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05.20.16
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Spoiling Joe’s Party

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Go ahead, try to explain this: Sue Paterno is planning some kind of “family celebration” on Sept. 17 marking Joe Paterno’s first game as head coach.

The university is denying any kind of sponsorship of this event, but this seems clear: Temple will have a chance to spoil some kind of party because that is the day the Owls travel to Penn State. It also marks the 50th year of Paterno’s first game as head coach, coming on Sept. 17, 1966 against Maryland.

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Joe before TU game in 1950

Whatever your feelings are about Joe Paterno knowing or not knowing what Jerry Sandusky did (I vote yes, for reasons to be outlined further down this post), this is definitely a celebration that needs to be toasted with the sour taste of a Blue and White defeat. There is some good news ahead for Temple fans. As confident as I was in the Owls losing to Toledo in December, that’s how confident I am in the Owls beating Penn State again.

For these reasons:

  • Confidence coming from blowout wins over Army and Stony Brook. Plenty of Owls will get playing time and those two wins should be able to get immensely talented players like Greg Webb and Karamo Dioubate up to speed.
  • A four-year starting quarterback vs. a rookie. This is P.J. Walker’s year and he is not going to be upstaged by someone who could not beat out Christian Hackenberg. Walker clearly outplayed the New York Jets’ quarterback a year ago and goes from being a game manager to a star this season.
  • Phil Snow has the formula to beat PSU. Snow tried the three-man rushes two years ago but now knows that constant pressure is the way to keep the Nittany Lions off balance.
  • Temple will be supremely motivated. The Owls have been hearing all year that the only reason they won was because  was because Saquon Barkley had only 1 carry. PSU fans conveniently forget that carry was a 1-yard loss.
  • Penn State will be trying too hard. Revenge will be on the Staters’ minds, but the pressing that comes with it will cause fumbles and interceptions.
  • Temple has weapons all over the place. With Ryquell Armstead at running back and Jahad Thomas at slot receiver, Kip Patton and Colin Thompson at tight end and Adonis Jennings and Ventell Bryant at wide receiver, the Owls can finally use the “shell game” offense—that is, spreading the ball around to a number of guys who can make explosive plays downfield.  It might not be 27-10 again, but it could be 24-7 or even 34-10.

 

In Paterno’s first year as an assistant, 1950, his team tied Temple, 7-7. He was Rip Engle’s only assistant and, that year, learned to be a micro-manager, a trait that he carried with him through his later years. He had to know Jerry Sandusky was a bad hombre because he facilitated  Sandusky’s exit at a time when defensive coordinators just do not retire. That only made sense after the scandal hit the fan.

If any party deserves to be pooped, it is this one, and the Owls are just the team to do it.

Sunday: Paying Temple Forward

Tuesday: The Turner Field Solution

05.18.16
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For Pete’s Sake

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Last year, the Temple Owls did something relatively simple which was remarkably spectacular and that was put the simple word “Lew” on a patch of the helmet.

This year, for Pete’s sake, it is time to revisit that and, by saying for Pete’s sake, we mean it literally. The word “Pete” should be on the patch this year in Cherry and White for a double meaning in that it would honor two men of the same name who were instrumental in support of the football program, Pete Chodoff and Peter J. Liacouras.

We covered the passing of “Doc” Chodoff a couple of months ago, so we will concentrate on Pete Liacouras here. Full disclosure: I have been critical of Liacouras since he was behind the firing of the only decent head coach between Wayne Hardin and Al Golden and that was Bruce Arians. It was a mistake that set Temple football back 20 years, but Liacouras should be given credit for admitting the mistake.

Arians forgave Pete a long time ago and so should we.

In the end, though, Liacouras’ heart was in the right place for Temple football even if his Sugar Bowl timetable was a little off. He wanted a stadium, but he did not want one if there wasn’t “an identifiable funding source” and that phrase has been the foundation for the new proposed stadium.

It would be nice if the stadium was built, but the more immediate task at hand is for the season to be dedicated to him and the “other” Pete with a simple patch. Cherry and White would be the perfect color.

This is all, of course, up to Matt Rhule but he showed how something relatively simple last year could be remarkably spectacular and this tribute would be the exact same thing.

