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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1788686, member: 2141"] Basically, Temple is a large, public, urban university (similar to U Houston and Memphis in that regard); but with better academics (#115 nationally) than Houston, Memphis (and Louisville). The school is in one of the country's largest TV markets (#4); but, the Owls are often buried by Penn St in football and Villanova in basketball along with a full slate of pro sports teams. Temple has begun to take sports more seriously lately as they are in the process of moving most of their Olympic sports from their suburban campus to the main campus and they are pushing plans to build a 30K to 40K football stadium on the main campus, which has decent support from City Hall as the politicians hope it will be a catalyst to help improving what was once a really rough neighborhood. The football team currently plays at Lincoln Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles and it is apparently costing the University and arm and a leg to do so. Basketball already plays on the main campus (been there, not bad, especially as it has direct subway access, though getting to it by car from the east (I-95), north, and west is a little scary). But, it looks the current Temple President was just canned and he was stadium supporter #1... [URL="http://articles.philly.com/2016-07-15/sports/74472906_1_stadium-deal-on-campus-stadium-theobald"]Jensen: Will Temple still build campus football stadium?[/URL] [/QUOTE]