When Jim Harbaugh was playing quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, long before his current job as head coach with the San Francisco 49ers, the team was known as the Cardiac Kids for big fourth-quarter comebacks. The AAC has its own [...]
In the real world, an employee who shows gross incompetence gets a period of about two months, not a year or years to evaluate his performance. It’s called a probationary period. The probationary period of first-year Temple head football coach [...]
Every fifth grade student learns this basic tenant in Geometry class: the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Little Matty Rhule must have called in sick for that class because on Saturday, inches from the Rutgers’ 20 with less than two [...]
In a few months, Teddy Bridgewater will be gone from both Louisville and the AAC, and a league searching for new stars might need look no further than P.J. Walker for its next superstar. The true freshman quarterback lifted Temple to its first [...]
Many people are talking about the relatively simple schedule put in place for the Louisville Cardinals in 2013. It looks like this team has a serious chance of going unbeaten and no one would really be that surprised if they [...]
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish made an improbable run in 2012 to the BCS national title game, taking on the Alabama Crimson Tide. However, the Irish were beat up on big time and heading into the 2013 season, they still [...]
The American Athletic Conference held its first-ever Media Day today in Newport RI, and all of the coaches got up and said how excited they were about the season that begins in a month. No one really knows who will win the [...]
Continuing the Rant Sports 100 in 100 series, we head to the Big East to check in on the Temple Owls. New head coach Matt Rhule takes over after Steve Addazio bolted for the Boston College Eagles job, leaving a [...]
As Matt Rhule takes over the Temple Owls program and attempts to rebuild it into a Big East contender in 2013, he was forced to shake up the depth chart this offseason. Former fourth-string quarterback Connor Reilly has moved up [...]
The Temple Owls struggled to move the football much in 2012, ranking No. 107 in the country in total offense, averaging just 322 yards per game. Much of that could be blamed on the Owls’ extreme lack of balance under [...]