I can't remember ever being as excited as I am this year for Temple football to start. Does anyone have any thoughts or insight on how effective the tight ends will be (blocking and receiving) in the offense this year? What's Colin Thompsons status? Would love to see a go to tight end receiving threat be a big part of the offense this year.

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Don't know if it's the former Gratz star who was a teammate of Aaron McKie and Rasheed Wallace, but he got busted for fraud in connection with a property on my old street in West Oak Lane. Moore was shot during a drive-by in high school, was arrested for armed robbery back in 2002. He's had a rough go.

6-8 kid who went to St. Bonaventure.

anyone else getting these annoying pop ups? I use my phone to access the site, but it keeps diverting me to the App Store for some stupid advertisement. Driving me nuts

This is not a question of which game you think that we will win, but if we are 1-1, which team would you rather defeat?

http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=/philly/blogs/rally/&id=320503852&

We were on life support the last 2 years. We officially died today. If you think this is bad, keep your eyes and ears closed during the 2017 recruiting class when the local talent is even stronger than this years crop.

"The pipeline from Broad and Vine to State College continues"

“Pat Chambers is working hard, getting a lot of the area’s top players,” Roman Catholic coach Chris McNesby said.

“Coach Chambers got to know me, my girlfriend, my entire family,” Carr said.

“Coach Dunphy is great,” he said. “I just wanted to get away, expand my horizons a bit, start something new. I think we can do something special at Penn State.”

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/rally/Roman-Catholics-Carr-commits-to-.html#uK6fPgjet0BP72S6.99

Does anyone know any of the starting times of our home games this year?
I'd like to travel to a game or two combined with seeing my grandson play in his Delaware HS game.
Do they just decide on the day of the game or the night before?
Thanks for your help.
Mark

Running back Jamie Gilmore, I was told today, will look to graduate from Temple and finish his career elsewhere, most likely at an FCS program.

Linebacker Rob Dvoracek has retired from football due to his knee injury and will be with the team as a student assistant coach, like Buddy Brown. It's a tough break for Dvoracek, who dealt with an infection following his knee injury. He's a nice kid and a solid player.

Defensive lineman Brenon Thrift, some of you have seen, is now at Lackawanna. He was dismissed from the program.

ND website has this game listed as 3:30. Is this confirmed?

So today marked the first day of media availability at Temple's preseason camp,and I just wanted to outline how we'll be approaching our camp coverage.

What we'll generally be doing is posting interviews not long after we get them. On some occasions, we'll be able to transcribe all or part of them and on others, we won't. We just want to get the content out there as quickly and as frequently as possible. So right now, we have today's interviews with Matt Rhule, P.J. Walker, Adonis Jennings and Robby Anderson, who spoke to the media for the first time since returning to the program.

Greg Paone talked to freshman safety Jeremiah Atoki and Drew Parent talked to freshman running back Ryquell Armstead, so we'll have interviews and stories from them as well.

The next media availability session is Monday, when defensive coordinator Phil Snow and his players will be available.

Some pretty sad news coming out about a former Owl.

It looks like Adrian Robinson has passed away.

My thoughts are with the Robinson's.

Sorry if I missed this or if it was brought up before, but I do not see Rob Dvoracek or Eric Lofton on the roster? What's up?

4 AAC teams projected to be in while Temple is listed in the next four out.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

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BEAT PENN STATE

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I think I saw him mentioned on here somewhere. Well, guess what:

https://hshoopselite.wordpress.com/game-stories/painter-cuts-his-list-to-7/

Pretty cool. Couldn't find what our actual rank was on the Princeton Review website though.

Link

Figured I'd take a look at what's still available for the Temple v Cow College game, now that the single tickets have been made available to the general public.

Per Ticket Master, the best available is section 202 (40ish Yard Line, visitors) row 13. No availability of anything in the lower bowl or the club level. I've gotta think a fair amount of those tickets went to Temple people.

Nice work outta us!

John and Drew,

Just have to say that was an outstanding interview. I will have my boss contact you to bill you for the time I just used while "working" to read that.

Here are a couple short Temple videos from media day. The first is the players that were there (Ioannidis, Matakevich, Friend and Young) and the second is an interview with Kevin Neghandi.

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Imhotep and Team Final point guard Daron Russell (2017 class) told me his offer list now includes the following programs: Temple, VCU, La Salle, Penn, Delaware, Hartford and Binghamton. I'd imagine more will be on the way after the way he played during the July live period.

When I asked him if Temple was still in the mix with his recruitment, he said, "Definitely."

This was all via text. We'll probably catch up some time soon over the next several weeks for an interview.

On the eve of training camp, whom do you think will be our offensive and defensive mvps for this season.

I see senior leadership being a key to this year's success. I like linemen Kyle Friend and Matt Ioannidis to be considered our most valuable players on each side of the ball. There are certainly bigger names and players with the stats to dazzle, but I think that these two will be critical whenever they are on the field and will play in such a way as to help their teammates around them.