New Feature Temple Owls...

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Originally Posted by clarke

Losing Golden would be a big blow. I am hoping that he is holding out hope for the Penn State job, and somehow Paterno gets to stay there another 3 years...then Golden might establish something that can be passed on to another coach and continued.

That being said, we need a QB. Charlton just has never developed at all and is holding us back. With that RB we have, just an average passing game could make this team worthy to play teams at the back end of the top 25. I don't know what we have waiting in the wings, but Charlton can't be allowed back on that field.

temple has the #1 recruiting class in the MAC for this year

Elijah Grant is 340 pounds of bad MFer and should start on the Oline day one. The kid Deon Miller he is bringing with him from hgih school is a 6'6 200 pound WR that should IMMEDIATELY create UGLY mismatches in the passing game. As if that was not enough two other kids from that high school (Fork Union) DE Aaron Hush 6'4 250 and DB Andrew Opoku 6'4 210 (you read that right 6'4 210 with enough talent to be listed DB not just safety) will join the Owls too. (you should probably go to a Fork Union game as 4 of thier seniors will be starters at Temple eventually)

The future is bright for Temple in my opinion.

6'3 190 pound QB Connor Reilly saind no thank you to Steve Spurrier at SC to come to Temple. He may not be physically ready to play college ball this year but soon buddy soon.

Last years steal from Virginia Crowyer might be ready

for now though I think mixing in Chester Stewart more is probably the answer

but there is something to be said for Charlton's size not too many 235 pound QBs

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Virgina just fired Al Grogh

Matter of time before Al Golden (former 5 year DCoord for the Cavs) is contacted for an interview

tick tick tick

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Originally Posted by clarke

Gee, thanks for the good news....first our defense doesn't show up in Ohio, now the possible loss of Golden. I think he stays, unless Penn State comes calling. He knows how close he is to making Temple a legitimate Division I team, and in doing that he probably deserves the Hall of Fame. With Bernard Pierce in that backfield, if he can keep him for the full 4 years, he has a legitimate weapon that may be among the toast of college ball in 3 years, and that is something to build on. Virginia isn't exactly a powerhouse. They, like Temple, are a basketball school. Its a lateral move. I am still betting he waits out Joe Pa, or eventually settles for a legitimate powerhouse, or one that has potential to be (like UCLA who came calling last season).

Maybe this is all hope by me, and I know he will be offered an interview. But I don't see Virginia as being a step up. They are a contender about as often as Connecticut or Rutgers, which isn't often, and I think putting Temple at those school's levels is a greater accomplishment, and I think that means something to Golden. Now, if Notre Dame or Florida or Pitt comes calling, then I think we could be in trouble, but only 1 of those 3 are looking, and I don't know if Notre Dame can get somebody with as short of a resume as Golden.

For a couple of days there was a "coach in waiting" mentality in which Weis stayed another season and the University hired a defensive minded head coach from another school to run the defense one (maybe two) years. Then Weis would move on and the new guy would take over completely. Under that scenario MY short list had Al Golden on it. The only advantage to keeping Weis was not losing Clausen and Golden Tate to the draft and it would have allowed ND to get a strong coach and ease them into the job.

I think Golden might leave for Virgina because of his former ties there, but it is the Penn State gig he wants. I think that is all a timing thing if Joe Pa drops today then Greg Schiano might be the right now pick. Where has if it drags a year it is more and mor elikely to be Golden.

Some rumors about Notre Dame vs Temple in the "how the hell did these guys end up here bowl" this year. If I was Temple I would not want Golden any where near Jack Swarbrick

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the flip side is a bunch of Al Grogh assistants just became available and the Temple coaching staff is on the short list of teams that could benifit from it.

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Originally Posted by clarke

i was looking at the bowl list yesterday, and I saw another casualty to the Temple Owl's loss last Friday. If they had won they would have been playing in January (instead, most likely December 26) in 1 of 2 bowls. Assuming that the January 6 Bowl is bigger than the January 2nd Bowl game (I really don't know, because the only ones that I EVER watch are Gator, because its a cool name and always have since I was a kid, Cotton, Sugar, Rose, Orange and Peach (because they were always January 1 bowls before this stupid BCS shit f----ed up everything. I mean seriously, a MAC team playing on January 6, the last bowl game before the championship bowl game? That is insane....lower conferences should be relegated to the week between Christmas and New Years Ever, and December 31, January 1 and 2 (if the 2nd is Saturday) for the real teams from real conferences)....anyway, assuming that the MAC runner up gets the January 2nd Bowl, that would be against the Big East....and it would have been sweet to see Temple play a Big East team and BEAT them....sort of a F.U. type of statement after they were tossed from that conference.

the international bowl is one of the "possibles" presented to the Notre Dame team yesterday when they were asked to vote on attending or not attending a bowl game.

Temple is a canidate for that game

Temple vs Notre Dame good for you sad for us

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"I just haven't had any contact with anybody [from Cincy]," Golden said according to the Philadelphia Daily News. "Right now I'm just going about my business. I don't know what the future brings, but I'm just trying to get ready to play UCLA."
Golden was then asked if he would talk to the Bearcats if they reached out to him.
"I don't know," Golden said. "I don't know."

The latest in the hottest Cinncy Bearcats next head coach rumors

and it has been confirmed by the Philly Daily News that UoC has contacted Temple for permission to talk to Al Golden about their open spot.

To Golden's credit it does sound like he will lead his boys in their bowl game before leaving.

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Originally Posted by clarke

If you were a Division 1 head coach, and you coveted the Penn State job (knowing that Paterno has to retire sometime in the next 2 or 3 seasons) which job would be most attractive to you to build your resume in the meantime? A)Taking the worlds worst Div 1 team and building them into something respectable, if not competitive, or B) Going to Cinci? I just don't see Cinci as something special. They have a great team this year, but I don't remember them being like that year in and year out. Like Temple, they are a basketball school. Only 12 years ago they had ended a 47 year drought of no bowl games. Even Temple had not ever met that. If it were me, I stay where I am, figuring the golden arrow is coming my way in the next 2 to 3 years (Penn State) and building my own winner (Temple) is more impressive than winning with somebody else's team (Cincinnatti) for 2 or 3 years. Plus job-hopping is not a way to build a resume, especially in a place like Penn State where loyalty has been the rule.

Cinncy is undefeated with 10 new to the defense starters, they are the odds on favorite to win the Big East again next year and thus go to their third straight BCS bowl. The last head coach of Cinncy spring boarded into maybe the highest profile job in college football. The bearcats should easy be the springboard needed for Penn State too.

I see the merits.

What I wonder is if Golden wants to put a Penn State clause in his contract will Cinncy be ok with that? Knowing that the Notre Dame clause in Kelly's just bit them in the arse

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in another great moment for Clarke today

Al Golden has officially removed himself from consideration for the Cinncy Bearcats gig

this after the Phills obtain the best pitcher in MLB

good chance Clarke is eating steak and getting laid tonight boys his day is just going too good

that effin bastach

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Originally Posted by eoeleven

in another great moment for Clarke today

Al Golden has officially removed himself from consideration for the Cinncy Bearcats gig

this after the Phills obtain the best pitcher in MLB

good chance Clarke is eating steak and getting laid tonight boys his day is just going too good

that effin bastach

Who are the Temple Owls, and why do they have a thread? Who's Golden? Who cares...................