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Join fellow Temple alumni at Philly-themed Shorty's Flatiron in NYC at 6pm on Tuesday, 12/22, as the #24 Owls take on Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl! Temple looks to capture its 3rd bowl win in program history, and first since 2011.

Our new game watch location for 2015, Shorty's Flatiron, will feature the game on numerous TVs with sound included. Shorty's will also be serving up New York's BEST CHEESESTEAKS, and will offer TU alumni happy hour-priced beer and mixed drinks throughout the game!

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The ball goes off Josh Browns leg with 36 seconds to go and St. Joe's up by one . They have a full 30 second shot clock and there is a timeout by the refs to make sure it went off of Brown . I say this because the coach has two minutes to come up with his strategy .

His strategy : let them dribble away the entire 30 seconds , throw up a shot that now reduces the 6 second difference and wish and hope in 4 to 4 1/2 seconds someone could advance and hit a shot .

Are you kidding me ? that type of strategy had about a 5 % chance of working

Here is my strategy : pressure the ball and go for a steal for the first fifteen seconds of clock . I mean go all out to steal the ball and if you foul then so be it . When there is 15 seconds on the shot clock then foul the worst foul shooter on the floor . Temple had 9 fouls so it was going to be a two shot foul .

If he makes one you have 20 seconds to tie score with a two or win with a three .
If he make both you can still tie with a three .
You have a 30- 40% chance in this scenario

Our coach picks the 5 percenter !!!!

Retiring on top at 67! He realized he couldn't give this his all. Unfortunately, stubborn Dunphy CAN'T go out on top, but if he is the great guy that many think that he is, he will follow in the recent footsteps of Bo Ryan, Kobe, David Ortiz and Michael Cuddyer.

i have four tickets in section 113 , row E seats , 7 , 8 , 9 and 10 for games . Directly at center court and third row back . Looking right at both benches .

I have four tickets for both the Delaware State game Saturday , Dec 19 at 4 pm and Houston Saturday January 2 at 12 noon .

I also have a parking pass for each game in the parking garage behind the center .

$ 100.00 per game will get you four tickets and a parking pass .
If you buy both games then total will be $ 190.00

First come first serve

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I see he is back on the commitment list after spending this season at prep school, also up to 3 stars. They have him listed as a RB but last year was recruited as a LB, nice size would love for him to be able to play on the defensive side since we need depth there. Have you heard anything about this

Word is starting to spread that Anthony Russo is backing out of his commitment to Rutgers. Anyone know anything?

Silent. Of course. Worst current Big 5 coach= Fran Dunphy (I'm including Donahue). Worst Big 5 recruiter= Fran Dunphy. Out of the 5 city coaches, who has never been to the sweet 16? THAT'S RIGHT, he's our loveable loser, Fran. Would trade Dunphy for any coach in the big 5 this second. Frankly, he's losing the good guy image, because he doesn't do what's right and step down ASAP. Coming off as greedy and stubborn.

Temple, Rutgers and Indiana were other finalists.

http://sports.yahoo.com/byu/football/recruiting/player-DyMelle-Parker-159570

What will the Jets do with Muhammad Wilkerson? The Jets’ hugely talented 3-4 defensive end, Muhammad Wilkerson, just had a Watt-like game against the Titans and mobile quarterback Marcus Mariota: three sacks (for a loss of 27 yards), two tackles for loss, a pass defensed and a forced fumble. He’s the kind of player who can play wide in a 3-4 defense, or inside in a 4-3, and he can play the pass and the run with equal efficiency. Question is, will the Jets find some common ground with Wilkerson, their best defensive player, so he can be a Joe Klecko-type all-time Jet. I talked to Wilkerson on Sunday night, and make no mistake: He wants to stay in New Jersey, where he is from. But he has used this season of not being signed as a spur to play at his peak. “I don’t think about it very much, because I am focused on doing everything I can to help this team win,” Wilkerson said. “But I just use it as motivation. I understand it’s just business, and I’m not going to be a distraction for my team.” Wilkerson said his goal this year was to be more consistent under new coach Todd Bowles, and there’s little question he has been. On a defense with Darrelle Revis and David Harris, he’s clearly become the most valuable defender—and if he gets to the open market, which is unlikely, he’ll be the most valuable free-agent in 2016.

Benny Walls, a DB from St Joe Prep had committed to Temple, per Twitter!

