Last donation: Ed P., Yardley, Pa. (1/9/23; thanks, Ed,, your generosity is greatly appreciated) 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
Jay M. no hometown found ; Earlier: William B. Chicago; John from Landenberg, ; Mark B, South Jersey, Joe S, Springfield, PA…,
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Temple Football Forever 
The whole Jared Folks situation was odd as he was healthy the whole season, at least in appearance.
I also agree that Boom Boom should’ve red-shirted and let Austin Jones play.
Mike, I’ll add another 2/3 from one subject: what is and when will we see “mayhem”? Followed by: will we know what it is when we see it? #stillwaiting
Hey guys, Phil Mushnick of the NY Post today demeaned the football program and the University in an article about Robbie Anderson by stating that it had gone to the dark side regarding athletics. I pointed out to him that he was absolutely wrong because Anderson was expelled, it does not suffer fools well, and the school has a very high athletic graduation rates. Please email him and tell him how wrong he is. When I did he brought up the fight three years ago involving the two linemen as evidence that the program was out of control even though those charges did not end in a guilty verdict.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/22/when-degenerate-behavior-from-nfl-players-no-longer-surprises/
John, it’s the Post…. I wouldn’t worry about it. Anyone reading it in order to be informed is not someone you’d want to, or would be able to, have a solid conversation with.
This is a great recruiting coup especially because he decommitted from Rutgers. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/woodrow-wilson-te-de-travon-king-headed-to-temple-20180121.html
…not quite a ‘decommitment’, though that’s how both sides portrayed it publicly to help the kid out. He was ‘committed’ to Rutgers but almost actively looking for a PSU offer (they were likely feeding the kid a line of BS because his younger brother is a fairly big prospect for ‘19 though everyone could see PSU was just stringing the kid along) and he lost his spot to a DE from Maryland. This happened like a month and a half ago. We got burned last year by the Corey Bolds situation with PSU on NSD and weren’t about give a chance for a sequel. This kid will likely remain solid to you but if for some reason the Nits show any interest or even somehow offer (like a 1% chance of that happening) he’ll likely be gone in less than a second. Baylor (another school with reported interest) has a full class. A lot of his other offers are long-gone this late in the game. I doubt he would want to go to Tulane for football over you guys. I remember seeing an article on how he and his brother have been dreaming of playing together at PSU but it doesn’t look like that will be the case.
…believe me, I know this looks like ‘sour grapes’, I’m sure some will think that, and it’s not like I’m some master authority of everything, but this is probably much closer to being accurate than ‘sour grapes’.
Joe P.
I would like to believe this story; however, the fact that you’re saying he lost his spot to a kid from Maryland seems inaccurate in how is played out.
The MD kid you’re referring to is Jamree Kromah, who RU attempted to flip (and did so succesfully) from Conference USA foe Old Dominion.
From what i heard, RU wanted Travon and asked him to sign during the early NSD, Travon said “no” and they told him bye and started a search for another DE and thus flipped Kromah. Here is Kromah’s profile on 247 Sports:
https://247sports.com/player/jamree-kromah-46047585
I’ve seen Joe post on this site for years and I have never seen him admit to a kid who picked Temple over Rutgers without adding qualifiers (“not a committable offer, not really an offer because we got another kid we wanted over him”) … if this guy just once … once … said, “you guys kicked our ass on that kid. we wanted him bad but he liked Philly and the city” then I would give him creditability. As of now, he’s got none. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
Numero, right about the kid. The ‘sources’ on the King situation I saw/ heard though are very close to it. I don’t think King wanted to sign early (because he was holding out hope for the PSU offer) and your perspective also fits in. We heard for months ‘he’s solid to Rutgers; the only thing that would change that would be a PSU offer.’ Mid-late November rumor had it PSU was poking around and the staff probably asked him about early signing, he balked, and Rutgers said, ‘ok, best of luck to you then’ right around the first week of December IIRC. After that happened all of a sudden the narrative turned to ‘hey, how can Rutgers do that? He really wanted to be there’, to which numerous RU people called bullfeathers.
King is a good prospect and I would have liked to see him at Rutgers but quite frankly I don’t think he was an elite enough prospect to justify the PSU waiting game. He had legit offers from BC and NC State though they were time-sensitive and LONG GONE by October/November. Kromah is raw though with potential; he was actually getting offered by Maryland (at least rumor had it) because they had a Plan A kid fall through and he was very close to OV’ing there but chose to take the bird in hand. Both King and Kromah are going to need a few years to develop; I don’t see either as immediate contributors. King is light and both need college-level S&C before seeing the field on D.
Joe P.
Also, RU had been touch with Kromah since the end of his junior season though he wasn’t necessarily first in line. He basically was 2nd in line for that slot and when King balked, that was it. Believe me, I don’t think I’m stupid enough to think that PSU sits there and sweats Rutgers at this point, but if they got all their top guys locked in, I’ve heard they would use a last offer just to mess with a local conference opponent (almost exactly what they did with Corey Bolds last year; I doubt he ever actually plays there). Once Rutgers wentbin another direction I bet any actual shot of PSU offering were cut in half of whatever they were.
Joe P.
Actually you’re wrong George; you beat us out straight-up for Banks and I said that but for whatever reason that comment got cut. As for this situation, the beautiful thing about living in this country is you are free to think what you want. I honestly don’t care if you believe me or not. I brought it up as a point of discussion (and respect Mime’s passion).
Joe P.
*Mike’s passion, not ‘Mimes’.
Joe P.
thanks, Joe; been called worst things than Mimes