IT finally happened yesterday, no need to mention what 'IT' was.

7PM tonight, it'll be 24 hours ago, yesterday's news.

You have my permission to brag to one person at work on Tuesday morning, but after that, that's it.

I know it sucks, waiting your entire life to see IT happen and only getting ONE DAY to enjoy IT, but that's the situation, deal with it.

Their are bigger events on the horizon for your Temple Owls this season, and a loss to Cincinnati on Saturday night will hurt the chances for those bigger events to take place.

Yesterday was huge, no doubt, but it was yesterday and these Owls are forward thinkers and so should us fans be as well.

Saw a lot of the players at the Penn State game. Devin Coleman, Devontae, DeCosey, Dingle with a cast on his right hand and thumb (that can't be good), Jaylen Bond, Mark Williams, Josh Brown, Obi, a couple of others.

Big Ernest looks like his leg is stiff, but hopefully, he'll be OK. He's a big kid. The Argentinian kid was there, too.
Even saw Dionte Christmas, who is a wonderful young man. I asked him how he was doing and he stopped to talk to me. Nice kid. Hope he can crack an NBA lineup. If not, he'll make plenty of money overseas again.

Adonis Jennings,one of many weapons on offense looks ready to take his place as one of the AAC's better receivers.
If you are a Pitt fan watching that game yesterday you have to be sick that he's no longer there.

My brother and I will be making the 10 1/2 hour trip from NY to Cinci on Friday. We plan on playing 18 on Saturday morning. Looking to make some tee times. Anybody interested ?

if the universe works the way I hope it does, NJ Schmitty is smiling broadly from whatever a conversion line looks like in heaven.

Here's to all the great owls fans who stuck through dark days and didn't get to see this one in person.

Hurrah!

anyone know where I can get the proof to that photo/who actually took it and has it?

For the American Conference:


http://theamerican.org/news/2015/9/7/FB_0907153040.aspx

Yes, the Football Team put a Beat Down of the nits. But on Friday, the men's soccer beat #25 Penn State 2-0!!!

Awesome!!

GO OWLS!!!

Even though I'm "on to Cincinnati" - I'm curious - when do we get to play the Nits again? Is there anything scheduled?

Anyone know if they will be selling these shirts at the games?

JDC - Have you heard anything about PJ's shoulder? I couldn't help but venture over to paprep's blog, and someone in the comments mentioned PJ's shoulder is dislocated "from inside sources". Of course I'm taking blog comments with a grain of salt - but have you heard anything? Hope he's alright.

"But the real showstopper of Week 1, with little argument, was Temple’s 27-10 victory over Penn State"

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2...cla-alabama-auburn-texas-notre-dame-byu-more/

it truly was a great win against an instate opponent who always made us feel like we were the kids that were sitting at the card table and not at the dining room table . Move over because we have a seat now at the big table .

With that means Temple needs to show up for home games when it isn't Penn State or Notre Dame . We need to be there for Tulane and Memphis and all games . It is your investment in our program and it is our responsibility to do so . I don't want to hear I can't make it to a 12 noon game or it was 45 degrees or whatever . The university has lived up to its commitment to us to provide us with a legitimate competitive football team that will only get better . We need to get better as well . No excuses anymore ....... Invest your time and $$$$ in your program .

As we pass out kudos for the game don't forget the improvement in the kicking game. Extra points look automatic. Field goals are again an option. Punts are deep with good hang time. And the strategy on kick offs effectively limited run back opportunities.

Here is the schedule leading up to our Halloween battle with the Irish.

at Cincinnati
at UMass
Bye
at Charlotte
Tulane
UCF
at ECU

i put "most" because any given Saturday anything can happen...
But seriously I think I follow our Owls pretty well but not so much other college teams. Besides this huge game vs Cincy and ND, who is most concerning?

I'm worried about ECU the week prior to ND.

My apologies if this is a repeat or dumb post.

Folks, I'm not sure how to post this exactly, but via ESPN:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/218

They're saying Nate D's sack of Hackenberg on the two man rush was the worst play of the weekend?!?!?!

Look, I think Penn State Sucks as much as any rational human being can, but why isn't this the BEST play of the weekend? It's not like a bad snap on a punt where the punter keeps fumbling and kicking the ball back towards his own endzone. THAT would be a terrible play. This was our guys beating those frauds like a drum.

Was good to see Rick Brunson at the game hanging out with Coach Trice!

This senior citizen has waited sooooooo loooong for this 27-10 win over PSU. Think I'll have a second Manhattan. Go Owls! Sincerest congratulations. Bowl bound.

Phil Snow called an incredible game. 4-3, 3-4, Safety Blitz, Delayed Blitz, Ioannidis lining up outside, Taylor inside, stunting on every play. The play where we gave up the long touchdown run, Julian Taylor was injured and unable to cut across the Center to fill the gap. Mind bogglingly complex.

Although Coach Rhule correctly pointed out that the ten sacks were misleading, since a few came in the closing minutes, Snow created constant pressure forcing several errant throws.

Also interesting were the rotations. Obviously, the DL was heavily rotated, but the starting back seven seemed to be out there 90% of the time (Will Hayes, of course was out for a little while with an injury on that kick off).

On the OL, RT Leon Johnson really caught my eye – he did a great job sealing off the edge, firing out to the second level when his double team was secured and played through the end of the whistle. The Sack Walker took where he fumbled was completely the fault of Kip Patton, who, all things considered, had a pretty good game. Post injury he was getting driven back, before being replaced by Lofton at the very end, so it’ll be interesting to see if he bounces back. Johnson is still susceptible to an outside speed rush, but with the TE sets we have, that shouldn’t be too common.

How many times did you hear Anthony Zettle’s name called? Kyle Friend not only took his lunch money, but stole his girlfriend at half time.

P.J. Walker was as impressive as could be. Not only did he show fantastic speed, beautiful touch, and patience, but what was most important was that he staved off any frustration during the first 27 plus minutes of the game, and there were a lot of disturbing omens. Kid was totally unrattled.

Ventell Bryant had some real moments but after the alligator arm incident on third down, I didn’t see him on the regular offense unit (he was on the punt return unit)

Alex Starzyk had a tremendous game, really changing the field position. Sharif Finch on several occasions came within a hair of blocking a kick. Given this, I’d really like to see more pressure on the punter and less on the return.

Of the youngsters, Delvon Randall got some time as did Freddy Booth-Lloyd and Michael Dogbe. Un-seen was Karim Ali, which surprised me for one.

For the last couple of years I have been recording televised Temple football games onto DVD.

About an hour ago I sat down to record yesterday's game from my DVR to DVD and I kept getting a 'RECORDING ERROR This program is not allowed to be recorded' message.

I did some research and have found that a lot of channels copy protect their content and ESPN is one of them, WHAT THE F$&K!

I recently switched to Verizon from Comcast I didn't have this problem before, not happy.

Espn Espn2 FoxSports1 CBSSports Network are the channels that I have noticed I can't record from, never thought I'd wish all the Owl games were on Espnnews and ESPNU before.

Tough but fun choice.

http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/08/penn_state_has_lived_off_great.html

From one of my favorite college football writers.

Thought they looked great on TV. Still the classic cherry, new pants and sleeves look awesome. Broken Stripe on the helmet is probably my least favorite of the modifications, but nonetheless the additional "][" on the sleeves looks awesome and really sells our brand