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Season 9, Episode 3: Temple’s season opener is here

Year two of the Stan Drayton era is here.

 

Temple will open its 2023 season Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lincoln Financial Field against Akron, and we have audio from Drayton and linebacker Jordan Magee as we give listeners a closer look at the Zips. 

 

Although Temple is currently a 10-point favorite heading into Saturday, Akron may not exactly be the pushover that the line and the Zips' 2-10 record from a year ago would indicate. Second-year Akron head coach Joe Moorhead is one of the most respected offensive minds in college football, and the Zips loaded up on transfers during the offseason who could potentially make an impact Saturday. 

 

Plus, we have more on Temple's nonconference men's basketball schedule and answers to your mailbag questions. 

Season 9, Episode 2: Temple point guard Hysier Miller and TUFF Fund Executive Director Andy Carl join The Scoop

Temple point guard Hysier Miller and Andy Carl, the executive director of the TUFF Fund collective, joined this week's podcast to talk about how they have collaborated in the NIL space, includes Miller's upcoming Philly Point Guard Academy camp next Wednesday at North Philadelphia's Cristo Rey High School. 

Carl, a two-time Temple graduate, talked about the origins of the TUFF Fund and why he believes supporting and investing in Name, Image and Likeness efforts and initiatives is critically important. He also offered his perspective on why a student athlete like Miller, a rising junior in first-year head coach Adam Fisher's program, has been an impactful ambassador.

In addition to hosting his camp next week, Miller also just published his first book titled No Place Like Home: We Have Unfinished Business with the help of Delgreco Wilson's Black Cager Press. Beyond basketball, Miller hopes his book will bring more attention and conversation to the issue of gun violence that has plagued the nation and the city of Philadelphia. 

The OwlScoop.com staff also talked about Temple's newest football single digits, more success for Temple women's basketball coach Diane Richardson on the recruiting trail, and answered some mailbag questions, too. 

Season 9, Episode 1: A single-digit vote and a scrimmage await the Owls this weekend

The first episode of our ninth season of OwlScoop.com's podcast will get you ready for Temple's season Sept. 2 season opener, which is now three weeks away. 

 

Second-year head coach Stan Drayton told reporters that the team would conduct its next single-digit vote Friday and then scrimmage Saturday. This week's episode includes audio from Drayton, cornerback Jalen McMurray and quarterback E.J. Warner.

 

We also have audio from TUFF Fund Executive Director Andy Carl, who spoke Tuesday night during an NIL information session hosted by the Temple Owl Club and the Temple University Alumni Association. 

Season 8, Episode 53: Temple LBs Jordan Magee and Yvandy Rigby share their stories

With Temple set to kick off its preseason camp next week under second-year head coach Stan Drayton, Owls linebackers Jordan Magee and Yvandy Rigby joined us on The Scoop this week to talk about why they both had career-best seasons last year and why they can be even better in 2023. 

 

Magee, who led Temple with 86 tackles last season in addition to posting 9.0 TFLs and 4.5 sacks, talked about what it means to be a single-digit player and who he thinks could join him this season.

 

Rigby, who was born in Turks and Caicos and had only played football for a couple of seasons before arriving at Temple, was the Owls' second-leading tackler last season with 82 stops to go with 5.5 TFLs and 2.0 sacks. He talked about how he went from being a guy who couldn't catch a football when he first started to being able to chase down future NFL running back Isiah Pacheco during his high school playing days at South Jersey's Egg Harbor Township. 

Season 8, Episode 52: Scouting Temple’s 2024 and ’25 recruiting targets with Elite High School Scouting’s Ari Rosenfeld

Ari Rosenfeld, the owner and scouting director of Elite High School Scouting, joined The Scoop this week to give listeners a detailed overview of just about every player Temple head coach Adam Fisher and his staff are recruiting in the 2024 and 2025 classes. 

 

From players with local roots like 2024 guard Izaiah Pasha and 2025 standouts like KJ Cochran, Kai Shinholster and Matt Gilhool, to regional and national recruits like Chicago's Angelo Ciaravino and North Carolina guards like Isaiah Henry and Jaylen Cross, Ari has seen them all and talked about them on this week's podcast. 

 

We also have your latest Temple football and basketball recruiting updates, a look ahead to Temple's connections to the upcoming TBT, and answers to your mailbag questions. 

