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The former Owls OL/LB and longtime Berwick High coach died Friday after a battle with ALS. He was all-time winningest coach in Pennsylvania high school football history. I got to see Glen Mills and Strath Haven play up there. What a great atmosphere for high school football. Like "Friday Night Lights." Thousands of people in attendance. Got to see Ron Powlus his junior and senior years. They also had the Orlando brothers, Bo, who played at West Virginia, and Chris, who went to Pitt. Curry was legendary. Won 455 games at Berwick. He played at Temple from 1964-67, just when I started going to games at Temple Stadium. William Updegrove, the former Temple LB who got hurt and had to give up football last year, is a Berwick kid.

I would think the fact that we're the only school the Westtown School guard has taken an unofficial visit to has to be a positive sign for the Owls.

Now cue up the "Owls don't have a shot at this kid" comments.

Listening to Coach Rhule talk about the DBs, it makes me realize the defensive backfield will be a strong area for the Owls.

You have Sean Chandler, Nate Hairston, Artrel Foster, Kareem Ali, Cequan Jefferson and Derrek Thomas at CB, and Delvon Randall, Khiry Lucas, Nate L. Smith, Jyquis Thomas and Jeramiah Atoki at safety. Plus some of the walk-ons, like Kyle Baum, who from his high school days reminds me of Kevin Kroboth and Justin Gildea, are available. Then throw in the incoming freshmen, like Linwood Crump, Amir Tyler, Kimere Brown, Keyvone Bruton, Kareem Gaulden, Isaiah Graham-Mobley, Sam Franklin, and Benny Walls and you have some serious depth there. Of course, some of the incoming freshmen could be LBs after they hit the weightroom or they could be moved to offense, but there is some talent at defensive back.

I was at today's practice and spoke with Delvon Randall and Averee Robinson. Here's the link to that article: goo.gl/TNhfSr

Do you care who wins?

Temple comes in at #91. I thought this was an early April Fools List as the only AAC teams Temple is ahead of are ECU and Tulane but the article appears to be genuine.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-college-basketball-team-worth-1459459516?mod=e2tw

I found it an interesting read, yet am left with the doubtful thought that you can dive so deeply into statistics that the point is missed altogether:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/04/02/want-to-keep-your-ncaa-coaching-job-win-but-also-do-this/

GO Owls

Win C&W

Coach Rhule said he's going to concentrate on fullback this spring. Said he could play defense in the fall.

I was apprehensive about how the former OL coach would be as the RBs coach, but if you listen to the players, like Armstead for example, his switch to RBs coach is working out great. Wiesehan is teaching the RBs how the OL works and how they block, etc. Plus, he's on their butts like a drill instructor. Satterfield couldn't do that during games last year because he was calling plays. I'm pretty excited about the switch.

Matt Vender spoke with Temple offensive coordinator Glenn Thomas and sophomore running back Ryquell Armstead after Tuesday's practice. You can listen to those interviews and read his story on the front page or click here.

We have a story up on the front page - something brief, including audio from Matt Rhule's interview following today's practice. I also talked to Phil Snow, P.J. Walker and Khiry Lucas. Having said that, I must pass along my apologies, as we were asked to do the interviews outside and the wind makes it very tough to hear good portions of the interviews. All I can do is ask that we get the chance to do them inside next week.

As for today, no one really seemed pleased with what they saw, especially Rhule and Phil Snow. Rhule praised P.J. Walker's play, and Snow is pleased with what he's seen from players like Sean Chandler and Khiry Lucas, who has been moved to safety. The overarching theme today seemed to be that the redshirt freshmen are not playing with the toughness the coaches would like to see. Snow is usually a tough judge because he's been doing this for a long time, but he spent a lot of time yelling at both the first- and second-team defenses at the end of practice. He did speak highly of the play of Delvon Randall.

Matt Vender spoke with Ryquell Armstead and Glenn Thomas today, but he had to do those interviews outside as well, so we'll see what we can pass along there.

The former Owls standout OL is in his second season on the offensive line with Philadelphia Soul. Watching him on TCN right now against Cleveland in Soul's opener. It's a tape-delay broadcast. Game was at 7 p.m. Friday night. He's still a road grader.

Meant to put this on football board.

Saw this article. Not sure if it's news to most of you, but here ya go.

Link

.Temple is holding their first annual clinic for any high school or collegiate football coach. This caught my eye as Chris Ash from Rutgers will attend and speak at the clinic.

http://owlsports.com/news/2016/3/3/temples-first-annual-football-coaches-clinic.aspx

Temple is hosting Union Catholic 6-foot-10 junior forward/center Jordan Pierce on campus today. He has offers from East Carolina and Seton Hall. Per NJ.com, he averaged 7.8 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.

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I will never ever excuse Villanova for their part in keeping us out of the Big East a few years ago .

I am writing this more because it is a local team and most of us know the players on their team . It gives us an easy way to compare where we are as a program vs. one that is truly a high national program . Villanova is so far ahead of us in almost every category [ coaching , recruiting etc ] . Just watch the games and you will see we are not even in the same league with them .

Great recruiting allows you to do more as a coach on the floor . Better shooters , athletes and leaders on the floor gets you where Villanova is right now . They are recruiting very talented four year players and not recruiting one and done's . To see them play defense and share the ball is just fabulous if you are a true basketball fan . They are playing the right way and everyone on the team is for the team and couldn't care less about individual goals.

This is the difference between competing with the big boys and total mediocrity .

I have confirmed one visitor for Tuesday's practice already:

2018 Saint Peter's Prep (NJ) athlete Brendan Ekwughalu.

I'll be at practice on Tuesday, along with @John Di Carlo, and will share the other visitors that we run into.

According to today's Sports Business Journal, the architects who did the FAU stadium have been hired to build a 30K stadium. Rest is behind a pay wall. Go Owls.

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Search/SBJ-Articles.aspx?q=Temple+stadium

Has anyone noticed the Inquirer, DNews, philly.com CSN coverage of Villanova where it's all Nova all the time? They're actually running out of stuff to cover having to do stories about the 3 white guys who sit on the bench to the priest who sits on the bench. And as much as I despise Nova, they deserve it. Before you start complaining, (a large part of the media contingent are Temple alums) we got similar coverage before the ND football game. Meanwhile, before October, about all you'll read about Temple hoops is a few graphs when we sign someone not likely to merit a huge story and hopefully a story detailing Trey Lowe's recovery to good health. This kind of coverage makes a program relevant. Hope the admin has noticed this along with the acres of empty seats at the LC.

Read the front-page story on last Saturday's visitors to practice. That's an impressive list.

Long time MBB season ticket holder. I was at the Friday's DH and the elite 8 yesterday. Two major takeaways for me was that TU's MBB team sorely lacks: Passion and Foul Shooting.

This is simplistic but all four teams crashed the boards and dived for each loose ball. After watching TU shoot fouls for these past many years, I was amazed at how good each team shoot their foul shots. Looking on line at the box scores only confirmed what I saw. Foul shooting percentage was around 80%.

I understand the lack of passion---no further comment, but I would like to know if we even practice foul shooting because we are awful at this part of the game. Games can be won/loss due to foul shooting.

Are up 42-32 at halftime vs. Michigan in quarterfinals of WNIT.

Sorry to post it on men's board.