Part of Temple's problem is that they have gone through decades and decades of awfulness. You can't be terrible, and Temple was often Terrible over the years, and develop any fan base. In many respects they were like Rutgers without Schiano. Reality is that from 1980 until 2009 Temple had 2 winning seasons and one .500 season and none since 1990. Arguably worse than Rutgers. and many of those seasons were beyond dreadful. Over that period they had 7 1-win seasons, 4 2-win seasons and 3 0-win seasons. Students don't go tho the games? Heck, its a wonder the players even bothered going to the games...in fact one has to ask if they actually did sometimes. In the late 70s, early 80s Temple drew respectable home crowds (25-30,000+-) but as we've seen, losing is not good for the gate, and going a couple of decades without winning really hurts it. Before Al Golden, they were as close to an automatic win as there is in sports. Add to that that they didn't really have a home stadium, they played home games at Franklin field, The Vet and sometimes both. Temple would probably benefit greatly from landing a solid head coach who stays a while to rebuild the program though that is easier said than done, obviously, and getting a moderate sized stadium of their own, somehting in the 30,000 range, that won't look empty even when they manage to actually draw a decent crowd.
