense, rushing defense, scoring defense and passing yards allowed. Looks like their offense may have a passing attack but a lot of that may also be the result of of losing 2 games where their opponent scored 50 or more points and playing a 2 OT game for their only win. Even with that their qb has thrown multiple interceptions in all 3 games. So sorry for the long winded way to say that UConn and Tulsa are the level of AAC teams that we should expect Temple to be beating this year. Giving up a 21 point lead against UConn this year or losing to Tulsa on a “hail mary” pass is not acceptable. Now if you’re talking about a team like ECU or Cincinnati, right now all I look for is to be competitive against them.
agreed. del. state, tulsa, uconn and tulane must be all wins. the charge after that is to step up and “steal” one of the other games. Would Temple beat Akron by 21-3 or worse (which is what Penn State did)? I think so. If I had a choice, Penn State is the one I would steal. You can talk conference all you want, but a win over Penn State this season would be a program-changer.
I would throw Memphis into the must wins category as well. Understand the whole Penn State aspect, especially in PA, while ECU may be a better team than PSU a win over them while great from a conference perspective won;t have nearly the program impact. I guess we differ a bit on the importance of conference standing. For me it’s important to finish at least closer to the upper half of teams rather than the lower.
yeah, forgot about memphis. that was a game p.j. and robbie anderson dominated last year, yet memphis gave ucla all it could handle. geez, i hope somebody grabs that robbie anderson role. we’ve got a lot of 6-5 guys on the roster, but no one seems to want the ball. deloatch is good, but does he have anderson’s speed. the freshmen who do must step up now and separate themselves. eaton or derrick must grab this job and make explosive plays or we’re stuck with bunch of guys 5-7 to 5-10.
Remember Robbie Anderson didn’t emerge til around October last year, so I still have faith that we will have either a WR or RB break through by game 5
good point. I think Rhule said in the presser one of the tall freshmen wr is about to break out and make an impact. we’ll see.
Aside from the obvious physical skills of Andersen, do you think that the departure of Terry Smith has had any impact on wr performance this season. Really don’t know how good of a coach he is since it seems all most people want to discuss about Temple coaches is how they are as recruiters. But last season, aside from Andersen, Alderman did a good job and Christopher seemed to come on in the second half of the season as well.
don’t think so, jd, because a lot of the things Anderson could do (speed, vertical jump, hands, strength) can’t be taught. I like Adam DiMichele, but he should be QB coach and not WR coach.Heck, the only pass he went out for in his TU career, he tipped into Bruce Francis’ hand. Alderman was doing all of those good things prior to Smith’s arrival. He was always solid. Christopher is a star in the making if he can just stop getting injured, but he’s too much of a possession-type receiver now. We need a guy who can make explosive plays after the catch.
totally agree with JD, anything less than 4-1 is trouble…, confidence is funny and fragile..,, if Temple gets to 4-1 and starts to play with confidence then anything can happen if the coaching staff learns to teach, inspire, and make good game decisions…, haven’t seen a Temple team play with swagger since AG left, we had big time players who were nasty on those teams…, really concerned about our d-line, depth, and schemes on that side of the ball. the Tulsa passing attack will let us know sooo much about the team this year….., wild card in this equation is PJ’s health, playing on a bum ankle is not wise as only bad things can happen.., maybe he goes a quarter against DState and sits the rest of the way…, this Temple NEEDS a healthy PJ for the entire season
i”d even consider sitting him and going with connor reilly and lenny williams or logan marchi. save a redshirt for one of those last two, but not both. Need a mobile, P.J.-like, qb backup.
Got to give Rhule credit for starting PJ last season – that’s when the passing with Anderson, et al got real good if I’m not mistaken. And I remember Rhule being criticized for not red shirting PJ. But other than that, last year was a coaching disaster.
Been following Temple football for 30-plus years and without a doubt, the loss to Idaho was the worst in school history. Fordham was a close second. How do you do that in one season? Extremely (and not moderately) bad coaching. Idaho should not have been on the same field with Temple, yet the coaches played right into the Vandals’ hand by throwing pass after pass against the 125th-ranked run defense in the country at the time of the game.
Interesting that you keep saying that Temple played right into Idaho’s hands by throwing pass after pass when Idaho’s passing yards allowed ranked 122nd out of 123 teams, while their rushing defense ranked 104th. And that’s straight from ncaa.org. So I could see where you would want to run against a team that’s worse against the pass than the run.
Just read on mitchell’s blog that Zaire Williams has a bulging disc and is out indefinitely.
bulging disc is much worse than I thought it might be. get well soon, zaire.
Godspeed to Zaire and hope he develops into a good college player.
Good offensive teams can overcome two handicaps and win, but never three. So far, I’m tracking: 1) Nagging injury to starting QB which has a negative effect on performance; 2) No pro level talent at the skill positions; 3) No breakaway threat, or any player which the opposing defense must put in a game plan to stop and shutdown; 4) No production out of the TE position….,
AG teams had Rod Streater, BP, and Matt Brown…., good news is we are getting credible play out of the O-line which was supposed to be a weakness
your tracking system is spot … so far.. i expect a bunch of players to break out and have great games against Del. State. I hope it’s not Fool’s Gold (due to opponent).
Rhule hinted that the season starts on September 27th against UConn. We’ll see a bland game against DE St with Harper, Gilmore, and Hood running the ball and killing the clock. I agree with protecting starters as soon as the score allows. I would sit anyone who was not 100%.
Del. State game will show a lot about where the program and coaching stands. Temple has enough good players to dominate but not if the coaches screw up on play calling, time management, etc. Its hard to shake off last season until we all see some positive results this season. And talking about what should happen means nothing.What actually does happen tells it all.
Agree wholeheartedly. If this isn’t a blowout we’re in trouble. They lost to Delaware 28-7 who lost to Pitt 62-0. Anything other than a blowout, except if the starters are done by half time, shows no progress.
If we cannot get our running game going this Saturday, it will never get going. Love Kenny Harper. He could be one of the best blocking fullbacks in the country if given that role. He just not have AAC-elite-level speed to play tailback. Don’t know why the coaches are forcing Kenny, a square peg, into the tailback round hole. Hood, Gilmore, Herbin and Thomas do have elite-level speed. Get Harper out in front of them and get them to the corners for explosive plays in the run game.
The Owls will win this game easily. What I want out of this game is no injuries, a solid game plan that attacks the weakness of the opponent, and getting the younger guys some much needed playing time because as the season progresses injuries occur and we will need the younger guys to step up later in the year. I am still of the mind set that this team has a good chance of winning anywhere from 5-7 games this year provided they avoid key injuries and the coaching staff is able to coach these kids up and make them improve week in and week out.
nice comments James and agreee especially the part about improvement.
despite a terrible 2-12 record last year, the team did show improvement over the last 6 games of the season.., which they followed by a good opening day win. took a susbstantial step backwards against Navy (although I think Navy will wind up being one of the top 3 teams on our 2014 schedule)
the key is improving each game and playing above the individual talent level…, small things like making FGs, getting take-aways, keeping penalities low, not beating yourself are characteristics of well coached teams…, look at teams like Boise St, BYU, and even UCF.., no reason why we can’t play consistently on the same level
can Temple keep up with Pitt and PSU? golden years for college football in Pennsylvania? expect both Pitt and PSU to remain undefeated Saturday, and one of those teams should crack the top 25.., can Temple keep pace in the state? good bye to four stars recruits in the home state if they can’t stay on par
true … pitt took care of business against Delaware, a better team than del. state, 62-0. temple must do something like that on sat and, more importantly, do what daz did 2 years ago– win at uconn