College Football
Photo: Stan Drayton Twitter/@StanDraytonUT By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor The Temple Owls have reportedly found their next head football coach. University of Texas running backs/run game coordinator Stan Drayton has been tasked with rebuilding the program. Drayton, 50, has been a fixture in coaching circles since 1993. The Cleveland, OH native has […]
Photo: Temple Football/@Temple_FB By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor According to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman, the Temple football coaching search is coming down to Fran Brown and Stan Drayton. We profiled Brown and Drayton in previous reports about the Temple opening. As of yesterday.. Heard Fran Brown & Stan Drayton were still in the […]
By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Talk about a turn of events in the Temple football coaching search, FootballScoop.com is reporting that Temple is “zeroing in” on Rutgers University assistant Fran Brown as the next head coach of the Owls. Brown, a former Temple coach under Matt Rhule, has been a top choice of […]
By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor The Athletic’s Chris Vannini is reporting that University of Texas running backs coach/run game coordinator Stan Drayton is a “strong candidate” for the Temple coaching job. Drayton has been considered the Owls top target. Continue to hear Texas RB coach Stan Drayton as a strong candidate for the […]
Embed from Getty Images By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Former University of Miami head coach Manny Diaz has been announced as Penn State’s new defensive coordinator. He takes over for Brent Fry who took the head coaching job at Virginia Tech. Diaz, 47, is coming off of a disappoint stint as head coach […]
Photo: Temple Football/@Temple_FB By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor All is quiet on the Temple football coaching search front. Insanely quiet especially considering the chaos of the coaching carousel around landscape of college football. Despite the silence, there are rumblings among insiders that athletic director Arthur Johnson could be dipping into his past, particularly […]
Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor One of James Franklin’s in-house options to replace former defensive coordinator Brent Fry, now the head coach at Virginia Tech, looks to be hitting the road to Virginia as well. Jerry Ratcliffe is reporting that co-defensive coordinator Anthony Poindexter will be named the next […]
Photo: Penn State/@PennState_FB Penn State (7-5, 4-5 Big Ten) is headed to Tampa, FL to face the Arkansas Razorbacks (8-4, 4-4 SEC) in the annual Outback Bowl on January 1, 2022. It will be the Nittany Lions fourth trip the Outback Bowl and first since 2011. IT’S OFFICIAL!!! @RazorbackFB and @PennStateFball are heading to the […]
Embed from Getty Images By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Penn State will be sending six players, or more, to the prestigious Senior Bowl on February 5 in Mobile, AL. Nittany Lions’ place kicker/punter Jordan Stout, a first-team All-Big Ten selection, accepted an invite to play in the game on Thursday. Stout will join […]
Embed from Getty Images By Michael Lipinski, Sports Talk Philly Contributor Penn State safety Jaquan Brisker and defensive end Arnold Ebiketie had themselves quite a day. Both were selected as consensus first-team All-Big Ten selections by the Big Ten media and coaches. The duo were among ten Nittany Lions defensive players to take home All-Big […]
