Former Temple stars Mardy Collins and Dustin Salisbery will be with us on The Scoop this Wednesday. They're looking forward to answering your mailbag questions, so please post them here and we'll get to as many as we can on the podcast.

Beyond the countless stories they can tell about their playing days at Temple, overseas and in the NBA, Collins and Salisbery are both graduating and receiving their Temple degrees this Friday, May 7, so we'll be talking about that milestone as well.

And as I'm sure you all know since it's been discussed in this forum, Collins and Saisbery are the fathers of talented basketball players who are now becoming Division-I caliber recruits. DeMajh Salisbery is a class of 2023 point guard who just finished his sophomore season at La Academia, a Lancaster charter school, and he plays his AAU ball with Philly Pride. And class of 2024 guard Madden Collins recently finished his freshman season at South Carolina's Irmo High School and plays his AAU ball with the PCH Nightrydas.

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We're taking football mailbag questions for this week's podcast up until 3 p.m. tomorrow. If you have one for us, please drop it in here and we'll answer it on the show.

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We are currently at 22 commitments and we are waiting on responses from Williams (LB), Dioubate (DT), Weaver (DE probably a DT) and Saloman (WR). If we run the table with these 4 that puts us at 26, more than likely a couple of the 26 don't sign, get grey-shirted or don't qualify, figure there are one or two others out there. Who are you hearing? Any lineman? Is Wiggins the former Cane commit still coming this weekend.

Thanks

Christian Barmore to the Patriots Rd 1 #30
Gary Brightwell to the Giants Rd 6 #169
Quincy Roche to the Steelers Rd 6 #216

Great article about the QB depth chart. However, will even be allowed to attend the games in person?

Former walk-ons Mariano Valenti and Rory Bell both earned scholarships, they announced today on twitter.

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Valenti originally committed to Carey's NIU program as a scholarship player over offers from Toledo, Kent State and Central Michigan. He came to Temple as a walk-on transfer and was forced to sit out the 2020 season. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Valenti was part of the quarterback competition this spring and ended the spring as the presumptive No. 3 quarterback as a redshirt-freshman. He has four years of eligibility left.

Bell joined Temple as a walk-on kicker last summer and successfully connected on 5-of-5 field goal attempts and 3-of-4 extra point attempts after replacing Will Mobley halfway through the season. The true freshman Bell struggled on kickoffs, however, and sent five of his 17 kickoff attempts out of bounds. Bell will have four seasons of eligibility left.

Valenti and Bell have been added to our scholarship board here: https://temple.forums.rivals.com/threads/2021-temple-football-scholarship-board.13296/

Hopefully this is wrong but Temple is projected last in the AAC (and #119 in FBS overall).

More to come on this but Rod Carey just announced that Georgia transfer D'Wan Mathis left the spring as the starting quarterback.

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The program is down one backup QB. I am guessing he is looking for a landing spot that he has a better chance of getting on the field.

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We're taking mailbag questions once again for this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly podcast.

Temple wrapped up spring practice after three weeks, and third-year head coach Rod Carey met with reporters Tuesday to talk about what he saw. The big news of course is that he's named Georgia transfer D'Wan Mathis as the Owls' starting quarterback heading into preseason camp, but he provided some insight into the position battles at running back, safety and linebacker, as well as some injury updates.

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Hello, everyone.

We're taking mailbag questions once again for this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly podcast.

If you have any questions about the roster, recruiting or anything else that's on your mind, please drop them in here and we'll be happy to answer them on the podcast. Thanks so much for listening.

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We're taking mailbag questions up until 4 p.m. tomorrow for this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly podcast. If you have questions about what's going on with spring football position battles, recruiting or even something quirky or off-topic, drop it in here and we'll get to as many as we can on the show.

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Although we're in the thick of spring football, there's plenty to talk about this week on The Scoop when it comes to basketball. Aaron McKie and his staff doled out four offers to class of 2022 recruits in Roman Catholic High School's Dan Skillings, Phillips (Orlando) High School's Ernest Udeh, Pocono Mountain-West High School's Christian Fermin and Orlando Christian Prep's A.J. Brown.

@Sam Cohn talked to Fermin today and we'll have that story up tomorrow and audio from that interview in the podcast, so send us your recruiting and roster questions or anything else that's on your mind.

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Mathis and Russo included...

Weston Kramer, a second team All-MAC DT has committed to Temple. He’ll enroll in the summer with one year of eligibility left.

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Kramer started 30 games over the last three seasons and graded out as Northern Illinois’ best player in 2020. A run stopper, Kramer recorded 95 tackles, 12 TFL and 3.5 sacks in his career at NIU.

We received an email this morning informing us that today's scheduled Zoom session with Rod Carey has been postponed to a later date. The team was not scheduled to practice today.

Here's how things look for the rest of the week in terms of media availability:

Tuesday, April 20 Practice #11 Nick Bags, Isaac Moore, George Reid

Wednesday, April 21 Practice #12 Ty Mason, Edward Saydee, Manny Walker

Thursday, April 22 No Practice Jeff Knowles, Mike Uremovich

Friday, April 23 Practice #13 Trey Blair, Darius Pittman, Jordan Smith

Defensive end Evan Boozer, safety Jalen Ware, wide receiver Amad Anderson and linebacker Kobe Wilson spoke with reporters just a few minutes ago. We'll have a story up later from @Sam Cohn. In the meantime, here are some notes via Twitter from today's session.

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https://twitter.com/jdicarlo/status/1383838667752439813?s=20

Stockriser Alert - WeR1 PG Nashon Hyland has been absolutely dominant on Day 1 at Under Armour Chicago. Shifty handle, tremendous vision and perimeter shotmaking ability. Without question a high major talent


Did we under value his talent? Seem to b making a name for himself of late

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Good times. If this happens at any other university, the president is axed.

Never heard that one.

Our worst nightmare about to happen! The Nova BOT is calling for emergency meeting next Monday to vote but this seems like a done deal already. This will include all sports including D1 football.

Hope this link works. I'll just copy and paste if link doesn't work.

As reported by Mark Brennen, 247/Fight on State

Queue the Wright to UNC rumors in 3..2..1.
Nothing would make me happier.
They can afford him.
UNC is next level.
I bet he would like good in a Carolina Blue suit.