Friday: Spoiling Joe’s 50th

05.16.16
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2017 Mock Draft: Temple Edition

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Nobody gets through Dion.

A writer for The Washington Post, Neil Greenberg, was way ahead of the curve with his 2016 Mock Draft for the Baltimore Ravens.

In it, Greenberg had Praise Martin-Oguike, a defensive end from Temple, being drafted in the sixth round. There was only one problem with that. Praise Martin-Oguike was already committed to playing for Temple next season.

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Too soon?

Oguike will be one of a number of Temple Owls, in our mind, drafted in the 2017 real NFL draft and we think he will go in the fourth, not sixth, round. Hanging around a former position NFL coach like Phil Snow for another year can only help his draft value.

Here are five Owls we think could be drafted and which rounds they will go to if they play up to their potential:

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Jahad Thomas, Seventh Round

This is all incumbent on the Owls splitting Thomas out and using him at his position on the next level, which will be slot receiver. One of P.J. Walker’s problems in a sophomore slump, was that he was without his crutch and cosmic partner, Robby Anderson. With Anderson gone, he will need another receiver to mind meld with and Thomas—who has even better run-after-catch potential than Anderson—could be that guy. This will be their eighth year of football together. There is not a demand in the NFL for 5-10, 170-pound running backs. There is one for 5-10, 170-pound elusive slot receivers.

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Accuracy and mobility

P.J. Walker, Sixth Round

There were three quarterbacks drafted in the sixth round by the NFL this season and none of them had as good a touchdown-to-interception ratio in their final year as P.J. Walker did in his penultimate year.  (Michigan’s Jake Rudock, Arkansas’ Brandon Allen, and Louisiana Tech’s Jeff Driskel were the three. ) After tossing 13 touchdowns and 15 interceptions as a sophomore, Walker improved those numbers to 19 and 8 as a junior. More importantly, he improved the wins from six to 10. He will leave Temple with every QB mark. He might be short, but he makes up for that with tremendous accuracy and he is very mobile and can get out of trouble to make plays downfield. If he can improve the wins from 10 to 11 or more, he will get noticed. Wins, that will be his most important draft number. If it’s 15 wins, he could go in the first round. Right now, we’ll settle for 11 and 6.

Praise Martin-Oguike, Fourth Round

This defensive end has all of the physical tools to be a dominating NFL player. For him to be drafted, though, he will have to stay on the field and have at least double-digit sacks. With guys like Greg Webb, Averee Robinson, Haason Reddick and Sharif Finch collapsing the pocket (not even mentioning what Karamo Dioubate’s roll could be), he could get those numbers.  If he does, look out.

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One of 2 picks to the house.

Sean Chandler, Third Round

This prediction is made only if he is allowed to take his superior vision and route-jumping skills to the middle of the field, where he can come up with a lot of interceptions. So far, so good because it looks like Artrel Foster,  Kareem Ali Jr., Nate Hairston could have the requisite ability to hold down the other corner positions.  How many people know that Chandler is one of only two players in the nation to have multiple interception returns for touchdowns a year ago? Surely, the NFL knows. If he is able to duplicate that and add a half-dozen interceptions, he becomes a candidate to do exactly what Bernard Pierce did on the other side of the ball—get drafted in the third round and come out a year early.

Dion Dawkins, First Round

The guy who stands in the middle of the pre-game huddle and is a natural-enough leader to get the team around him when he does is “I play for; I play for; I play for  …. TEMPLE” chant will be playing for a first-or second-round NFL payday this season. He is the perfect size, speed and strength to be an NFL tackle and has the kind of nasty-knock-them-back attitude the league is looking for on draft day. How much he knocks back the Penn State line on Sept. 17 will be his most important film of the season.

Wednesday: For Pete’s Sake

05.13.16
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Stadium: The End Game

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On the eve of the Toledo game, I wrote that the Owls were walking into an ambush and I did not have a good feeling about that outcome.

I have had a similar feeling in the pit of my stomach for a long time about the proposed new stadium. I kept hoping it was heartburn and it would go away, but now I am more convinced than ever it is not after hearing City Council President Darrell Clarke say this the other day: “I don’t know even five people who are in favor of it.” If he were really considering approving this, his comments at this point would open the door slightly for interpretation by saying things like “we’re going to review this” but the “I don’t know five people” comment is effectively slamming the door shut.

