Something positive: Keeler is holding it together

Last year, Stan Drayton allowed Rock, Paper and Scissors between Forrest Brock and Evan Simon to determine the first-team QB reps. Now Rock, Paper and Scissors doesn’t decide anything. Thanks to K.C. Keeler for that.

Let’s face it: College sports is a complete bleep show now.

More players entered the NCAA Division I basketball portal than ever on Thursday (we would give you the exact number but it was 1,700 at noon and 1,887 at 4 p.m. and probably over 2,000 now), including basically the entire Temple University men’s basketball team.

The Scotus decision on the NCAA vs. Alston in 2021 caused complete anarchy in college sports. The transfer portal preceded that but there was very little movement because there was no big money thrown around. Kids used the portal for the reason it was intended–to get playing time at another school when they weren’t getting it at their own.

Have to wonder if Whizzer White–an All-American football player in an era where amateurs dominated college sports–would have agreed with his colleagues if he had lived long enough to remain on the court.

Temple’s major sports have struggled since because the grads are not as deep-pocketed as the products of the SEC and Big 10 schools.

While coaches like Adam Fisher, Stan Drayton, Aaron McKie and Rod Carey haven’t been able to keep a semblance of sanity, probably the most impressive aspect of the first few months is that new head coach K.C. Keeler is holding things together. Make no mistake about it. Demerick Morris can play in the NFL. He is THAT good. He came to the correct conclusion that can be done for a championship coach. He dipped his toe into the water and went to Oklahoma State before deciding he made a mistake.

Maybe it was because of Keeler’s reputation. Maybe it was because of something else, like Keeler sitting down and having a heart-to-heart conversation with every single one of Temple’s scholarship players.

Still, what is unmistakable is Keeler is holding it together at Temple in a way Drayton, Carey and now Fisher haven’t demonstrated.

That’s an improvement in an era where chaos now reigns.

Less chaos probably means more wins for Temple.

Monday: What the awards tell you

Friday: The Last Cherry and White Game Ever?

9 thoughts on “Something positive: Keeler is holding it together

  1. Landon Morris is gone again, another free scholarship to use in the next window.

    Keeler needs to fix the O-line in order to run the football. And, a big/power back would help.

    • Big mistake for Landon. Hell, he probably saw that Reece Clarke is the better tight end and left but I thought both were equal. The new OC from Montana State highlighted the TE. If any TE wants to go the NFL, Temple probably is a better place than most P4 schools.

  2. well, leave it to a conservative SC judge to vote for the big money situation. And why did TU lose their basketball starters? With the exception of Stanford, several were done with their college careers and others saw the possibility of bigger payouts elsewhere – so what can you do? Starting from scratch again….

    • Four other judges went along with that opinion. Why the focus on this one?

      • seems there were two votes related to NIL.

      • Fair. Re-edited the story and took him out. I still disagree with the decision. If you are going to pay athletes above and beyond room, board, tuition, and cost-of-attendance, there shouldn’t be a guy in the locker room making $5 million while other starters are making nothing. Should be a way to split the TV money evenly among 130 FBS schools (half to players, half to schools) so we don’t seem the same teams in the postseason every year and eliminate these “agents” representing players.

    • The beauty of the NCAA tournament once was that teams like St. Joe (2004), LaSalle a couple of years later, St. Peter’s, George Mason, Butler’s two runnerup finishes, were all able to have Cinderella runs because they were able to keep starters together for four years in a one-and-done era for the powers. Now the powers just take the players they like from the Cinderellas and leave the Cindys the players they don’t like. No surprise there aren’t any deep runs for G5 schools anymore. Ruined the tournament for me. Watched through the first weekend and no more after that.

  3. the captured image of the OC in the background is foretelling

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