What if we sold the University to Amazon? Amazon just purchased One Medical in California for $4b. One Medical had about $623m in annual revenues so it's like a 6.5 ratio. Temple as an entire system brought in $2.4b in revenue last year. That would put our valuation in the $13b - $20b range. That's pocket change for Amazon. Amazon would get an east coast foot print for their expanding medical services division and a medical school where they could train and recruit their own talent. And a successful business and law school. And the infrastructure to hit the ground running with a worlds best of class computer engineering program. Amazon has 1.6m employees as of the end of 2021. It's a lot cheaper to ask kids to pay you $20k or $35k a year to learn from you and then take your jobs than it is to pay thousands of HR and recruiter personnel 6 figures each to chase after people all over the world. If you go to work for Amazon after you graduate, your tuition is reimbursed.

Does anyone here think that Villanova basketball would compete against us in a world of NIL if we had Amazon's financial backing? Villanova would have to open up an Etsy shop. And think of the multimedia possibilities!

It's only a matter of time before something like this happens. If not us, it'll be someone else. Schools like Alabama and Georgia and Texas and Villanova are bullies. Mediocre fish in a small pond who make and break all the rules on the elementary school playground but don't actually flex any true creative muscle because they don't see the world past the fence around the schoolyard.

Also it's July. What else is there to talk about right now?

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We're taking mailbag questions for this week's episode of The Scoop as we enter our eighth season with the podcast. We've been having some fun with our all-time Temple Hoops draft and will talk about that more on the pod this week with Kyle's team and my team squaring off in the finals.

If you want to send us some mailbag questions pertaining to our draft, the team or anything at all, drop them in here by 4 p.m. tomorrow and we'll get to as many as we can on the podcast.

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Hi, everyone!

We're taking mailbag questions for this week's episode of The Scoop as we enter our eighth season with the podcast.


We'll recap some of the takeaways from last week's media day and have some audio for you from Stan Drayton and Adam Klein, and we'll continue to break down the roster, look at position battles and tell you what's ahead with media availability, recruiting and our coverage.

If you want to send us some mailbag questions, please drop them in here by 4 p.m. tomorrow and we'll get to as many as we can on the podcast.

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Total sea change from the previous regime. Stan the Man.

Adam DiMichele and I just recorded our newest episode of the BLEAV In Temple Football podcast to kick off our second season.

If you haven't already, you can click on the link here to subscribe and listen.

I hope you're all doing well and appreciate the support!

We've had a lot of fun and great feedback and engagement so far from fans and readers with our All-Time Temple Hoops fantasy draft, and I wanted to post this Twitter thread from former Temple assistant and current SEC Associate Commissioner Dan Leibovitz for those of you who are not on social media.

We each drafted an assistant coach as part of our roster, and Varun Kumar selected Dan, who was kind enough to break down Varun's entire roster today in a Twitter thread.

You can click on the link here to read Dan's entire thread and roster breakdown. Lots of great anecdotes and memories here.

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The new episode of The Scoop with Jimmy Fenerty is out. Stay tuned for the full interview.

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13 minutes - 10 points (5-6) and 7 rebounds and his typical defense. I think he's going to get a camp invite somewhere.

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Football season is upon us again, Temple's and The American's media days are tomorrow, and we'll be talking plenty of football on this week's episode of The Scoop. If you have mailbag questions for us, please drop them in here by 4 p.m. and we'll get to as many as we can on the podcast.

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We'll be talking to Temple assistant coach Jimmy Fenerty today. Part of that interview will air on The Scoop, and the full interview will be available to all of you as subscribers.

If you have a mailbag question for Jimmy, please post them here by 4 p.m. today and we'll try to get as many questions in as we can.

We'll get a good scan of the roster from him and plenty of insight into how the team is looking this summer through workouts.

As always, thank you for listening, and if you haven't done so already, please subscribe to The Scoop and drop us a rating and review.

In case you missed it out on the front page, I talked to Miguel Bocachica, the head coach at West Catholic High School, about class of 2023 wing forward Zion Stanford, who picked up a Temple offer last week on an unofficial visit.