(He must be ignoring the hundreds of Temple students who voted in favor it it in the Temple News poll. Either that, or they don’t count as people in Clarke’s world.)

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Not counted among those five is Mayor Kenney,  who has been against it from the beginning, thinking that it was nothing more than a Temple ploy to bring down the rent. Temple President Neil D. Theobald debunked that notion while speaking to the student government by saying that the school is committed to building a new stadium for long-term reasons and despite any concessions it gets from the Eagles.

Kenney has also been adamant that this is Clarke’s baby and, if he doesn’t want it, Kenney is going to put the full weight of the city’s political machine against it. I’m particularly not buying the belief of many Temple people that the city wants a handout before they give the go-ahead. I don’t think this falls into the same category as the Liacouras Center. The city is really dead set against this.

I don’t see Temple having the stomach to rage against that machine. That’s too bad because I feel, if push comes to shove, the city would stand a good chance in a more friendly state supreme court if it decided to sue the city for the right to build the stadium. (The state hates the city anyway.) Temple can simply state it has as much right to build a stadium on its property as any other university building (citing no city opposition to Morgan Hall, the Library or the Student Activities Center). It can further point out that similar universities, like Penn State and Rutgers and Maryland have stadiums on their campus and that the city barring Temple from building puts the school at a competitive disadvantage.

The top three administrators at Temple are all Indiana Hoosiers, who could be so shocked by how city politics operates they decide to say bleep it, let’s continue to play at LFF. It all comes down if they decide this is worth the fight.

This is the same bad gut feeling I had before Toledo, and no amount of Alka-Seltzer or arguments to the contrary is going to make me think differently.

Monday: 2017 Mock Temple Draft

Wednesday: For Pete’s Sake

Friday: Spoiling Joe’s 50th

05.11.16
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Unfinished Business: The Real Meaning

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At first, the slogan Unfinished Business seemed like an overused and trite slogan for the 2016 Temple football team, but it seems to be catching on as of late and it certainly describes where the program is right now.

On Sunday, around 4 in the afternoon, I saw an attractive young woman (in her early 30s, I assumed), jogging through the park near where I live wearing a Cherry “Unfinished Business” with a Temple’][‘ logo smack in the middle. She was otherwise pre-occupied—multitasking with a kid on a bike will do that–or I would have asked where she got it. I have since learned that the only place where she could have got it was the Cherry and White game because they were given out at that venue and, even if you were there, if you were not at the right place at the right time you would not have received one. (I did see from my vantage point shirts being given out, but I assumed they were generic Temple football ones and I have about 90 of those.)
Damn.

As the season goes along, I have a feel that the shirts will become more popular.
Assumptions about both the shirt and the slogan were a little premature. At first, I thought the slogan meant winning a bowl game but now it is pretty clear the business that was unfinished last year and will be the focal point for this year is getting that school record of 11 football wins in the same season. Anything beyond that will be gravy and, since I like gravy, let’s do it. Ironically, Walker’s No. is 11 but I don’t he was talking about uniforms in these tweets as much as a record-setting season for Temple football.

The evidence is these two tweets from quarterback P.J. Walker:

Legendary year ahead:

 

These goals, to me, are reasonable and attainable. First, the offense should be more explosive–especially if Jahad Thomas is split out and Ryquell Armstead or Jager Gardner emerge as at least equal to JT’s production last season. That doubles the number of weapons Walker has, not even counting the other WRs and TEs. Two, despite defensive losses, there are people ready to step in at positions where the losses were felt the most. Three, the schedule is significantly weaker.

Unfinished business indeed. The waiting is the hardest part.

05.09.16
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Time To Give Old Shoe The Boot

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This is what you get for a win over Bucknell

When it comes to college football and future schedules, it is always wise to follow the money. The money—in this case Power 5 opponents—is moving away from  scheduling FCS schools and so should Temple.

Because what the P5 says, usually goes, and if the P5 conferences (ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big 10, Pac-12) have told their members to stop scheduling them, then the BCS is probably planning to tell the NCAA what to do and that will be making what is now a bowl-eligible game ineligible for bowl consideration.

