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October 30, 2015
6:22 am
Temple is a great school, and the football program is really on the rise. Matt Rhule is an incredibly impressive young head coach. Temple and Matt deserver all the respect in the world for what they have accomplished.
But, if Coach Rhule openly and honestly commented on a post like this, based upon these suppositions, and errors in logic, he would scratch his head and say thank you very much, and walk away from the conversation immediately.
One of the best thing the coach embodies in the Temple program is when he says he will say nothing bad about the opponent because they allow the team to actually find out how good they really are. If you watched his press conference, Coach Rhule’s theme was, “We have a chance to show how good we really are!”
He followed that with how incredibly talented this Notre Dame team actually is. (Original starters out and all.) He followed that with the fact that this weekend was already a win, because it showed the world what a great place Temple was, and really helps with the future of the program, etc.
Just an example of how your logic works (only from the other side) : The Notre Dame team you face has many of the same players that played in the 2013 game as well. But many of them have been beat out by younger players that have increased the level of performance tremendously, the speed, size, strength, stamina, and depth of team ‘127’ is off the charts compared to what Temple has seen.
Finally, good luck this weekend. I hope the Owls do play well. But be kind to yourself and the team if the results don’t go your way. Some have said this is the biggest game in Temple program history. That I cannot say, but I do know you have never played a team like the one Notre Dame brings to town this week!
Rhule moved their former QB to H-back, and Gibson thought they were going to throw 500 Flea Flickers to win the game. They never pulled one out, and he cried about it afterwards. He always starts off conservative at the beginning of the week, and then goes full Kool-Aid man by Thursday/Friday. He pulled out a bunch of bullshit "facts" in the last meeting too to support his reasoning why Temple was going to win. My favorite was he compared games against similar opponents each team played in not just 2012, but 20-fucking-eleven! To go beyond that, he even made comparisons to teams Temple played one year, and then compared how we fared against the same team in a DIFFERENT year. For one, the Transitive Property in football doesn't really work, but it's even better when you're comparing teams in different years to each other.