I know that I might get jumped on for starting this thread, but in the event that we don't move forward with our OCS, what should our plan be if we have to stay at the Linc. Obviously we would have to extract major concessions from the Eagles. Free rent, more favorable parking allowances, and consistent field signage would be obvious starting points, but how about scheduling? I'd think that we'd need to raise the level of opponents and not bring in any "weak sisters" other than Army, Villanova, or possibly Delaware. An annual offering of a Big 10,SEC, ACC, and prestigious program like BYU, Air Force, SD State or Penn State or Notre Dame in order to raise the level of interest to our casual/"bandwagon" fan.

The question is simple, and the answer is easy.

Would our conference brethren like Cincinatti, UCONN, and Memphis allow this type of 3 year slide? Answer: No way in hell!

Those are three programs with expectations of trying to get to the Final Four. Or have things gotten so bad we now consider ourselves aligned with Tulane?

Dunphy the expectations manager has only ever had a goal of making the tournament, and now we can't even do that!

If we're not committed to being a full spectrum athletics department, we should get out of this conference and pack it in. This is a joke!

These finance gurus running our university to find a way to fix this in a hurry.

Here are the pertinent email addresses if you'd like to do the same...

president@temple.edu, Neil Theobald
patrick.kraft@temple.edu, Dr. Pat Kraft, AD
keviclar@temple.edu, Kevin Clark, Exev VP and COO
cangelos@temple.edu, Craig Aneglos, Deputy AD

I am planning to write a very respectful, measured, and thoughtful note. I hope anyone who has interest in salvaging this thing will do the same. Happy writing!

Btw, there has been an expression via Facebook that the admin wants a new basketball arena? I really hope there isn't a lick of truth to that because it is just beyond stupid, as we can't even fill the place we have (though we suck right now, so it's not a shock). We shouldn't throw another dime at this program until we pay for a coach that can recruit and win. Our facilities are beautiful already IMO.

What gives? Are we recruiting him? A legacy player out of Cherry Hill East and is now a legit 6-10? You can't teach that! His father told me he grew 1 1/2 inches over the summer! Word also has it that his game is really starting to come around! Don't we have schollies available?

I don't understand! Somebody explain it to me! He has the bloodlines! "]["U bloodlines!!

Any word on what the attendance will be like for our big rival? Here is to hoping the place will be packed and rocking!! Go Owls!!!

Like NovaFan, I too can find a silver lining to this game. We're one game closer to the end of Dunph's tenure at Temple!

Dunphy alone lost the game against Saint Joseph's. The following mistakes were atrocious: .

a) He left Coleman in the game despite not only struggling offensively and taking awful shots, but also getting beat off the dribble consistently (final box score for him, 0 for 7 from the field and 0 for 4 from 3 )

b) Lets the young stud Lowe rot on the bench while Coleman stinks it up and the team struggles offensively.

c) Once again, brings Mark Williams in the game and destroys the team's momentum.

d) REFUSES to go to zone during most of the game even though his players are constantly being beat off the dribble (mostly notably Coleman who again, he refused to take out the game despite poor play -- even the commentators kept urging Temple to go zone!)

e) Finally goes to zone, it's effective, but then goes back to man to man once the team gets back in the game; the team then goes back to getting beat off the dribble and struggling defensively (the man is drunk on his stubbornness)

f) Lets SJU dribble the clock down in OT without ordering his players to pressure in an attempt to get a turnover (the commentators thought Temple should have just fouled on SJU's final possession to extend the game - that seemed like a good idea compared to Dunphy's idiotic idea of just being content with Temple -- at best -- just getting a defensive stop and getting the ball with 5 seconds left and having to take and miss a wild shot like OBI eventually did, losing the game)

The game against SJU was so winnable and much needed, and Dunphy lost it with horrible coaching and negligence. I feel bad for these kids. They have a coach that's clearly already enjoying his twilight years and he's running the program into the ground. I have never had this much contempt for a coach being the head of a team I support. Never. At this point, the team may need to crash and burn like 2013/2014 to drive this guy into early retirement. His presence is toxic towards the prestige of this basketball program (what's left of it).

Anyone know anything about them? I understand they have a good QB and RB.

This forum is rarely this quiet in the off-season, let alone 7 games into the season. It's a real bummer that the program has left us avid fans feeling so flat. It's even cloudy over NovaFan's house.....even he seems defeated in his recent posts.

This program needs a jolt!

As much as some people are knocking Josh Brown at the point, he has nearly a 5 to 1 assist to turnover ratio, considering we aren't setting the world on fire with FG % he has done a great job of protecting the rock.

Panthers > Owls. Hilarious.

TU.