That’s why Temple should start to clear the table of its future FCS opponents. On this page an updated list of Owl future foes as of a month ago. We’re hearing that Villanova for 2017 is a “done deal” and even that the Owls are talking to Bucknell for a future game. Hopefully, the 2017 Villanova game is a one-and-done deal  and any thought of reviving the Bucknell rivalry for the “Old Shoe” has been quickly dismissed. (Temple once scored 82 points on Bucknell and then shortly after that lost 20-straight games, the first of two 20-game losing streaks Owl fans had to endure in the last 50 years.)

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Owls were up 82-14  at one point in this game before 7,000 at Homecoming. They had 35,000 at Homecoming this year.

There are a lot of opponents who make sense for Temple football, especially since Penn State will be off the schedule, maybe forever, with this fall’s game.

Rutgers and Maryland because of geography and Syracuse, BC and Pitt because of past relationships make a great deal of sense. Virginia Tech and Miami should also be considered. Idaho, which just dropped FBS football, should also be dropped from the 2018 schedule. The problem with playing P5 schools for non-conference games is that they won’t play home-and-homes. Still, the Owls got a home-and-home with Maryland and should seek one with ‘Cuse and BC. If not, then dip into non-P5 schools like Buffalo (which we hear is also a done deal). A UMass game in 2017 holds no appeal, especially if the Minutemen follow Idaho in the FCS as rumored.

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At a tailgate last fall, I asked Temple athletic director Pat Kraft, a former Indiana football player, about playing the Hoosiers and he said “they don’t want to play us” and that he had indeed asked them. He felt it was because Temple was getting too good. The only reason Temple is playing Stony Brook this year is because the Seawolves graciously stepped aside when Notre Dame asked for the 2014 game to be pushed back a year. Opponents similar to Delaware State and Stony Brook should never be considered again.

It’s not dissing those schools, just following the leaders Temple aspires to be a part of in the not-too-distant future.

Wednesday: Real Meaning of Unfinished Business

05.07.16
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Inside The Mind Of A Stadium Stomper

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With a lot of luck, this is what Geasey Field will look like in 2 years.

Days before her scheduled graduation in 2015, Rachel Hall was struck by a hit-and-run driver, leaving her in a coma. After an agonizing year of medical treatments and therapy, Hall received her graduating honors with her fellow Temple University grads on Friday.

Hall was among the 9,341 Owls who graduated and made most of her fame not only in the classroom, but with her athletic accomplishments on the site of the future on-campus stadium at Temple, currently called Geasey Field.

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Colorado State started construction on its $220 million stadium. This photo was taken Friday night. It will open in the fall of 2017.

There would have been no athletic opportunities for Hall or her teammates had there been a group of Geasey Field Stompers when the university sought to build the then “largest Astroturf field in the world” 40 years ago. (They used the same land as grass fields for at least 63 years. In 1953, university public information director Bob Geasey died and the fields were immediately named after him.)

Fortunately, most students today at Temple are like the ones back then, intelligent and driven to success.

Then you have others,  looking to pick a fight when there is no fight really there.

Those are called Stadium Stompers and at least one went off on an illogical rant in response to our recent post how misguided the stompers are. Here are just some twitter responses.

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Yes. People who want to donate to that can follow this link and name it as their specific cause. There are donors who made stadium-specific donations. If the stadium is not built, the money returns to the donors.

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To give to the office of sustainability, go to Temple.edu, find giving , click other and name that as your cause. I’m sure they would appreciate as many Stomper contributions as possible.

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You are also allowed to donate to that as well.

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That above tweet, as well as the others, represents a basic misunderstanding how of university projects are funded at Temple. It might be “stale” to her, but it’s how funding life works at major universities without an Ivy League-level endowment. For a special project like a stadium, where the university does not want to dip into the general fund, it solicits donations. The Board of Trustees made clear it would not approve this project without special conditions. For the stadium, the bulk of the project will be funded by donations from alumni specifically directed toward that project. The  balance of the money required will come from shifting the Lincoln  Financial Field rent to the new stadium. If the project isn’t started, the money returns to the donor and the Owls continue to rent LFF with the Linc money. It’s a relatively simple concept that is hard for some who have not done their homework to understand.

Something tells me Rachel Hall and most of the graduates yesterday have done enough homework to understand simple reality that others interpret only as stale rhetoric.

