Creating a new thread and also passing along some useful links. I'm working on getting these links on our front page too for easier access.

OwlScoop.com Scholarship Board and log

Rivals Transfer Portal Search

The article says Temple received $9.7 million from the AAC.

ESPN Orlando Adds 8-Team Event​

Multiple sources confirmed with The Bracketeer that Bradley, Liberty, Princeton, Rhode Island, Temple, Towson, UC San Diego, and Vermont will headline an additional Orlando ESPN Event field next season. These teams will play a three-game, eight-team bracket while at Disney World.
There is no timetable for an official announcement. Official matchups are also TBD. Dates are expected to be the week of Thanksgiving in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

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Login to view embedded media Now that the season is over I feel that it is appropriate to start this thread. Budd and Zion were teammates at West Catholic. I think Budd and Zion are very close friends. Budd had an unbelievable season at Merrimack and will be one of the best guards in the portal.

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This hit Twitter about an hour ago.

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I did reach out to Chris Clark and left him a voice mail, but I haven't heard back from him yet.

However, a source I trust said Clark is set to become the next boys basketball coach and an assistant athletic director at St. Joe's Prep.

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Anyone know his potential replacement?

My story on Manhattan transfer Masiah Gilyard, who will give the Owls one of the nation's better rebounding guards.

Good morning, everyone. I posted this on the hoops board and wanted to share it here, too.

If I can record a podcast this week, it probably will not be until Thursday night or Friday morning. I'm heading out of town today for a funeral and won't be back until tomorrow night. So no mailbag this week, but we'll have one next week.

I do have some audio from my conversations with Maddux Trujillo, Gevani McCoy and Masiah Gilyard that I'd like to share, so I'll see if I can put something together in the next couple days.

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Good morning, everyone. If I can record a podcast this week, it probably will not be until Thursday night or Friday morning. I'm heading out of town today for a funeral and won't be back until tomorrow night. So no mailbag this week, but we'll have one next week.

I do have some audio from my conversations with Maddux Trujillo, Gevani McCoy and Masiah Gilyard that I'd like to share, so I'll see if I can put something together in the next couple days.

Thanks for your patience.

I talked to Gevani McCoy over the weekend. The story is up on the front page now and you can read it here as well.

Maybe missing some but can’t imagine who…

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Minicamp invitee:
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Did Keeler bring in his own person or people to run the Temple football social media? It has been run about as good as I have seen for any Temple sport (I know the bar isn’t particularly high). There is at least one new post a day, regular videos from spring camp and season tickets are regularly promoted. In addition, there has been more media exposure locally (which isn’t surprising with how the program has struggled).

This seems like a good idea as well:

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I know the football program needs to win games to elevate the program again but hopefully Keeler figures that out as he seems to get it around recruiting (focusing on the footprint) and promoting the team.

I talked to Temple's new quarterback about an hour ago. I'm heading out of town for the next day, but I'll have a story up soon.

A few excerpts and notes from our conversation:

McCoy said programs like UNLV and Kent State reached out when he hit the portal, but Temple was the first. As Kyle first reported, he came in for a visit Monday and Tuesday of this week.

What sold him on Temple?

" I sat and and talked with my dad, and we just talked with the staff, and sat there and watched plays for just for some time and and it seems like a really good fit," he told me. "So just from there, I would say that we knew that's where we wanted to be."

McCoy said he was familiar with Tyler Walker's work from when McCoy and Idaho played against Montana State back in 2023, a game Montana State won, 24-21.. McCoy went 22 of 29 passing for two touchdowns in that game while Tommy Mellott, the player he watched on film this week, went 12 of 24 for two touchdowns. So when McCoy and his father watched film with Walker and K.C. Keeler earlier this week, it was kind of a full-circle moment.

McCoy, as I'm sure you all know by now, put up some big numbers at Idaho and was a Walter Payton Award finalist in 2023. He got off to a solid start this past season at Oregon State, leading the Beavers to wins in four of their first five games. He threw for 147 yards and ran for 91 yards and three touchdowns in a 39-31, double overtime win over Colorado State back on Oct. 5, but he wasn't the same after sustaining a shoulder injury in that game and eventually lost the starting job.

"It's all a part of the game, and it all comes with the with the position that I play," McCoy said when I asked him about the ups and downs of this past season. "I know what I signed up for. There's been a lot of good times. There's been a few lows, but that's all a part of it."

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