05.17.24
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How others see Temple should set off alarms

“Stan Drayton? He’s probably going to be fired at the end of this year.” Nice way to start this video

Had to laugh at another post on social media from a well-intentioned Temple football fan who saw that the Owls were picked to finish last again in the AAC and responded with this:

“Bulletin board material.”

Yeah, that’s one way to look at it but that was the way MOST Temple fans looked at it in the last three years when the same damn projections were made with similar results six months later.

I don’t look at it that way, sorry.

Even when Temple lost, the Owls had pride and a swagger and trolled their opponents and Keita Crispina won the day here. Temple needs more players like him.

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

This is the way I look at it.

You have a head coach who is being paid $2.5 million a year to win–one of the highest salaries in the AAC–and he should see those warnings as a five-alarm fire and this is the one guy who should be scrambling for extinguishers instead of whispering: “Do you smell smoke, too? Somebody must be lighting up a cigarette in the Edberg-Olson poll room. We should be OK.”

Instead, the whole $17 million place is on fire.

The consensus to the outside world is that it’s going to be a long 2024 for the Temple football Owls. See the above video. Those guys got a couple of minor facts wrong but their overall consensus is solid.

It’s IS going to be a long 2024 for the Temple football Owls and head coach Stan Drayton, the guy who is making the $2.5 million, hasn’t done enough to this point to improve the roster.

He might think he has but he has not.

He’s running out of time.

When you upgrade at the 21 secondary positions and downgrade significantly at the No. 1 position on the team, you are not giving the other 21 guys a chance to succeed.

You had a chance to get a better quarterback than E.J. Warner since the day he left in early December and so far you haven’t done a gosh darn thing.

Let’s go. Let’s get moving.

The Owls went from one of the best young quarterbacks in the country to probably the third-best starting quarterback on a FBS team in the state of Pennsylvania.

Not good.

Here’s where we are right now. On a Temple fan facebook site, several people are excited about getting a defensive tackle from Division II Livingston College who had exactly one sack of a Division II quarterback.

Stevie Freaking Wonder could recruit a guy like that.

The only way to up those totals is to grab one of the six or seven remaining QBs in the portal who have demonstrated to be better than E.J. Warner. Stan Drayton is on the clock and time is running out.

Where are my backup DLs from Michigan, Alabama, Georgia looking for a starting spot?

Nowhere to be found.

Most importantly, where is my quarterback who is better, not worse, than E.J. Warner?

Nobody on the outside thinks Temple is going to be any good until the Owls sign a big-time quarterback with bonafides and the guy making $2.5 million doesn’t see the need to call in the fire department when this conflagration is about to burn the house down.

I’ll tell you what. If that was me making the $2.5 million, I would set aside at least $500K of my own money for a big-time quarterback to make sure my paychecks don’t get cut off at the end of this calendar year.

Or I could make the calculation to take the Temple money, suffer the 3-9 and go back to doing what I did before I got to Temple.

Greatness doesn’t quit. Nor should it.

Monday: The way too early game by game

Friday: Could This Be The One?

5 thoughts on “How others see Temple should set off alarms”

    • You are correct, sir. Pisses me off to no end that the uni never (in this case BOT) learned from the Bradshaw/Dunphy and Kraft/Carey hires and did not insist NO PRIOR CONNECTIONS between the hiring guy (Johnson) and the guy getting hired (Drayton). This line of thinking will bring down the Temple football program and make the E-O a baseball stadium by 2030 if not sooner.

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    1. Find/develop a program leading QB.
    2. Build a house of brick at the line of scrimmage.

    We are making a huge assumption McDowell’s ability. For starters, would you marry someone who was a five time divorcee? Drayton put confidence in a kid who had signed/committed to five schools prior to TU.

    When was the last time TU started the season with the weakest QB room in the conference?

    IMHO, TUFB has a legitimate shot at a winless season.

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  3. TUFB is 132 out of 134 teams in the new ESPN poll. Super chance to be ranked the worst team in college after the Oklahoma game.

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    • Super duper chance to start out No. 1 in the ESPN Top 10. I thought those days were over once Al Golden and Matt Rhule did the heavy lifting. Now, thanks to the buddy system we are back where we started 19 years ago.

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