Monday: Future Schedules

Wednesday: Real Meaning of Unfinished Business

Friday: Stadium End Game

 

05.05.16
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Matakevich: Steel City Walker

Joe Walker is nothing special here.

By passing over the consensus national defensive player of the year, Tyler Matakevich, twice in the seventh round, Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman has made Pennsylvania a battleground state for right or wrong.

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Joe Walker

Or, more precisely, an eye test. By, oh, the 14th game of this season, we will probably find out that Roseman needs to be fitted for a new pair of glasses. From Roseman’s subjective view, Walker was the better player.

Forget the fact that a whole bunch of other eyes saw enough of Matakevich to make him both the Chuck Bednarik and Bronco Nagurski Awards as national defensive player of the year, here are the stone hard cold numbers:

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If that was a blind Player A and Player B comparison, most people would pick the guy with 138 tackles and 15.5 tackles for losses over the guy with 87 tackles and five for losses.

Not Roseman, though.

The explanation offered by Roseman for not picking Matakevich was tepid at best:

“He’s a good football player,” Roseman said of Matakevich. “Obviously we had a chance to watch him locally live. Coach [Matt] Rhule is a big booster of his. We know him well. We spoke to him a couple of times today. Happy for him that he got an opportunity in Pittsburgh. A good football player. He was in consideration for us when we were looking at linebackers here.”

Big deal because “in consideration for us” and picking Walker let the entire Philadelphia area know that the Eagles felt that Walker was the better player. The stone cold hard numbers suggest otherwise, as do a whole lot of good football people on both the Nagurski and Bednarik committees.

On the other hand, Roseman is a nerd who never played football. Matakevich will be walking the sidelines in the Steel City long after Walker is back home in Oregon. That’s not a prediction, it’s a promise.

Saturday: Stadium Stompers React To Our Story

05.03.16
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Sadly, Breaking Up The Owls

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Three great Owl fans (from left): Ted DeLapp, Rick Gabe, Phil Makowski. (Photo from STH twitter)

Over the last few years, St. Peter must have said out loud “break up those Temple fans; they are too good” and the boss must have taken it a little too literally.  The latest bit evidence is long-time Temple fan Phil Makowski, who passed away recently at the ridiculously young age of 51.

Break up the Owls indeed.

To that point, people living in Philadelphia might have heard the phrase “break up the Phillies” over the last few days and wondered why anyone would ask for a team which has won eight of nine to be broken up. It’s a joke many younger fans don’t get and relates all the way back to the time in the 1920s when only the Yankees were able to sign all of the good players for that Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig dynasty. “Breaking up” meant the team was too good and, for the good of the sport, to spread the talent around.

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Longtime TU beat writer Kevin Tatum also passed away. Of Kevin, OwlsDaily editor Shawn Pastor said this: “Kevin was without question my favorite guy to cover  the team in the last 25 years.”

They won’t break the Phillies, but The Man upstairs must have been annoyed at all of the phony Rutgers and Penn State fans and wanted a few genuine fans floating on those clouds up there. Say what you will about there not being enough of them, but Temple fans, if anything, are genuine. This site is dedicated not to the team, the parents, the players or coaches, but to Temple fans. Players, coaches, parents and staff (except for Nadia, Thank God) come and go, but fans stay forever and that’s why this site is called Temple Football Forever. Fans who come to every home game in the middle of 20-game losing streak and are still there on the other side are real fans. Fans who generously offer to give rides to other Temple fans on road games are real fans.



This site is dedicated
not to the team, the parents,
the players or coaches,
but to Temple fans.
Players, coaches, parents
and staff (except for Nadia,
Thank God) come and go,
but fans stay forever

Phil did both. I got to know him on a road trip to UConn in 2012. We stayed at the Sheraton East Hartford, which happened to be the UConn team hotel.

The ice machine in my room wasn’t working, and my one job was to keep our brewskis cold for the tailgate. Rather than knock on Phil’s door and wake him up, I kept getting up and going to the ice machine down the hall. All night, the UConn football players in team blue sweats were up and down walking the halls. I posted on Facebook and Twitter that night that there was no way this sleep-deprived team should be 5 ½-point favorites, so take the Owls outright.  It’s one thing for a fan in charge of the brewskis to be sleep-deprived;   it’s another thing for a 55-person team of athletes.

