Articles by Mike Lipinski (1264)
The Temple Owls and head coach Stan Drayton enter a pivotal year for the program in 2024.Drayton enters his third year as the head football coach on North Broad Street and has thrown all of his eggs into the transfer portal basket. In fact, the Owls rank 4th in the FBS with 43 total […]
The score of the game Saturday afternoon’s game makes it seem like Temple actually put up a fight. However, it could have been further from the truth, as the Temple Owls were sunk by the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen, 38-11, in the 2024 American Athletic Conference season opener. The Mids opened the scoring […]
The Stan Drayton era at Temple University has come to an end. As announced by athletic director Arthur Johnson, Drayton has been relieved of his duties as Temple football’s head coach effective immediately. The decision comes a day after Temple needed overtime to defeat Florida Atlantic in American Athletic Conference play. Temple Announces Football […]
Less than a month after firing head football coach Stan Drayton, Temple University has found a new leader for the Owls. The University has named Sam Houston’s K.C. Keeler as their new head football coach. Keeler, 65, is a native of Emmaus, PA and led Sam Houston to the 2020 FCS National Championship and […]
The college football transfer portal giveth and the college football transfer portal taketh. In the case of defensive back Dashawn Lawton, the Temple Owls have lucked out nabbing the former Slippery Rock starter on Monday. 🦉🏠 @CoachKCKeeler @Coachblsmith @CoachAhmadTUFF #LLA #TempleTuff pic.twitter.com/p2JCA8MbJb — Dashawn |Pooh| Lawton (@PoohLawton) April 21, 2025 “Pooh,” as the Newark (NJ) […]
The Temple Owls announced the signing of former Delaware Blue Hens wide receiver JoJo Bermudez out of the NCAA transfer portal. Let’s rock, @jojobermudez3 🤝 Welcome to 10th & Diamond!#TempleTUFF pic.twitter.com/95Dxd09Llq — Temple Football (@Temple_FB) April 29, 2025 The Cedar Creek (Egg Harbor City, NJ) product joins the Owls after two seasons down I-95 with […]
Photo: Virginia Tech Football/@HokiesFB By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Penn State’s coaching staff has taken it’s first hit of the chaotic college football coaching carousel. Defensive coordinator Brent Pry has officially been named as the new head football coach at Virginia Tech. Pry, 51, had been with Penn State since 2014 serving in […]
Photo: Temple Football/@Temple_FB By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor All is quiet on the Temple football coaching search front. Insanely quiet especially considering the chaos of the coaching carousel around landscape of college football. Despite the silence, there are rumblings among insiders that athletic director Arthur Johnson could be dipping into his past, particularly […]
By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor The Athletic’s Chris Vannini is reporting that University of Texas running backs coach/run game coordinator Stan Drayton is a “strong candidate” for the Temple coaching job. Drayton has been considered the Owls top target. Continue to hear Texas RB coach Stan Drayton as a strong candidate for the […]
By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Talk about a turn of events in the Temple football coaching search, FootballScoop.com is reporting that Temple is “zeroing in” on Rutgers University assistant Fran Brown as the next head coach of the Owls. Brown, a former Temple coach under Matt Rhule, has been a top choice of […]