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This weekend's visitors and another commit

Linebacker Katin Surprenant just committed today. Zach Silverstein wrote about him earlier this week, and you can catch that story out on the front page.

Also in now on visits:

Michael Phoenix (WR - Kilgore College, TX)

Andreas Keaton (DB - Western Carolina, NC)

Tyrell Reed (RB - Hutchinson CC, KS)

Tyrei Washington (RB - City College of San Francisco, CA)

Commits Sultan Badmus and Ahmad Foster are in as well for their official visits.

Taking mailbag questions until 3 p.m. today for The Scoop

Good morning, everyone!

We're taking mailbag questions until 3 p.m. today for this week's episode of The Scoop. If you have something for us that you'd like to put on the agenda, please drop in your question here and we'll answer it on the podcast. This week's episode will include my interview with former Temple guard Lynn Greer, who is now Adam Fisher's chief of staff.

Thanks as always for listening!

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Scoop mailbag questions and programming note

Good morning, everyone.

We're recording this week's podcast tomorrow, so we're taking mailbag questions for this week's episode of The Scoop until 1 p.m. Friday.

We'll recap the St. Joe's and Bloomsburg games and talk about what's ahead for the Owls and anything else you'd like to put on the agenda.

Thanks as always for listening and for your support! If you have a second to subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, we'd greatly appreciate it!

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ARMAND BURRIS Legacy Son of a Temple Legend

Just yesterday and today I was in touch with Henry Burris (yes, THAT Henry Burris) about his son Armand a 6-0, 170 WR, '24 out of Stevenson (IL) HS. Apparently he just had a visit to Western Illinois but when I mentioned being back in the nest Henry said, 'we miss our TUFB Family' and that his son was a 'sleeper' and would make 'ANY College/University glad to have him.' That coming from a bona fide TU and CFL legend. If there's anything to the saying 'the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree ' then this kid should get at least a look. Both Armand and Henry would love to be part of the TUFB family again. Can we, as loyal Temple Football supporters, make enough noise to Coach Drayton and staff to bring Henry and his family BACK HOME with a legit offer?

New Big 5 Format. Meh.

I do think the tournament is cool. But can we do leaders versus legends or something?
Temple and Villanova not playing each other regularly is a broken tradition. It’s possible you don’t play them for years.

The idea that you fix the Big 5 by redoing it is weird. It was down because Nova was dominate, the other coaches at the time couldn’t carry their weight. Now you have new coaches at TU, Nova, and Joes… and you have parity and things looking up across the board. (I was actually really impressed by the Joes, and I can see how Billy Lange could be a real smooth recruiter).

So the point is, it would have been more competitive Big 5 this year regardless of the tournament.

I’m good with the tournament if we can figure out how to play Nova regularly. You don’t want the traditions to die.

And Nova was typically a ranked team on the schedule. So you could count on that one for SOS. Bigger question for TU going forward ….. how the heck are we gonna schedule a tough OOC. We will need it in this AAC to beat named teams early on.

Official Visitors - 12/1/23

Here's the list of this weekend's official visitors. A reminder that the transfer portal doesn't officially open for most players until Monday so there were never going to be any FBS transfers on campus this weekend.

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