Complete Coverage of the On-Campus Stadium Announcement

An empty Howard Gittis Room at the Liacouras Center yesterday where university exterminators spent the afternoon looking for crickets.

An empty Howard Gittis Room at the Liacouras Center yesterday where university exterminators spent the afternoon looking for crickets.

That’s it, an empty Howard Gittis Room on a Sunday when nothing was happening in Philadelphia sports and an announcement of an on-campus stadium would have been front-page news in all three Philadelphia daily papers and right at the top of all the sportscasts.
It would seem to me that the uni should now give up this pipe dream and begin to negotiate in good faith with the Philadelphia Eagles because the other options–Franklin Field and Chester–would be a Doomsday Scenario for Temple football.
Maybe the Phillies will move to Oakland and the Owls can slide into a more fan-friendly Citizens Bank Park.
That seems to be a scenario just as plausible as coming up with $300 million of private funds to plop a stadium down at 15th and Norris before 2018.