We've lost our giant.

RIP John Chaney

And what will it take?
Jay Wright took about 4 seasons to have a breakthrough.
Matt Rhule was three seasons (though not totally analogous, but I think you get my point.)

So when do we think we can have a breakthrough? What will it take? Sometimes you can point to a turning point win or a game changing player. This year is a pandemic so perhaps we scratch it from the books. Just curious to others thoughts as I have been away from the board for a while (COVID had me lose some interest).

I feel a win for no reason.

I referenced this story last week following John Chaney's passing. I wrote this back in 2006 for Temple Review (now Temple Magazine) when Chaney retired. I was fortunate to be able to spend some time around him for this assignment and had a lot of fun writing it.

Hi, everyone. We're talking mailbag questions up until 4 p.m. today for this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly OwlScoop.com podcast. If you haven't already, you can subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you access your podcasts.

We'll have some audio from my interview with Jeff Knowles.

So if you have mailbag questions, please drop them in here and we'll look forward to answering them on the podcast. Thank you for listening!

Battle off the bench.

New video episode on Temple's defense this season. The good, the bad and where the Owls can go from here. Let me know what you think!
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Hi, everyone. We're talking mailbag questions up until 4 p.m. today for this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly OwlScoop.com podcast. If you haven't already, you can subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you access your podcasts.

We'll have an interview with Mardy Collins that's being pre-recorded, as well as some audio from some of our interviews from the Remembering John Chaney series.

So if you have mailbag questions, please drop them in here and we'll look forward to answering them on the podcast. Thank you for listening!

This was another one of the expected transfers. Griff Sestili has entered the portal.

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Sestili was entering his fifth year in the program and had yet to see regular playing time. He had carved out a role on special teams but will look to find playing time on offense elsewhere.

Sure to be an emotional game.

I called Temple defensive coordinator Jeff Knowles on Thursday to talk about Kobe Wilson and we ended up discussing Wilson, the defense and a whole lot more. Lots of good info here. This is Part One of our conversation with Knowles. There will be a Part Two tomorrow.

As I just posted in the Build your perfect Temple basketball team thread, we are tentatively scheduled to have Temple great Marc Jackson on The Scoop tomorrow. We'll ask him about how he would spend his $15 to put together the perfect Temple team, ask him about the current squad and have him share some stories about his playing days on North Broad Street and in the NBA.

If you have mailbag questions for him or for us, please post them here and we'll see if we can get to a few with Marc.

Thank you for listening!

ANybody remember when Coach k=last appeared at Liacouras. I remember he had a wheel chair which he used at times.

Temple's added a pair of preferred walk-ons to the 2021 class

Bobby Salla - DB - American Heritage HS (Delray Beach, FL)

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Salla chose to walk on at Temple over an offer from Youngstown State.

Zach Schneider - LB - Kingsway Regional (NJ)

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Schneider, a high school teammate of Temple safety Alex Odom, chose Temple over a number of D2 offers. Schneider had 44 tackles and an interception in five games this season.

I will confirm this in the morning, but Brittingham’s in Lafayette Hill, Montgomery county will most likely be playing the game on their tv’s tomorrow, if you live in the area and wanted to go there for the game.

It is so frustrating that closed minded business czars is preventing the move to power 6. Instead of being ahead of the curve and cultivate newer teams from different conferences leading to better match ups creating more competitive games. The Cincy vs. GEORGIA game as a prime example .

With technology and social media and the depth of quality football players developing in high school AND deeper pool of qualified coaching can support a move to a power 6.

Current set up you see so many kids transferring or worried about how many stars they are so they get the scholarship to big time programs that they get list in the shuffle too many times.

They are affraid to lose influence on the current power and money structure. Kinda like the coal industry.

Pac 12 is a joke.....like a really bad dad joke
Big 12 is overrated ....basically 7on7 football with helmets
AAC is top heavy
BIG TEN gets too much credit
Notre Dame still stuck living in past and think to highly of themselves and can't really compete with big boys
SEC has the best talent and toughest competition

The Wu Tang Clan said it best

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More good stuff here from Sam's conversation with Jeff Knowles. This installment includes Knowles' thoughts on the defensive line transfers and the defensive backfield.

Aaron McKie just finished a quick media session with reporters to talk about John Chaney's passing. @Sam Cohn will have more coverage in a bit. Here's an excerpt from his opening statement:

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@SamNeumann got some interesting stuff from the promising freshman linebacker. Lots of insight about how he feels about the program and what Rod Carey and his staff are doing to keep the players engaged at a time when the team has been hit hard by the NCAA's Transfer Portal.

Coach Chaney touched a lot of lives and gave many an opportunity where others may have not.

Our condolences to all of his family, Owl staff members, players, fans and friends.

He and Harry Litwack are probably drawing up zones tonight1

Scott Frost, now Heupel. It's beginning to sound like "Temple South".

I took a look back at Khalif Battle's third game in a Temple uniform and broke down some film on what he did well along with areas he can improve up in my latest story. Let me know what you think!

It seems mighty early, but the SEC and ACC will announce their 2021 football schedules this week. Any idea on the American?

Totally unnecessary. Temple graduate walking his dog. Age 25.