The program has seldom been able to perpetuate competence, much less success — to compete for recruits against schools whose football programs run those schools is absurd.

On Sunday, Temple announced its decision to fire head coach Stan Drayton who served as Texas' running backs coach from 2017-2021. Less than 24 hours later, Florida Atlantic reportedly fired head coach Tom Herman. Texas hired Herman as its head coach in 2017 and he was let go three years later.

Temple has fired coach Stan Drayton with just two weeks left in the 2024 season, the university announced Sunday. The timing is interesting, given that the Owls are one day remove