I hate to think that if Ash was here full time from December 6th, we would have been able to close out recruits like Dioubate who were on the fence with RU>
Karami Dioubate?
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He wouldn't have accepted the job without finishing at OSU.
Someday, he will do the same for RU.
Someday, he will do the same for RU.
First time this poster has gone to any other site to post. And it's not to gloat.
My longstanding view on Owlscoop is Temple and Rutgers ought to play every year. I believe this is the most promising natural born rivalry for both universities. Our schools have several similarities in terms of size, scope and mission, draw students and athletes from some of the same areas, represent adjoining and often rival states, are very close geographically, and, in the sports sense of course, we dislike each other. This game would in short order, if not at the outset, sell out every year.
We do want filled stadiums, lotsa media coverage, and all kinds of economic activity from the game?
I even dream of some kind of annual promotional event during game week at Washington's Crossing, say, with the "invader" crossing the Delaware. I am sure marketing folks can be more imaginative than this.
Need it be said rivalries are the staff of football life? As a Gator, I "hate" Florida State and Georgia, and they, us. Those two games occupy the minds, hearts, discourse, media and wallets of fans from both sides. And game days are things of wonder.
I could certainly see why fans of Temple would want to play Rutgers.
I just can't figure what exactly would be the upside for Rutgers in playing Temple....besides of course prime 50 yardline seats for a road game at the Linc.
I like to think of Temple as having developed 2 star players with good coaching. Now under Ash I expect to do the same. Good coaching matters.
He de committed from Penn State since he wanted to stay locally. It was a given he was going to commit to Temple.
LOL @ The Ash blame by a few of you guys! His predecessor did serious damage to our recruiting, our recruiting image, and relationships statewide that had been build by his predecessor, when are some of you guys going to start understanding this? Judge Ash, and the quality of recruits he brings in, beginning with the 2017 class, not a class that was ranked in the 50's when he took over following a year filled with turmoil and a lousy product on the field. Don't you think that's fair? He's already off to a solid start.
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I hate to burst you bubble man and Temple has done a good job recently with coaches. If Temple has another good year next year with all they lost, similar to Golden the minute a good P5 program offers a big contract, not just talks about it (and they will) Rhule will be on it in a blink. If Franklin sucks the next couple years and gets canned I guarantee Rhule would jump the second he got a chance to coach PSU
Yeah, ok
Worry about the stellar coach you guys have. BTW, MRs other half, a PSU grad by the way, compares SC to a cow pasture which we all know it is. She only confirms it. The city woman has no interests or desires of returning to a location where she spent her late teens and early 20s.
Worry about the stellar coach you guys have. BTW, MRs other half, a PSU grad by the way, compares SC to a cow pasture which we all know it is. She only confirms it. The city woman has no interests or desires of returning to a location where she spent her late teens and early 20s.
I understand being a homer but thinking a 40 year old rising coach would give up coaching a good P5 program to stay at temple is just delusion. I'm sure you were yelling and screaming a few years back that both Golden and Addazzio wouldn't leave either. Congrats on your best year ever. Congrats on winning ur second ever division title.but please be real. Ur answer for why Rhule wouldn't jump at PSU is his wife calls it a cow pasture... Really? Do you really believe that?
No matter like I said if next year after temple loses 12 starters, they can come back and be decent. Rhule is gone sorry to break it to you and if you want to live in denial that's fine too. Sometimes ignorance is bliss
Happy to, I will put a wager on that, loser pays for a year of premium on that? I'm game.
I will put a wager that if Temple wins 9 games or more next year (one less than this year) Rhule will be gone. I honor my bets as well and we can even wire the money into a paypal. I'm very serious on this.
You know it could help us recruit South Jersey better. It's a philly media market which ignores Rutgers. Putting a game in their city every other year and in off years a win over temple would help.
Rutgers playing Temple would actually be very bad for Temple. Temple relies heavy on SJ recruiting. What would SJ recruits think when they see RU fans outnumber Temple fans at the Linc? It would be an eye opener for them.
Temple wasn't outdrawn by either Notre Dame or Penn State this year, despite the size and fervor of those fan bases. Of course, those games also have more marquee value to the more casual Temple fans, too, which really stimulated home-team ticket sales. Rutgers wouldn't have that same appeal to the casual Temple fan. So the breakdown would be interesting, but I can guarantee it wouldn't look anything like that last game, three or four years ago.
No so sure about that. It might be unwise to think of recruiting only in terms of Temple vis a vis Rutgers. Of course we go against each other. But if such a series were to occur, the fan and consequent media and social interest well could benefit both universities -- because -- many recruits who leave PA and NJ for out of states schools (or in our case in state Penn State) would be moved to stay at home rather than go away to, pick one out of your hat, say Kentucky, North Carolina, or (why on earth would they go there?) Iowa State.
It would still be similar to the game from 4 years ago. Rutgers doesn't have the same appeal as ND or PSU to temple fans. The hardcore fans would be there, but the casual fan needs more of a reason to go to the game. Plus, to most Rutgers fans a game at the Linc is like another home game as far as travel.
The administration at Temple is very pleased with their athletic department as a whole.It is a good school in the middue of a great city
Actually it's "in the middle" of North Philly, and a very rundown, scary area, and is far from a "good school" if you look at the World University rankings.
...I'll give Temple crowds credit when they break 40k for a conference home game at the Linc. Heck, how many times have they hit 35k for any team not named PSU or Notre Dame?
Joe P.
Temple doesn't have much of a draw for Rutgers and yet there we were, outnumbering Temple fans at the Linc.
Most Temple fans despise Rutgers. If Temple is having a good year and they're playing Rutgers, they should have a decent draw.
I would love to play Temple again. I would also like to play Uconn and Syracuse simply because its a good little northeast rivalry and wouldn't mind Temple getting in on that. I really wish there was a true northeast football conference.
Is that idiot Missanelli still on there? I used to carpool with a buddy who listened to him religiously. The guy was almost as bad as Francesa.
Missanelli somehow manages to come off as more pompous than Francesa in some respects. And Philly sports radio as a whole can't hold a candle to that in NY. I think it's a combination of the "Negadelphia" attitude among the local fans here, and the fact that because Philly's teams have been so bad, they often fall back on very general discussions rather than the nuances of a game or plays within a game. If you hate when Francesa starts talking about movies, you'd despise Missanelli's takes on fashion and food as well as his bits like General Knowledge Wednesdays, when each caller can answer a trivia question that is completely unrelated to sports.
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