Where is Temple football’s Jamal Mashburn, Jr.?

Where is Temple football's Jamal Mashburn Jr.?

Or Lynn Greer III?

Or even Jameel Brown?

Fair questions.
Oklahoma’s General Booty is in the portal. He would give Temple the best-named QB in the nation and a guy supremely motivated to do well on Aug. 31.

Where is Temple football’s Jamal Mashburn Jr.?

Or Lynn Greer III?

Or even Jameel Brown?

Fair questions.

While your one millionaire major sports coach was busting his ass signing people who made impacts for big-time programs and helped at least one make a post-season splash, your other millionaire coach was sitting on his hands doing absolutely nothing.

The transfer portal closed on May 1 and Temple football has done nada.

Squat.

Zero.

Let’s go.

Let’s get on the stick and get not only me (but long-suffering Temple fans) a big-time quarterback who doesn’t need an NIL deal but does need a starting job at an FBS school.

Texas’ Maalik Murphy was also available. If Temple could not sign him to be starting QB, (and it did not because he went to Duke), what good is it for Temple to give $2.5 million to a Texas RB coach and another $1 million to a Texas Football Director of Operations?

Let’s get a quarterback who wasn’t the second-best guy at the 129th-ranked FBS offense. Hell, the best guy at the same 129th-ranked offensive school entered the portal yesterday and I don’t want him either.

I want a guy who is better than the guy who left for Rice and so far Temple doesn’t have that guy.

The good news is that the closing of the transfer portal Tuesday doesn’t stop Temple from getting the best quarterback available in the portal now. It does stop guys already at 10th and Diamond from leaving, and that’s not a bad thing. There are OBJECTIVELY at least five better quarterbacks in the portal than E.J. Warner right now and Temple needs to go out and convince at least one of them to come here, just like Adam Fisher used his persuasive powers to convince Mashburn, Greer and Brown to come here.

The concerning thing is that the Temple team that practices on the one side of Broad Street is doing nothing to get better while the Temple team that practices on the other side of Broad Street hasn’t let the transfer portal create a malaise in the program.

Temple has invested millions into both its football and basketball facilities. It needs to show a return for both investments in terms of wins.

There’s a real energy and synergy coming out of Broad and Montgomery that does not exist at 10th and Diamond and people in Temple Town are noticing.

Right now, it appears that the plan of the Temple brain trust at 10th and Diamond is to go into the house of the eighth-best team in the country with the backup quarterback from the 129th-best offense under center.

That does not compute.

The plan on the other side of Temple Town is to have a guard who led his team to a win in the NCAA tournament lead the basketball Owls next season.

That sounds like a well-thought out plan.

Let’s rip a page out of the master Temple basketball plan and start using our football noggins for something other than a hat rack. There is a way to beat this transfer portal and NIL system and Temple basketball has a leg up on the football program right now.

Signing the Oklahoma backup quarterback with a huge talent upside over anyone in the Temple QB room right now to start the season at Oklahoma sounds like a well-thought-out plan as well.

We could do that or we could do what we’ve done since November (comparatively, speaking to our other AAC cohorts).

Sit on our hands and do nothing.

Monday: Laying a Foundation

Friday: A guy to keep an eye on

9 thoughts on “Where is Temple football’s Jamal Mashburn, Jr.?

  1. Your points are well taken. I’m just hoping the Rutgers kid surprises us and becomes effective in playing at our level.

    • Hope doesn’t get me to a bowl game. I’ve been hoping since Collins left because Carey’s bowl (55-13) doesn’t count.

      • TUFB carried four scholarship QBs on the roster the last three yrs. They will do so again in 2024. No more incoming transfers at QB.

        Had they both stayed at Rutgers, Wimsatt would have been 2nd string, and Simon 3rd string. So the RU third string QB will start for TUFB vs Oklahoma?

        There are now two degrees of separation, or more, between RU and TUFB.

        Regional schools keep moving forward, TUFB keeps moving to the rear. We are almost there, to dead last.

        https://collegefootballnews.com/rankings/college-football-rankings-2023-final-opinion-1-to-133

      • Tough decisions need to be made. Call the third and fourth QBs into Drayton’s office and tell them to hit the portal and then get two better quarterbacks from the same source. Nice guys finish last and we are proving to be way too nice and way too last.

  2. …BTW, the “other” coach is a MULTI-million $ coach, you know, the one who does little in meaningful ways to improve things. What the hell is the matter with Temple’s athletic mindset? And I agree with Palmieri about hoping the Rutgers kid shows us something at least decent enough to take advantage of our receivers and running backs to help the defense some. But the refusal to TRY to improve the QB room is hard to understand.

    • It is not refusal, it is lack of ability.

      Does TUFB have NIL to offer a QB w/Sunday potential? No

      Does Drayton/Langsdorf have the reputation for developing next level talent at the QB position? No

      Does TUFB have explosive playmakers at the WR position? No

      Does TUFB have an experienced OL capable of protection? No

      Tell me again why Warner and McDowell transferred? oops

      Will Drayton even be here next year, and will a new QB be forced to learn another offense in the Spring of ’25? oops

      Every promising QB in their right mind will want good answers to those logical questions.

  3. Maybe Adam Fisher has time to run the football program as well?

    • Definitely has his hands full but he’s not throwing his hands up in the air like the other guy. Always said Temple needs someone who can play the portal like Howie Roseman does the NFL draft and there is not a lot of brainpower in the coaching offices at 10th and Diamond. There is one guy who was a coach with Collins and Rhule and he does know how to wave the 10th and Diamond baton to play beautiful music. Unfortunately, the other dummies on the staff don’t have his back.

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