It's not too surprising that Willie Taggert was fired at FSU, but I thought they'd wait until after the season. Taggert is a victim of the Peter Principle: you rise to your level of incompetence. He had a losing record overall (56-62) and has had only one winning program: Oregon, 7-5.
What is startling is that the alumni and boosters raised the $17M + to buyout his contract. Like what Michigan did to hire Harbaugh, this is what serious programs do, and why they are successful.
Could you see our alums ponying up serious dollars to buyout a coach and pay to hire a big-named one?

Kenny Tracy, a 3-star running back from Indianapolis, visited Temple over the weekend. Tracy is the younger brother of Iowa WR Tyrone Tracy and holds offers from Temple, West Virginia, Boston College and a number of MAC schools. Last year, Tracy rushed 198 times for 1,462 yards and 22 touchdowns. Tracy also caught 30 passes for 585 yards and 11 touchdowns. On the basketball court, Tracy averaged 15.3 points per game.

I'll pass along anything I hear about Tracy's visit.

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Temple guard Monty Scott will be our guest on this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly podcast.

Scott, who sat out last season after transferring to North Broad Street from Kennesaw State, will be talking to me around 11:15 a.m. tomorrow. So if you have a mailbag question for him, send it here and I'll pick a few to ask him during our interview.

And if you have some general questions for us as a staff for the podcast, you can post them here as well.

Thank you as always for listening, and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on iTunes!

Anderson and Bryant made an impact, Any coaches recruiting some game changers in FLORIDA. UCF seemed a lot faster.

Pat Kraft’s name had been mentioned by some national media when this job opened up.

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Interesting observations from Matt Rhule about completing his work at Temple and preference for hard practices, and from a Baylor player on staying committed because he thought he would be better off staying in the only "power" conference that wanted him.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...e-brewer-rebuilt-baylor-back-big-12-contender

Also illuminating about patience with a multi-year "process."

Beat the Bulls

GO Owls

We’re two weeks away. Let’s hear your starting 5.

Quinton Rose
Nate Pierre-Louis
Monty Scott
JP Moorman
Justyn Hamilton

7 to 7 . Track meet . Temple wasn’t ready defensively for that speed of plays . Need to really focus , get up and get lined up . No celebrating

Temple is #99 (8th out of 12 AAC teams) and apparently will “scrape for an NIT bid.”

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Once again.

John,
Any chance of getting the basketball schedule changed to this year's, instead of last year's, on the Front Page link?
Just for quick reference when on the go...

Thanks,
Mark

We're recording today around 5 p.m. If you have mailbag questions, send them here and we'll answer them on the podcast.

Thanks as always for listening!

Already law in California, with many states including Florida likely to follow:

"(FL) Gov. Ron DeSantis is backing efforts by Florida lawmakers seeking to lift NCAA rules that prevent college athletes from signing endorsement deals and profiting from their athletic prowess.

DeSantis joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers and former Florida State University football players Thursday to announce his support."

Clearly this move in Florida's GOP controlled government will affect the nature of "amateur" college sports in the state, other states, and the need for the NCAA itself.

GO Owls

Beat the Knights

Saturday night ABC slot as well...

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Very important ("no crap, Sherlock"). Beat the Bulls and we have 6 wins with each following game a possible win, even Cincy, leading to a bowl.

USF torched East Carolina and they will plan on doing the same to us, especially after watching SMU and UCF. But the bye adds invaluable time for our Owls to at least partially heal wounds both physical and psychological. I believe we have character and no doubt our guys are smart -- we will regroup and not act like deer in the headlights. .

ESPN too. Hope the camera crews find us in the Temple section. My best side is the back of my head.

GO Owls

Beat USF

Anyone remember him? Former commit. Playing well as a true freshman. Scored his first TD in that huge K State upset of Oklahoma.

I think we need less coach turnover to keep players like this.


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We won 71-67.

Starters: Alani, NPL, Q, JP, Justyn

Led by double digits most of the way. Starting lineup is still fluid.

Don't think we'll see Dame Dunn before Orlando at the earliest. Him and Josh could both be starters by year's end. Monty may be the best player on the team. Real solid perimeter depth.

As I said inm y previous post, we will win two games the rest of the years. We lack speed, speed and more speed. We may have the most three star players in our history allegedly coming in next year, but to borrow a quote from the ancient labor leader at the turn of the last century, Samuel Gompers: "WE WANT MORE!!" If Cinn. can recruit better players and Houston, both city schools, WHY CAN'T WE?? Not to mention UCF. Maybe it's the coaching. It seems under Rhule we did better with less. Now we need more talented players. It's as simple as that. I hope this team proves me wrong and can eek t a win at USF, but I'm beginning to fear if we play like this, we may not even beat U Conn. and Tulane.

It

Temple was beaten in every phase of the game today. Their receivers couldn't catch, the play selection was horrendous, stupid penalties continued that prolonged drives and the secondary proved once again that they were not ready for prime time.
All those P5 players that came back to Dallas proved just how inferior our talent was. What did we have, two come back? I never saw so many wide open receivers for them and they caught the ball, which was generally right on the money. I've said all along that our secondary wasn't very good and I was proven prescient today.
Let's hope we can take it out on UCF next week although I don't see us being any better on defense against another high-powered offense.

It is natural on a Temple-centric site to make last night’s game a negative event. But, as a football aficionado, I have to say I loved seeing UCF execute. Speed and a lot of it. Speed kills — and it did on Saturday. Defensively they didn’t do anything fancy (man coverage mostly). They won one-on-one battles. Offensively, my god. They were able to lean on a true freshman to run a turbo tempo attack. Amazing that this was a seven point game at halftime. Temple, I hope, uses the film as a learning tool. Remember, TU needs just one win to be Bowl Eligible — for a first year coach! Go Owls!

Really have to question their ability to get the team ready.

Man, that's a huge blow.