I'm hoping to talk to Stanford at some point today, so stay tune for more coverage of his offer and recruitment.

Skip Wilson passed away this morning at 92. Skip was an absolute legend and I'm sure more than a few stories and beers will be lifted in his honor today.

In addition to Adam Klein, I also talked last night to nose tackle Xach Gill at the Temple Takeover event prior to the Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park.

Gill said players "enjoy coming into the building" under new head coach Stan Drayton.

You can read the full interview here.

I talked to Adam Klein last night at the Temple Takeover prior to the Phillies game about what position he'll play this season, why it's such a big deal that offensive line coach Chris Wiesehan has returned, and which players have caught his eye as preseason camp approaches.

You can read the full interview here.

With Temple set to kick off preseason camp next Thursday, here's a look at what's ahead in terms of what you can expect from our football coverage and media availability.

In addition to Stan Drayton, Adam Klein and Xach Gill taking part in The American Athletic Conference virtual media day this coming Thursday at approximately 3 p.m., the team will host its in-person media day on Thursday prior to their session with the conference.

That in-person session will include Drayton, Gill, Klein, David Martin-Robinson, Jordan Magee and Darian Varner.

We'll have coverage of both media day sessions.

And here's the tentative media availability schedule for preseason camp:

Friday, Aug. 5 - Stan Drayton, Danny Langsdorf, D.J. Eliot and Adam Scheier

Monday, August 8 - Drayton, Jafar Williams and Jules Montinar

Friday, August 12 - Drayton, Chris Wiesehan and Antoine Smith

Monday, August 15 - Drayton and select players

Monday, August 22 - Stan Drayton's first weekly Monday noon press conference

Friday, August 26 - Drayton, select players

Monday, August 29 - Drayton noon press conference

The Owls of course then open their season four days later on the road at Duke at 7:30 p.m.

Thank you all for your patience over the last few weeks. I've had to direct a lot of attention to my family with my father's illness and eventual passing. I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and appreciate your support of the site. It means a lot.

Temple is working to try to get Jones on campus this fall. Overall update on Rivals:

I am very interested in the politics that takes place with the new arena being talked about at the Market East site at 10th and Market. Temple tried to build a stadium in an Urban setting and it was turned away .

Thanks for posting that John! I'm pleased at how well we were able to build out the skill positions through the portal and getting Quincy Patterson could be huge. I don't love Mathis but if he beats out Patterson for the job, at least we know he earned it. Really tough to go from worst to first in one year though. I'm concerned about the OL. Wiesehan has his work cut out for him. Hopefully we can put enough together for a .500 season and build on that into 2023.

Our new episode of The Scoop is out and up on the front page in case you missed it.

I talked to Khalif Wyatt this week, and you can hear part of that interview on the podcast. All of you as subscribers will get to hear more of the interview later this weekend.

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We're taking mailbag questions until 4 p.m. today for this week's episode of The Scoop. We'll have audio from Temple commit Cole Skinner, talk more about the roster and recruiting and anything else you'd like to put on the agenda.

And if you haven't subscribed to The Scoop already, you can find us on Apple Podcasts or any of the major platforms.

We're taking mailbag questions until 4 p.m. today for this week's episode of The Scoop. So if you have anything for us, drop your questions in here and we'll answer them on the podcast.

We'll have audio from West Catholic head coach Miguel Bocachica, who talked to us recently about his best player, Zion Stanford, and his Temple offer.

As always, thanks so much for listening and please subscribe if you haven't already!

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Just wanted to share here some heartfelt condolences to John DiCarlo and his family for the loss of John’s father. Whether you know John personally or not, follow him outside of this forum via other social platforms or not, John is the lifeblood and leader of this site. He’s the common bond who literally unites everyone here, whether you are a current or former player, an administrator, Owlscoop staff member/alum, troll, or diehard Temple whacko like me. Sometimes a few of us don’t see eye to eye on certain things, but it’s the great content and mostly civil discussion that makes this place my home for Temple football and basketball. And we have John and his team to thank for that, so if he’s hurting, he should know that we are all thinking of him and his family during such a difficult time. Rest In Peace, Mr. DiCarlo, and John, all the best to you and your family.