Can people stop with the “run plays to get Barry open for three’s?” Yes, you could get him running around screens for open three’s but then he’d be JJ Reddick. There’s a reason he was at Dartmouth. Good guy to have in helter-skelter end of game situations when people are scrambling and leave him unguarded like today. Love to have him back though but hopefully not needed to play 25 minutes.

So much change and uncertainty surrounds this team it’s hard to make any kind of predictions, but with that said cast your vote.

No line yet but I'm hearing that Dunn will play. It'll be interesting to see if Yetna and/or Caleb Murphy play.

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LB Lance Dixon has them on short list.

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Damian Dunn made the all-rookie team. Khalif Battle was named to the third team All-AAC squad. JP Moorman won the conference's sportsman award.

Jeremiah Williams somehow didn't make the all-rookie team despite being among the freshman league leaders in almost every category.

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Very interesting

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Temple has made the Top 5 for 2019 power forward Chase Paar, according to Rivals.com's Corey Evans. Xavier, Nebraska, UMBC and George Mason also made Paar's Top 5.

Paar plays for Glenelg Country in Maryland for high school and on Team Thrill on the AAU circuit. Paar also had offers from schools like Kansas State, UMass and St. Bonaventure.

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Looks like the schedule is set.

20 conference games
Villanova
St. Joe's
La Salle
NJIT
URI
Virginia Tech

Home games are still up in the air. The city is making it really difficult to host with testing requirements above conference requirements. Could move games to the suburbs. Could be all road games.

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Battle is the one.

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Might as well start a thread on this. Let's have some fun. We obviously will be looking to the portal for any bigs and unlikely to recruit any big w talent out of HS. These are just guesses at this point- maybe bigs in major conferences that are unhappy with playing time, players succeeding in lower level conf, etc that are not in the portal yet but. . .

I'll start with 6'11 Santi Aldama at Loyola MD. He was the MVP for U18 Europe playing for Spain. In 2 years at Loyola he can score, rebound, block shots, and stretch the floor by shooting 3s. Mckie would love a big to stretch the floor. He is one of the leading scorers, rebounders, and shot blockers in the Patriot league. He's intriguing but not sure if he could do the dirty work in the AAC. Time will tell.

The article requires an ESPN+ subscription but pretty interesting read....

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I could be missing something, but I don’t see him listed as a commit. Is he still committed to the program?

Obviously the roster is in need of bigs that can play. I realize that Sanders is a project, but I don’t hear any rumors of serious interest from any high school C/PFs. I am expecting/hoping McKie can grab a transfer

I was really encouraged when the Owls hired Aaron Mckie and thought he would have an immediate impact on recruiting. Losing local 4 star PG Greer to Dayton of all places suggests same old same old.

After Dunphy ruined our basketball program, we demoted him up to Athletic Director! And, here are the results...

WORST ACADEMIC YEAR OVERALL WINNING % OF OUR TWO MAJOR MENS SPORTS FOOTBALL + BASKETBALL

1958 - Football 0-8 and MBB 6-19... for an overall winning % of 0.182
2020 - Football 1-6 and MBB 4-10... for an overall winning % of 0.238 (Dunphy AD)
2013 - Football 2-10 and MBB 9-22... for an overall winning % of 0.256 (Dunphy MBB)
2006 - Football 1-11 and MBB 12-18... for an overall winning % of 0.310 (Dunphy MBB)

It's embarrassing.

I swear when I go back to a Temple sporting event next if they play the "Greatness Doesn't Quit" bullshit I'm going to be triggered. GET A MIRROR! Please.

My apologies to anyone I tried to suggest to that we shouldn't care. This is awful.