The Owls won, 17-14.

That morning, after breakfast, we made eye contact with former (and now) Temple, then UConn assistant, George DeLeone, who was coming out of a team meeting room. George saw us in our Temple fan garb, gave us a knowing nod, and left the room open and empty. For some reason, Phil said, “Let’s go in.” On a seat in the meeting room, we found a complete UConn playbook with the name of the kid on it—we looked him up, he was a deep sub—and stuck it under the seat of his car and we were off to the game.

Phil spent the first half of the game in the box of the athletic director, then came down to cheer with us peons for the thrilling conclusion.

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On the white-knuckler ride home, Phil must have driven between 85-90 mph. That was a two-seatbelt trip. I thought the two of us would never make it back to Philly safe and sound, but somehow we set a land speed record for a trip between Rentschler Field and Philadelphia and lived to tell about it. (I must have looked over at the speedometer and said “yo, Phil” 27 times. He would laugh and say, “don”t worry, Mike, I got this.”)

Every time I saw Phil, which was every home game since, I gave him good-natured grief about his driving and we had a few laughs about it and the playbook story and the game itself.  In between, we met and conversed with and converted a whole lot of future Temple fans who will outlive us both.

Phil now joins a long group of Temple fans who have left a lasting legacy. He will be missed and we will toast him before every kickoff but it will not be nearly enough to repay his devotion.

Related:

Doc Chodoff

NJ Schmitty

Wes Sornisky

Dan Glammer

Lewis Katz

Shane Artim

Steve Bumm

Thursday: Soul City Walker

05.01.16
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Owls Will Prove Character Prevails

Matt Ioannidis made one of the most iconic plays in Temple history at the 1:20 time stamp here.

Back when getting into college was literally a matter of life or death, a lot of the Philadelphia Catholic League high schools started shifting their focus from core subjects to doing well in the SATs. A lot of the tests and courses were geared to getting that minimum SAT score and thereby saving a lot of the lives of their students with a heavy does of late afternoon tutoring.

You could be a real SOB but if you got the SAT score and the nice guy who got A’s in all of his classes sitting next to you did not, he was going to Vietnam and you were getting the student deferment.  It was a messed-up system, but it was the system of the day—SAT scores meant everything and grades meant little.

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Tavon Young closes fast on Will Fuller.

So it is today with the NFL combine scores and the NFL draft. A lot of Temple nice guys who got A’s on the field got passed over but guys who did well on that combine test by SOBs.

The difference this time is that the nice guys will not get shot at, but instead will have a shot at sticking in the  NFL. The only Temple guys who got a fair shake were Tavon Young (fourth round, Balitmore Ravens) and Matt Ioannidis (Washington, fifth round).

Tyler Matakevich, the consensus national defensive player of the year, was seriously overlooked and went to the Steelers (seventh round) and Robby Anderson and Kyle Friend, while undervalued, will get a more than fair shake with Todd Bowles and the New York Jets as UDFAs.  Friend did not go to the combine, but both he and Anderson ruled Temple pro day. The real pleasant surprise was Brandon Shippen, who went to the Miami Dolphins as an UDFA.

The biggest offenders in all of this were the Philadelphia Eagles, who chose to draft guys of questionable character in rounds five and after when they could have had all but one of the Temple players. If you are wondering why the Eagles have never won a Super Bowl, here it is:

Of the six players, the Eagles drafted on Day Three, three face character questions. Of the six players the Eagles drafted on Day 3, three face obvious character questions.  Fifth-round pick Wendell Smallwood (West Virginia), was arrested on criminal charges of witness intimidation back in 2014.  In the seventh round,  the Eagles dipped into the sordid world of the SEC and took LSU safety Jalen Mills, who was arrested and charged with battery of a woman in 2014. Later that round, they picked Florida defensive end Alex McCalister, who  was dismissed from the Gators for an undisclosed reason in December. When they say undisclosed,  it usually is worse than you imagine.

Meanwhile, in a related development, former first-round pick Johnny Manziel watched the first night of the draft from a bar and purchased 300 shots for his fellow patrons.

Tuesday: Double Loss

Thursday: Soul City Walker