Owls have spent the last few days getting their brand name out.
By Mike Gibson
Al Golden has had to feel like a juggler in the last few days.
From the highly successful Al Golden Football Camp, to the Temple Owls' recent appearances on Independence Mall for a practice and Ocean City for a fanfest, the responsibilities of the head coach extend well beyond his office or the field below.
He's got to be part travel secretary, part football coach and it's a tougher job at Temple than most places because the Owls are battling for both visibility and respectability.
Even though he reached the advanced age of 40 a week or so ago, the coach is constantly keeping up with new technology to keep the Temple football brand name out there. He even joined twitter in the past few days and wouldn't getting daily Temple football updates on your cell phone in that manner from the Temple football coach be a hoot? Or a tweet?
"The Temple football team is a credit to Philadelphia and deserves to be rewarded with all of their hard work both on and off the field with a special season in 2009. Good luck, Owls, and a final piece of advice to the 260,000 living Temple alumni (along with 33K full-time students and 12K full-time employees): GET OUT AND BUY TICKETS TO SUPPORT THESE GUYS."Occasionally, though, something happens to make all of the ancillary things worthwhile.
_ My comment on Philly.com
The Temple football team won the Wanamaker Award for community service to Philadelphia. With the Phillies winning the other top award given at the banquet, the focus was on both Temple football and the world champion Phillies.
Not a bad pairing.
In the story running in the Daily News earlier this week, writer Ed Barkowitz focused on Temple's football team as much as the Phillies.
This caused me to write the following response on Phillies.com:
The Temple football team is a credit to Philadelphia and deserves to be rewarded with all of their hard work both on and off the field with a special season in 2009. Good luck, Owls, and a final piece of advice to the 260,000 living Temple alumni (along with 33K full-time students and 12K full-time employees): GET OUT AND BUY TICKETS TO SUPPORT THESE GUYS.
Now is the time to put your money where you mouth is if you haven't already done so. Please donate $5 or $10 here if you want a daily internet voice for Temple football and its players.Also, If you've never bought Temple tickets, buy season tickets now. Even if you've been to one or two games in the past, make a commitment to be at every game in this most important season.
It's as easy as a click away:
"This university has made a commitment to me and my commitment to it is that I will build a house of brick, not straw." _ Temple head coach Al Golden on the day he was hired
"It's very difficult for us to represent to our students that this is a first-rate University without providing the experiences that are offered elsewhere. A great football team, a great basketball team, a great dance program [among other things] . . . our students are entitled to all of that and we will provide it."
"Temple's success in 1A football would clearly help its image. Immediate positive public identification with Temple as a whole is what we're talking about. .... Temple's overall image has been boosted by the success of men's basketball led by Coach Chaney. Success in 1A football would have a far greater impact nationally than basketball (or virtually anything else) in developing the University's overall image. . ...Universities with 1A football programs must invest to succeed ..."
"We haven't tried winning yet. I think we'll do that next."
"After talking with Bill (Bradshaw), I was pumped up about coming back. But then I realized that, for now at least, the NFL is where I want to be. There is no doubt in my mind that you can have a winning program at Temple. No doubt whatsoever. There's no comparison between what they have now and what I had when I was there."
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