T.J. Simmons just told me that he will be announcing his decision at 7 a.m. Wednesday morning at his school instead of the originally-planned time range of 3:30-4 p.m.

I see the Shabazz OLB/TE signed his LOI.

Watch that kid's video. He is a stud. I'd love him on defense.

What a great bunch of kids. Coach is building something here.

"Just got news so good it makes me want to put a Jet Pack on and take off! #OOU"

What is it?!?!?!

I see that Webb's NLI is in. That's good. Is his ability to sign one predicted on his being eligible to play this fall? Isn't that a condition of signing for the high school kids?

I'll keep updating this thread as the names come along.

So far, Cortrelle Simpson, Jake Robinson and Dawayne Young have sent in their National Letters of Intent.

JDC and KYLE:

I'm loving this piece by you guys. You made my night.

Time stamped tomorrow morning...weird.

Simmons to Temple!?

Khalif will be teaming up with Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson in Delaware for the 87ers if/when he returns from Israel. I'd pay to go watch him.

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Wyatt

Flanagan High School outside linebacker Adrienne Talan told OwlScoop.com this afternoon that he is, in fact, coming to Temple for an official visit. He'll arrive tomorrow.

Talan said he will choose between Temple, Pitt and Nebraska.

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Former Temple point guard Pepe Sanchez will be one of four Big 5 Hall of Fame inductees on Monday, April 13, at the Palestra. He's going in along with Stan Hochman (media), Ugonna Onyekwe (former Penn forward) and Bill Raftery in what's being described as a "special category."

Pretty cool and varied class and a great accomplishment for Sanchez, the best Temple point guard I ever saw with my own eyes.

Ironically enough, when I asked Fran Saturday about the last time he had a forward like Obi Enechionyia, he mentioned Onyekwe, who was a very good player at Penn.

I didn't see this posted on the site, and thought it was interesting.


"When Temple football landed a verbal commitment from four-star recruit Kareem Ali Jr. of Timber Creek High this July ...
(t)he addition also showed that Temple, located just over the boarder
in Philadelphia, remains a serious player for some of New Jersey's top
recruits."

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Is Rutgers sweating Temple?

John

Typically you hear teams over- recruiting and then stashing a kid or gray shirting them. If TU runs the gambit they are only at 21 their full allotment. Have you heard any whispers about any last minute surprises in case they don't get all 4
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FYI. Gotta love Twitter.

http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=12256253

If you use Twitter and you're not following us already, please do at @OwlScoop_com and @kylegauss. As things pick up tomorrow, we'll be posting a lot of stuff to Twitter first as it breaks, especially tomorrow morning.

We'll have stories and interviews tomorrow from Matt's press conference, interviews with assistants, hopefully something from Kareem Ali and virtually anyone and everyone we can talk to.

John do you know why Williams only played the last minute of the USL game?

Two votes for the Owls. SMU ranked #23 and Tulsa picked up eight votes.

With all the excitment around signing day I decided to focus my attention on making highlight videos for 2 of our great players. PJ Walker and Jalen Fitzpatrick, would have loved to make one for both Tyle Matakevich and Tevon Young both, but I could not find enough highlight plays for them and i dont have the game film. I wish Temple would start making highlight videos for our best players, other schools from the power 5 do this and it helps raise the players profile and also with recruiting.

PJ Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoOnJqVGvQ&list=UUwhJ-QvvCE571IBiD2Qo39A

Jalen Fitzpatrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABsbjE7dmrc&list=UUwhJ-QvvCE571IBiD2Qo39A&index=2

Next year we have 3 games in the Puerto Rico TipOff and 4 vs the Big 5. I hope we can get at least 4 of the other 6 non-conference games against teams in the top 50.
Something like:
Syracuse/Duke/Virginia
Georgetown/Butler/St.Johns
UCLA/Stanford/Cal
WesternKentucky/Murray State/Davidson
Gonzaga/Xavier/VCU/Wichita State

Temple got Bergen Catholic wide receiver Corey Gaarn to commit this weekend as a walk-on, which could be an under-the-radar pickup for the Owls. He reminds a lot of people of former Temple wideout Ryan Alderman - a slot receiver who can find seams in the field.

His teammate, offensive guard Joe Woerner, will also be coming to Temple as a walk-on.

Corey Gaarn

I just mentioned him in another thread, but it looks like Temple will in fact be getting a visit this weekend from Canadian defensive end Mathieu Betts, who plays at Vieux High School in Montreal.

Take a look at his film. The kid can play. Has great hands, really gets off blocks well.

I talked to Brian Neubert from the Purdue Rivals site earlier this week. They do a nice job over there and are very thorough. Brian told me that at the time it looked like Betts might commit to Purdue, but he told me to keep an eye on Wednesday and that if Betts got past Wednesday without committing, he could be moving along to another visit, and that's what has happened.

A source I spoke with this morning confirmed that Betts will be visiting this weekend.

Betts

2015 commit Delvon Randall is ranked 11th in Rivals "Prep top 25" for the class of 2015. Nice job Delvon !!

http://sports.yahoo.com/…/f…/recruiting/rankings/rank-3562/0

John/Kyle...Has Shaun Bradley a 6-2, 200 RB with 4.4 40 speed out of Rancocas Valley HS (NJ) committed to the Owls? Owls 24/7 is reporting that he has.

The lead recruiter for Marshall with T.J. Simmons, the RB the Owls covet, is former Temple DL coach Sean Cronin, who also is Chuck Heater's son-in-law.

Anyone know anything on him? 3 star DL who decommited from Cuse this weekend and visiting Temple right now. Sounds like Minnesota and TU front runners offering.

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