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RE: What teams would you add to ACC if raided?
(04-16-2022 11:35 PM)Statefan Wrote: (04-16-2022 11:04 PM)Milwaukee Wrote: (04-16-2022 09:08 PM)Statefan Wrote: UConn and Temple would both face blackballs based on football and other issues.
Temple's FB program is going through a complete rebuild, with an entirely new coaching staff, constituted of veteran coaches, many of whom have coached at P5 schools. Temple's new FB HC and AD are both from the University of Texas.
They've gotten off to a strong start with impressive recruiting.
Temple has taken swift action to replace an underperforming HC, and has proven that it has the ability and determination to maintain a strong football program:
2019: 8-5
2018: 8-5
2017: 7-6
2016: 10-4 AAC Championship Team
2015: 10-4 AAC East Division Championship Team
Temple also has a new President - a Stanford graduate and athlete (FB, track) who is more focused on athletic success than the university's recent Presidents have been. He has made it clear that his mandate is to move the university up to the next level, both athletically and academically.
The rebuilding process may take a year or two, but Temple's football program may make its way back into the upper echelon of the AAC by 2023-24.
The university's MBB program - - ranked #24th in the nation on the CBS Sports list of the greatest men's basketball programs of all time - - which finished in 4th place this season, is further along in its rebuilding program, and it, too, has the potential to move into the upper echelon of the AAC by 2023-24.
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Temple has systemic issues of which Football is just one issue. For their age and enrollment, their endowment is very weak. They were kicked out of the Big East. While they have a respectable program now, they did not have one for more than a decade around the 90's. Clemson with half the students, an all male military school until 1955, has 50% more endowment. MD has had similar issues. Temple also faces extreme competition in their home DMA - all the Philly pro sports, PSU football, and they face academic competition for eyes and attention from Penn, Pitt, Princeton, Villanova, Bryn Mawr, and PSU, I guess you could add the Blue Hens to that.
Temple, founded in 1884, is one of the nation's top-100 to 110-ranked R1 major research universities. Like the other major research universities in its conference, it has made considerable progress over the past decade, due in part to the benefits of being a member of the AAC, such as increased applications and rising selectivity of admissions.
Temple's endowment has tripled, and is now an estimated $700,000,000 to $750,000,000 ($0.70 - $0.75 billion).
Temple's graduate level (law, medicine, business, technological, Ph.D.) programs and faculty have been highly respected, nationally, for many decades, and their undergraduate programs have been improving over the past decade, as admissions have become more selective. Temple is very proud of its heritage as a university that was founded with an historical mission of providing working citizens the opportunity to pursue a college education.
Temple was a football member of the Big East for 16 seasons, from its inception in 1991 through 2004, and in 2012, when it rejoined the Big East after completing a very successful rebuilding program. Because the Big East (and the AAC in 2013-14) was a BCS conference, Temple has the distinction of being one of the nation's few non-P5 universities (e.g., Houston, Cincinnati, SMU, Tulane, & UConn) that have been members of a power conference.
With respect to competition with other pro and college athletic teams in the region, that level of competition certainly isn't an insuperable obstacle. Major universities in Los Angeles (USC, UCLA), Miami, and Houston have had tremendous success in FB and BB despite having to compete with the same level of competition with nearby professional and collegiate teams.
The major broadcasters have made it clear that one of the most important criteria for the conferences to consider when adding new members is the size of the university's regional market area.
The Philadelphia metropolitan area, which encompasses much of southern New Jersey and populous areas in Delaware and southeastern PA, is the nation's seventh-largest (pop. 6.25 million).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolit...tical_area
Thus, Temple would, uniquely, enable the ACC to add the third-largest market region on the Atlantic seaboard, where it currently has no members. Temple would be a convenient travel partner for BC, Syracuse, Pitt, VT, and UVA, and would help to bridge the geographical gap between the the ACC's northern and southern universities which was vacated by Maryland when it joined the Big Ten.
If the university's FB and BB programs are able to establish themselves in the upper tier of the AAC over the next 3-5 years and beyond, Temple could become an attractive expansion candidate for the ACC.
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(This post was last modified: 04-17-2022 01:21 AM by Milwaukee.)
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