I admit, I liked making the Philly road trips. I wish Temple had made a solid commitment to football.

If Temple had upgraded their facilities, even still now, and showed a serious commitment to winning they would have been a GREAT football-only member. Very good member. That's what ticks me off about the Temple athletic department doing that to that program.

I really miss playing Temple in basketball....WVU/Temple had a great bball rivalry once.....I would have no problem with them coming back or becoming an all sports member (if that were possible) if they could just improve a little bit in football


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Can you guys take back Temple, please?I have ZERO idea what the MAC was thinking taking Temple football only.

Temple would have been a great for the 9th member, alot of scheduling problems would have been solved. Also the BE needs a whipping boy to help get the wins for the big boys ie see Baylor for B12, Vandy for SEC, Duke for ACC. That almost guaranted win comes in handy.

FunkmasterFlash Wrote:Can you guys take back Temple, please?I have ZERO idea what the MAC was thinking taking Temple football only.

That's a good question. The MAC is a solid conference right now fighting for respect, Temple isn't going to help unless they start winning 6 or 7 games a year. Congrats on your 3rd bowl agreement! You guys definitely deserve at least 4 bowl alignments.

MissouriStateBears Wrote:Temple would have been a great for the 9th member, alot of scheduling problems would have been solved. Also the BE needs a whipping boy to help get the wins for the big boys ie see Baylor for B12, Vandy for SEC, Duke for ACC. That almost guaranted win comes in handy.

True! Apparently though, part of Temple's fall from grace is also rumored to be, lets just say, "incompatible" personalities involved with Temple officials and Big East officials. If the rumors are true that Temple fans were talking about.

Yeah Phily is a easy trip and Temple is a nice university. I really think had Temole been a "all sport" member they would have have spent the money better. In Basketball I''d take Nova over Temple and so would Big East. Temple hopefully will turn it around in MAC but they probably don't give a darn.[/b]

PusherT Wrote:Yeah Phily is a easy trip and Temple is a nice university. I really think had Temole been a "all sport" member they would have have spent the money better. In Basketball I''d take Nova over Temple and so would Big East. Temple hopefully will turn it around in MAC but they probably don't give a darn.[/b]

Maybe, but I don't buy that argument. Because, while Temple wasn't an All-Sports member, John Chaney had Temple basketball, for the majority of the time, on the same level as most of the Big East programs. So it was like they were in the Big East in a way. Temple was bringing in huge coin, maybe not at Big East level, but still very high. Totally unacceptable not to try and improve their athletic department.

If Temple continues to struggle in the MAC, the MAC will get more teams bowl elgible by beating up on Temple. There is always the chance that other conferences come up short in filling bowl slots. Having several weak teams can perhaps give an average team that one win that puts them 7-5 instead of 6-6. That makes a huge difference when leagues like the BE have lots of bowls and just eight teams. If Notre Dame were to have a 5-7 season with a top heavy year from BE, the BE would have trouble filling the Birmingham bowl. A 7-5 MAC team like BG or Akron can slip in with a D-AA win, Sun belt ooc cupcake, and beat EMU, Temple, UB, Kent State and Ohio. 7 wins over teams with 4 or less wins and bowl elgible. Now you see why MAC added Temple. More cupcakes for Akron, BGSU, and Miami.

I definately miss Temple. For whatever reason they always played Pitt tough. I would love to see them right the ship and return as either a FB only or a full member of the all sports conference. They have a lot of work to do before that happens though.

Is it me or would the Philly schools solve a lot of the Big East problems. Villanova if they would move up or Temple if they ever got their act together.

Not just you, that would resolve a bunch of problems.

how is it that Villanova can stand to play football in a league that gets passed from one conference to another. It was the Yankee conference or whatever it was called in the 90s. Then the A-10 took over the football conference, but half the teams were eventually playing their other sports in the Colonial Athletic Association, and now the football league is being handed over to the CAA to run the show. With Old Dominion adding football in a few years, the monarchs will be joining the league and there will be some stability for a change considering half the league will be all sports members of the CAA and will have no reason to leave. That basically leaves Richmond, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New HAmpshire and Villanova and rumor has it that those schools aren't too keen on being the "other guys" in the CAA.
Why doesn't Villanova just go ahead and move up to I-A football and become an all sports member of the Big East. It would shift the power from an 8-8 football-basketball split to a 9-7 split.

usmjournalism Wrote:Why doesn't Villanova just go ahead and move up to I-A football and become an all sports member of the Big East. It would shift the power from an 8-8 football-basketball split to a 9-7 split.

That is the question we ALL would like answered. It would solve many problems (i.e. scheduling) if they were to step-up. VU would recoup the expenses from BCS and tv monies eventually.

also, Marquette had a Div-1 program at one time (1945-1960).

Villanova is a private school and wouldn't have the state $$$ that UCONN had when they started their 1-A program. It would be much tougher for Nova.

work out a deal to use UPenn's stadium then. It's in Philly and it holds, what, 50,000?

usmjournalism, what's your angle with the questions ?

Why would any USM fan care about this ?

WVU82 Wrote:usmjournalism, what's your angle with the questions ?

Why would any USM fan care about this ?

As long as the Big East straightens itself out by looking internally. It means you don't come back to CUSA and force us to take teams like ULL, ASU, MTSU, FAU, FIU, ULM, La Tech, Troy or North Texas. Haven't you guys done enough damage to our conference? Do you really have to come back and finish us off?

Shoot, take Navy or do whatever you've got to do to force Notre Dame's hand into becoming an all sports member. Seems like you guys already have the ability to solve your scheduling issues by looking inside the Big East. No need to raid CUSA again.

usmjournalism Wrote:Haven't you guys done enough damage to our conference? Do you really have to come back and finish us off?

Are you serious ? (will be shortened to AYS in the future)

Do you think the BEast is to blame for hurting CUSA ? The blame is directly on the ACC. The BEast was about to kick the BCS-bucket due to our defections caused by the ACC. We were fighting for survival, the ACC and BEast defectors were in it for money. I'm amazed that we didn't lose our BCS bid, well, who isn't ? But, if blame is to laid anywhere, the ACC is the cause, they started the domino-effect. The BEast was just caught in the middle.

Just hand over ECU and everyone will be happy and we can stay on our own boards.