Time stamped tomorrow morning...weird.

Simmons to Temple!?

Khalif will be teaming up with Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson in Delaware for the 87ers if/when he returns from Israel. I'd pay to go watch him.

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Wyatt

Flanagan High School outside linebacker Adrienne Talan told OwlScoop.com this afternoon that he is, in fact, coming to Temple for an official visit. He'll arrive tomorrow.

Talan said he will choose between Temple, Pitt and Nebraska.

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Former Temple point guard Pepe Sanchez will be one of four Big 5 Hall of Fame inductees on Monday, April 13, at the Palestra. He's going in along with Stan Hochman (media), Ugonna Onyekwe (former Penn forward) and Bill Raftery in what's being described as a "special category."

Pretty cool and varied class and a great accomplishment for Sanchez, the best Temple point guard I ever saw with my own eyes.

Ironically enough, when I asked Fran Saturday about the last time he had a forward like Obi Enechionyia, he mentioned Onyekwe, who was a very good player at Penn.

I didn't see this posted on the site, and thought it was interesting.


"When Temple football landed a verbal commitment from four-star recruit Kareem Ali Jr. of Timber Creek High this July ...
(t)he addition also showed that Temple, located just over the boarder
in Philadelphia, remains a serious player for some of New Jersey's top
recruits."

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Is Rutgers sweating Temple?

John

Typically you hear teams over- recruiting and then stashing a kid or gray shirting them. If TU runs the gambit they are only at 21 their full allotment. Have you heard any whispers about any last minute surprises in case they don't get all 4
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FYI. Gotta love Twitter.

http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=12256253

If you use Twitter and you're not following us already, please do at @OwlScoop_com and @kylegauss. As things pick up tomorrow, we'll be posting a lot of stuff to Twitter first as it breaks, especially tomorrow morning.

We'll have stories and interviews tomorrow from Matt's press conference, interviews with assistants, hopefully something from Kareem Ali and virtually anyone and everyone we can talk to.

John do you know why Williams only played the last minute of the USL game?

Two votes for the Owls. SMU ranked #23 and Tulsa picked up eight votes.

With all the excitment around signing day I decided to focus my attention on making highlight videos for 2 of our great players. PJ Walker and Jalen Fitzpatrick, would have loved to make one for both Tyle Matakevich and Tevon Young both, but I could not find enough highlight plays for them and i dont have the game film. I wish Temple would start making highlight videos for our best players, other schools from the power 5 do this and it helps raise the players profile and also with recruiting.

PJ Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoOnJqVGvQ&list=UUwhJ-QvvCE571IBiD2Qo39A

Jalen Fitzpatrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABsbjE7dmrc&list=UUwhJ-QvvCE571IBiD2Qo39A&index=2

Next year we have 3 games in the Puerto Rico TipOff and 4 vs the Big 5. I hope we can get at least 4 of the other 6 non-conference games against teams in the top 50.
Something like:
Syracuse/Duke/Virginia
Georgetown/Butler/St.Johns
UCLA/Stanford/Cal
WesternKentucky/Murray State/Davidson
Gonzaga/Xavier/VCU/Wichita State

Temple got Bergen Catholic wide receiver Corey Gaarn to commit this weekend as a walk-on, which could be an under-the-radar pickup for the Owls. He reminds a lot of people of former Temple wideout Ryan Alderman - a slot receiver who can find seams in the field.

His teammate, offensive guard Joe Woerner, will also be coming to Temple as a walk-on.

Corey Gaarn

I just mentioned him in another thread, but it looks like Temple will in fact be getting a visit this weekend from Canadian defensive end Mathieu Betts, who plays at Vieux High School in Montreal.

Take a look at his film. The kid can play. Has great hands, really gets off blocks well.

I talked to Brian Neubert from the Purdue Rivals site earlier this week. They do a nice job over there and are very thorough. Brian told me that at the time it looked like Betts might commit to Purdue, but he told me to keep an eye on Wednesday and that if Betts got past Wednesday without committing, he could be moving along to another visit, and that's what has happened.

A source I spoke with this morning confirmed that Betts will be visiting this weekend.

Betts

2015 commit Delvon Randall is ranked 11th in Rivals "Prep top 25" for the class of 2015. Nice job Delvon !!

http://sports.yahoo.com/…/f…/recruiting/rankings/rank-3562/0

John/Kyle...Has Shaun Bradley a 6-2, 200 RB with 4.4 40 speed out of Rancocas Valley HS (NJ) committed to the Owls? Owls 24/7 is reporting that he has.

The lead recruiter for Marshall with T.J. Simmons, the RB the Owls covet, is former Temple DL coach Sean Cronin, who also is Chuck Heater's son-in-law.

Anyone know anything on him? 3 star DL who decommited from Cuse this weekend and visiting Temple right now. Sounds like Minnesota and TU front runners offering.

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50-46 @ ECU. 11-0 run for ECU to end the game.

ECU beats Cincy today! The AAC tournament will be wide open.

Per Twitter Looks like 3-star DE end Dana Levine of Florida has de-committed from Syracuse to Temple. @D1_Prospect17

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Interesting that USF took Tulsa to overtime today. Let's hope we have an easier time with USF on Wednesday.

Tip 'o the hat to the headline writer on this one. Still chuckle when I read it.

And it's true.

GO Owls

JDC,

Your recent posts have put the state of the team on a realistic footing. We have strong areas like the defensive back field,and solid areas like the defensive line,but areas of concern like the offensive line, skill positions like running back , wide outs and tight ends and the truth be told what would we do if our QB is injured. There are prospects in each of these areas who might emerge including some freshmen,but the quality of our incoming class and the depth in the team would leap if,a combination of A. Jennings,M.Betts, TJ Simmons, A. Talan and D. Williams sign next week. Otherwise we look to be a team that will struggle to match the win total of last year,s team.There are still sleepers on our roster who might emerge, but I don,t see a no 2 QB or even a solid kicking game to take us over the hump.

Doc

Does anyone know when Hooter the Owls b-day party is? I thought I was on Feburary 14th against ECU but I am not sure I think we are undeated on his birthday and it always brings a very good crowd. Also does anyone know if there is going to be a white out game this year? I would imagine it would be against UConn but I am not sure if they are having one this year.