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I have 4 extra tickets for Saturday’s game if anyone wants them. With the tickets being digital, it appears I can transfer them through the app.

Apparently questionable for Saturday.

@Dante Collinelli tweeted out these updates from Rod Carey's Monday press conference. For those of you not on Twitter, you can just click on the link here and follow the thread.

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That bad or much worse than I contemplated huh? Wow

Starting this now just to see if anyone else has as bad of a feeling about this game as I do.

Saw a article on line the author feels these school are the best fit for the conference. In no particular order. Boise st. Colorado st. Army. Air Force North Texas. Charlotte. Costal carolina. Arkansas st. Old dominion. Umb. He feels uab would give the aac a school in the deep South.

Thanks for getting that posted on what should be your day off…

A few thoughts: (1) nervousness usually means unprepared (2) I hate “lower-body injuries - week to week” responses. That’s code for high ankle sprain; 4-6 weeks (3) Defense was on the field too much and defended some short fields…really? I hadn’t noticed (4) special teams are just that - special.

I’m nervous about Akron now and the line is Temple -6.5….

UCF ” The gates opened up and we were there . Sometimes there is luck but you need to be ready and we were “

Temple wasn’t !!!!

OK, so I need something to be excited about related to Temple athletics. How do we do this season? If you vote tourney, please state “why” you feel that way in the comments.

Especially now with Lynch. Too bad our coaching staff is utterly clueless.

I think when this is all said and done the sec. B10. Acc. P12 ( don't know about the b12) will be move to a higher tier by the (ncaa). They will have their own playoff. The (g5 or g4) will have their playoff like the fcs.

Commissionier Keith gill told the athletic this morning they are looking to go to 12 teams.

Sometimes the hardest things for businesses to do is consider harvesting or divesting assets that no longer have a useful life. Usually managers are faced with choices, none of them favorable…
1. Continue to throw good money after bad, understanding market share will continue to erode; aka kicking the can down the road
2. Try to reinvent yourself… rebrand, vertically integrate, reduce head count… these typically always fail as you just can’t keep pace with existing or emerging competitors
3. Acquire new assets to grow yourself out of the issue… brings in new talent or sales, but the culture that got you into the mess will probably kill the new organization
4. The hardest one to do…. STOP. That’s right; understand your place in the world; understand you made poor decisions in the past, and decide to move on and that precious resources are best used elsewhere and can perhaps lead to new innovations

Of course, these problems are not just exclusive to business. Universities, and their athletic departments face them too. I give credit to UConn for making a bold decision. It takes a lot of courage. I’m sure Temple leadership is wrangling with these now too; question is…Which path do we choose? If we ask ourselves the painful questions, are options 1-3 really ever achievable? I’m starting to think option 4 is most viable. So explain to me why I’m wrong.

Serious question with two very plausible scenarios. For me, asking this question is a therapeutic exercise where I set myself up to be happy regardless of outcome Saturday.

If you’re Temple, you have to strongly consider dumping football.
Unless somehow you can get into the ACC, the conference and the program are cooked.

I can see Memphis trying to go ACC.

In case you missed it out on the front page, this week's episode of The Scoop, our weekly OwlScoop podcast, is out.


We dissected the Rutgers loss, previewed this Saturday's matchup at Akron, provided some injury updates and answered a full mailbag.

Everyone wants to know.

Rod has 3 years left on his contract after this year. Rod's negotiated buyout is 70% of the remaining money on his deal, at $2mil per year. If he was bought out after this year, the university would owe him $4.2 million.

@Cayden Steele talked to Archbishop Wood High School cornerback Jaleel Davis-Shabazz about his Temple offer, his first from a Division I program.

Game thread. Beat RU

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It may take a decade to overcome the hiring of this coaching staff. After having the program moving 'Forward' in recent years, here we go again.
We've returned to the old days, not the good ole days either.
Football season is just a sign that basketball isn't far off ... just like it used to be.
Single Digit uniforms are "given out" instead of "Earned".
Fundamentals are lacking. Blocking and Tackling aren't being taught.
An overall 'Wuss' mentality is projected.
Coaching staff can't make decisions and live with them. For instance, they don't know who the backup QB is ... everybody is 'above the line'.
Just sayin .....

Article:

How Temple Should Stand as a Warning to the Rest of the AAC

Temple is overpaying on Rod Carey. As a result, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place that should act as a warning to the rest of the AAC.

www.underdogdynasty.com

Wow. Just came across this one on Twitter… written last March.
Whomever thought stability was better than growth ought to be fired (oh wait… he left for BC and Englert retired! Great!). I have worked in many organizations where we had young up and comers who left after a few years, and we wore that as a badge of honor that we were an excellent exporter of talent, which meant we were doing something right.