Season 8, Episode 51: Our conversation with Khalif Wyatt, Temple’s new director of player development

Khalif Wyatt, one of the best guards in the history of the Temple program, is back on North Broad Street as Adam Fisher's director of player development. 

 

This week's podcast includes the first part of John DiCarlo's conversation with Wyatt, who collected 1,576 points, 295 assists and 273 rebounds in his four-year playing career with the Owls from 2009 to 2013. Wyatt, who will be able to coach on the court this season in his director of player development role, will also coach the Big 5 team in the upcoming TBT, and he said he will play once again this summer in the annual Danny Rumph Classic next month. 

 

OwlScoop.com subscribers will get access to the full interview with Wyatt, which includes his scouting reports on several Temple players, including Jahlil White and newcomers Jordan Riley, Steve Settle, Quante Berry and Matteo Picarelli. 

 

We also have some football and basketball recruiting updates as well, along with some impact players to watch on both sides of the ball as Stan Drayton heads into his second preseason football camp with the Owls next month. 

 

Season 8, Episode 50: Former Owl Trey Lowe shares his story

More than seven years after a car accident that nearly cost him his life and ended a very promising college basketball career, former Temple guard Trey Lowe has peace in his life again and a coaching future ahead. 

 

Lowe recently wrapped up his first season on La Salle's staff as the Explorers' director of player development under Big 5 Hall of Famer Fran Dunphy, the head coach who brought him to North Broad Street as a top-150 recruit in the 2015 class out of New Jersey's Ewing High School. 

 

On this week's OwlScoop.com podcast, Lowe talked about how he learned to work through the physical and mental recovery from his car accident and accept his new path in life, one that has now led him into coaching. 

 

In addition to the work he's doing for the Explorers, Lowe talked about what's head for him as an assistant coach this month for The Basketball Tournament's Broad Street Birds team, a squad comprised mostly of former Temple players.

Season 8, Episode 49: Ben Osueke sees Temple playing in a bowl game in 2023

Ben Osueke, a cornerback from Blinn Junior College who signed with Temple as part of its 2023 recruiting class, joined John DiCarlo and Declan Landis on this week's episode of The Scoop to talk about the Owls' upcoming preseason camp and why he's optimistic about the team playing more than 12 games this season. 

We also have football and basketball recruiting updates for you and answers to your mailbag questions. 

Season 8, Episode 48: Temple right tackle Victor Stoffel sees an improved, deeper Owls’ offensive line

Right tackle Victor Stoffel talked to John DiCarlo and Declan Landis on this week's podcast to talk about what he believes is an improved Temple offensive line.

 

With preseason camp a little more than a month away, the 6-foot-8, 300-pound redshirt junior offered listeners some insight into his recovery from offseason knee surgery, why he's feeling as healthy as he has in a long time, and why he is encouraged from what he has seen from midyear additions at tackle in freshman Melvin Siani and junior Diego Barajas. 

 

This week's podcast also includes more football recruiting updates, a clip from Max Dinenberg's interview with Temple recruiting target and Clearwater Academy International edge rusher Samuel Ehret, and answers to a wide-ranging mailbag. 

 

*Editors note: This week's episode was recorded prior to Temple receiving a verbal commitment from tight end Daniel Evert. A 6-foot-5, 235-pound native of Regensburg, Germany, Evert attended Stan Drayton's June 11 prospect camp while part of the PPI tour. He is the fifth player from the 2024 class to verbally commit to Temple. 

Season 8, Episode 47: Part I of our conversation with Adam Fisher

New Temple men's basketball coach Adam Fisher talked to OwlScoop.com Editor John DiCarlo this week, and you'll hear the first part of that interview on this week's podcast. 

 

Fisher, a Bucks County native who came to North Broad Street after two seasons as an assistant at Penn State, offered listeners a scouting report of the Owls' newest players  - Matteo Picarelli, Quante Berry, Jordan Riley and Steve Settle - and how he and his staff identified them and recruited them out of the transfer portal. Fisher also talked about his ascension through the coaching ranks and the people who have mentored him, including former Villanova head coach Jay Wright and Miami head coach Jim Larranaga.

 

Later on in the podcast, John and Declan Landis have the latest Temple football and basketball recruiting updates as well, in addition to answers to your mailbag questions.