Alani Moore - Class of 2016 point guard and Temple's top point guard target.

Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree - Class of 2017 forward from Neumann-Goretti High School

Daron Russell - Class of 2017 point guard from Imhotep Charter, has Temple, VCU, La Salle offers.

Quinton Rose - Class of 2016 Temple commit, was on his official visit.

Aaron Thompson - Class of 2017 3-star point guard from Paul VI High School in Fairfax, Va.

Najja Hunter - Class of 2017 shooting guard from Westtown

COMING OFF THE HUGE WIN VS. PENN STATE!!!

Join fellow Temple alumni at Philly-themed Shorty's Flatiron in NYC at 7pm on Saturday, 9/12, as the Owls take on AAC favorites Cincinnati on ESPNews; a game that could well decide who plays in the first ever American Conference Championship Game.

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!

***The Temple University Alumni Club of Metropolitan New York is also proud to offer one FREE DRINK to each alum in attendance!***

When you arrive at Shorty's Flatiron, please be sure to mention that you're with the Temple University Alumni Association to receive your drink ticket and access to all specials!

Shorty's Flatiron is located at 66 Madison Ave. (between 27th and 28th St.). Check out their website: http://www.shortysnyc.com/madison.php

Facebook Event Page: Temple Football vs. Cincinnati NYC Game Watch at Shorty's Flatiron

Here is an article from Philly.com called 'The Grown-up Philadelphian's Back-to-School Guide"

What I really love here is two things. One, that this is a general article about things to do in Philadelphia and it specifically calls out our sports teams (both of them). The second thing is they also call out our free library.

The real impact is Temple Football is starting to make its way into non-sports related articles. It shows that it is becoming a "cool" or "trendy" thing to jump onto in the city. This is very much progress for the school's athletic programs.

Just watched the behind the scenes of PSU game video on Owlsports.com which is great.
The guys are chanting something before they break huddle of entire team I cannot make out.
Does anyone know what the chant is and educate me. Thanks. Go Owls !

So, I’ve been looking for air fare and hotels for the next few games.

Cincinnati: Lowest fare is Delta $238, but it gets back to PHI at 10:16 Sunday night, total time with a layover 6 hours 8 mins. A more reasonable time expenditure is $289 for 5 hours.

Reasonable hotel is about $150.

Boston: Air fare is pretty cheap. You’ll have to wake up in the middle of the night, flight leaves at 7:30, but U.S. Air is $207.

Hotels in Boston are fairly spendy, $350 a night, but Foxboro area, $175 a night should get you a spot with reasonable levels of bed bug infestation.

Charlotte: This is the bargain trip, right here, folks! Now, Google Flight has a flight that’ll get you in at Midnight, and back at a reasonable time at $162. I got $77 on Frontier a few weeks ago, but they add on everything, like checking in is a charge and don’t you dare bring baggage bigger than a shoe box.
If anyone has experience with Frontier, I'd love to hear any advice.

Hotels are reasonable, $125 should get ‘er done.


I’ve booked U Mass and Charlotte. I’m kind of on the fence for Cincy.
Anyone else going?

The game pulled a 6.1 rating and a 16 share in Philly.

Not to take anything away from our great win, BUT USA TODAY observes that Coach Ruhl has become a hot property in the coaching ranks. What do we know about his contract?

This weeks issue of SI has a two page picture spread of Jahad Thomas soaring
on one of his runs and a smaller insert of Coach Rhule in the "They Said it" section
It won't help us if we lose next week....

The SI jinx is only on the cover....

Go Owls..................Handle the Bearcats!!!!

BRITANNIA PUB...3rd Street Promenade Santa Monica. First 200 drink and food sponsored by LA ALUMNI Chapter. See you all there. GO OWLS!!!

I usually like Mike Sielski's columns but you can decide yourself on this one............

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports...in_no_big_deal_to_ex-Owls_felled_by_cuts.html

Anyone have any good ones they can share? Especially of the Temple side? Looking to update the ol' Facebook cover photo.

My seats are in Section 118 so I'm right in the thick of it... there were barely any PSU fans sitting near us.

I wish I would have thought of this immediately after the game (instead of now, when my focus should be on Cincinnati), but this particular scene has been replayed so often as to become viral:

Get a still shot of Nate D. Smith at the moment he's dragging down Hackenberg (after having shaken the whole PSU offensive line like Dr. J going one-on-five vs. the Lakers).

Put this caption under that image: DOMINATE THE STATE (you can use different lettering or another color to highlght the "Nate" part).

I made this yesterday and put it as my co-resident's desktop (PSU grad)... "Christian Hackenberg highlight desktop" I call it

Are their official plans for a watch party throughout the Delaware Valley?

I'm in Montco specifically and I know that Whelihan's in Blue Bell is often a site.
The cigar store to which I belong is a nice place to watch ( and BYOB). It's in KOP.

Nice story and chart by Kyle Gauss on OWLSCOOP front page about the stud recruits who were at the PSU game Saturday.

If we could get a few guys to decommit and come to North Broad Street, that would be nice.

Taurean Thompson is on campus today. In case you don't know about him, the 4-star forward is ranked by Rivals at 85th overall in the 2016 class. He missed a good portion of the July live period with a cracked rib and will be playing his senior season at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire.

At 6-9, 220, he can post up or step out to shoot it.

This past week we lost the toss, so PSU choose to kick off and play defense. The question is what should we do if we WIN the coin toss this week at Cincy?

Is it better to kick and allow our defense to hold them early?

Or do we receive and get our play makers on the field right away?

I think we should kickoff and play defense, but the Bearcats are a very talented offensive team.

Thoughts?

GO OWLS!!!

In the latest polls, Temple garnered 8 votes in the AP and 3 in the coaches'. Cincinnati got 7 in the AP and none in the coaches, and Memphis got none in the AP and 2 in the coaches'.
A convincing win this week and maybe a jump to the top 25?

Eric Lofton will start at Right Tackle in place of Leon Johnson (based on Kyle's tweet of what Rhule told reporters today).

Raheem Brock at 1250
Matt Rhule at 3 or 315

I was very glad to see that people commented on the absence of Ed Edwards
AKA NJ Schmitty at the game Saturday. He truly was a one in a lifetime fan whose
wit is missed,
I talked to his brother this morning and he informed me that their crew will be bringing the
conversion van, the red Temple "T" and all of his group to the UCF game, October 17.
He asked all to stop by and say hello. There is a cancer program slated for that weekend
and they would participate.

Barry, Schmitty's brother and I also agreed that the POSITIVE coverage for the Penn
State win was far less than earned or deserved. I read papers from Lancaster, Harrisburg,
State College, Newark, NJ, Scranton,and they were quick to downplay Temple's win.
That's typical for Temple coverage but better than nothing at all which has happened
in the past.

Go Owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beat Cincy

Sedee Keita

"Penn State safety Jordan Lucas said he and the team literally buried the Temple tape on the practice field Sunday -- with a shovel. Some players stomped on it afterward. Lucas said that helped give PSU some "positive energy" back"

Matt Rhule said today that Eric Lofton will likely start at right tackle in place of Leon Johnson, who got hurt Saturday.

Here's our story from today's press conference:

https://temple.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1800489

On another note, I asked about T.J. Simmons and his place in the backfield. Rhule said Simmons is healthy and practicing again, but it sounds like Jahad Thomas, Ryquell Armstead and Jager Gardner are all ahead of the former 4-star recruit at this point.

"He'll be ready to go at some point," Rhule said of Simmons, "but he's not ready yet."