All,

I have a cold that, A, won't quit after seven days and B, has exacerbated all of my chronic illnesses. I do not want to transmit this to anyone. Hence, I have two tickets in section 112, across from our bench. There is no charge for these tickets.

Please direct message me or reach out to JDC for my info.

Thanks and Be Safe

I may be crazy, but I took the Owls +13 on DK.

Thoughts?

Temple hosted junior college tight end Owen Olsen for an official visit this weekend.

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The 6-foot-4, 235-pound Olsen has offers from schools like East Carolina, Arkansas State, Liberty, Marshall and Troy.

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Olsen caught nine passes for 110 yards this season for Tyler JC. Olsen originally signed with Navy before withdrawing and going to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M for the 2021 season. He caught 12 passes for 127 yards there and signed with Western Michigan last recruiting cycle but ultimately came back for another JUCO year at Tyler.

Prediction on today's game against USF. TU's defense should limit their offense unless TOs give them a short field. Our offense will do just enough. 13-10, Owls.

Colorado State transfer Devin Phillips is currently visiting Temple, OwlScoop.com has learned.

Phillips is a grad transfer that racked up 101 tackles, 13.0 TFL and 7.5 sacks during his time at CSU, which included 39 starts. Since entering the portal, the 6-foot-2, 290-pound Phillips has claimed offers from Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Tulane and Kansas. The Nebraska offer came from the old staff, not Rhule.

Phillips is a very good run defender, as Pro Football Focus had him ranked as the #3 best run-defending DT in the MWC in 2021 and the second best DT in 2020.

The obvious connection here is Temple defensive line coach Antoine Smith, who was Phillips’ coach at CSU for two seasons.

We had to switch around our programming schedule this week, and we'll be recording The Scoop tomorrow.

If you have mailbag questions for us, please send them in here by 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. We'll talk about the La Salle win, preview VCU and talk about anything else you want to put on the agenda.

Thank you as always for listening!

As I mentioned on the basketball board, we had to switch around our programming schedule this week, and we'll be recording The Scoop tomorrow.

If you have mailbag questions for us, please send them in here by 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. We'll talk about the season finale, E.J. Warner, the current roster, where thins are headed from here and anything else you want to put on the agenda.

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Will there be a final interview scheduled to wrap up the season and look ahead? If not scheduled by athletics, will OwlScoop reach out directly to coach?

He has one of the best starts in Temple history and totally takes a 360 and maybe some of the worst ever for a good player. Any answers. ?

Besides watching Temple be overall awful in this game, the camera operators must be the jv audiovisual club from St. Mary’s school for the blind. The god awful jitteriness, poor movement and shaking is seizure inducing, makes me feel like on a bad ride at Universal…. Excuse me while I puke..🤢

Headline alert in NY Post

Ex NFL QB's son arrested on child pornography charges. Turns out to be Jon Kitna's son

Looking back at last years schedule we lost 9 (NINE!) games by 20 or more points. Usually the first year out with a new coach you’d expect things to be equally as bad. Although I would have liked more wins, this teams fought harder than any Rod Carey team. Most of us scoffed at the thought of EJ Warner playing valuable minutes, and he’s now the all-time season single completion leader; in just 10.5 games. Onward and upward!

One of the other Owls ... FAU.

Another year, another version of the OwlScoop football scholarship board. Notes below.

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11/28 - I've removed the nine Temple scholarship players that are out of eligibility after Saturday's loss to East Carolina, as well as the four players that technically still had eligibility but were honored at the Senior banquet. Those players were Kadas Reams, Daesean Winston, Evan Boozer and Ronald Gaines. If they decide to come back in the spring, which I think is unlikely, I'll re-add them. I also removed Onasis Neely, as he tweeted on Sunday that he intends to enter the transfer portal. As a reminder, FBS players can not technically enter the portal until 12/5 unless they're grad transfers but you'll see a fair number of them across the nation publish that they intend to enter the portal prior to that date.

I'm expecting a number of Temple entries into the portal in the next few weeks. The roster turnover from the Rod Carey era to the Stan Drayton era is definitely still happening. In addition to that, history shows us that there's usually a freshman or two that leaves after their first semester.

12/5 - The portal officially opened today so we'll start to see some names trickle in over the next few days. Removed Dyshier Clary after he entered the portal.

12/7 - Removed Malik Cooper and Darian Varner from the table after they entered the portal.

12/8 - Removed Jaden Coffen, who entered the portal.

12/21 - Removed Keshaun Jones and Rory Bell as neither is listed on roster anymore. Added early signing day signees and transfers.

1/7 - Added Diwun Black, who committed to Temple.

1/9 - Removed Mariano Valenti, who entered the portal.

1/15 - Added Purdue transfer kicker Chris Van Eekeren.

1/16 - Removed Kobe Wilson, who entered the portal.

1/17 - Removed Trey Blair, Nate Wyatt, Balansama Kamara, Jacoby Sharpe and Jalen Satchell after they announced their portal entry. Removed Coleman Jeffcoat, Aaron Jones, Darrien Lewis and Peace Addo after they were removed from Temple's official roster.

1/27 - Added Landon Morris as a transfer tight end.

2/8 - Removed Sam Davis after he entered the portal as a grad transfer.

4/10 - Removed Reggie Jones after he entered the portal.

4/16 - Second transfer portal window of the offseason opened yesterday. Removed Jimto Obidegwu after he entered the portal.

This team absolutely stinks.

You have momentum throwing the ball and you run it two straight plays???

DEFENSE!!!

Yes that juggernaut , Villanova . Now that we all look back we knew they weren’t that good . We’ve have problems and so does the Big V

Oh so it seems. They just simply doubled Reynolds admitting they couldn’t guard him one on one. You beat this by rotational passing until you find the open man . They didn’t and lost . Your center that dominated the night before gets one shot , plays 18 minutes and you can’t make them pay for the double team. Bad bad bad coaching .

Hot take, I think Jourdain is being criminally under used. I'll admit that his offense is a mess right now, but he has been giving us great defensive effort in the paint and on the permitter. Meanwhile, White is averaging an insane 4.2 fouls in just 20 minutes per game.

Seriously, how is White still starting over him? In 20 mins ppg, White is giving us 4.2 PFs, 1.2 points, 4.2 rebs, 2 TOs, 13% on FGs, and 60% at the line. Jourdain in 16 min ppg, is giving us 1.6 PFs, 3.4 points, 2.6 rebs, 1 TO, 38.5% on FGs, and 77.8% at the line. (note: blocks and steals are basically the same). Also don't tell me they play different positions, White is 6-7/205 LBs whereas Jourdain is 6-8/205 LBs.

I'd love to see us start Dunn/Battle/Hicks/Jourdain/Reynolds. I love Miller but there is no way you can justify starting him over Battle at this point. Maybe go smaller and put Miller in over Hicks. I know that is blasphemy given Hicks' potential but too often Hicks just looks like a streaky shooter who is lost on defense.

have to be embarrassed to have lost to this team.