CBSSports.com is reporting that Mountain West officials are trying to persuade Boise State to remain in the conference.  The Broncos are scheduled to join the Big East as a football-only member in 2013.

The crazy thing is the Broncos have yet to formally notify the MWC that they are leaving. And one can only assume Boise State is having second thoughts about joining the Big East.

Click here to read the CBSSports.com article.

Temple’s football team has volunteered to work Sunday’s Susan G. Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure for the seventh straight season.

 Players and coaches will motivate runners to hand out water bottles during the 5K race/walk event, which raises money to fight breast cancer.

  It’s an event that’s dear to the hearts of Temple linebacker Brandon Chudnoff and offensive linemen Adam Metz and Evan Regas. All three players have mothers, who are survivors of breast cancer.

  Brandon Chudnoff, a redshirt freshman from George Washington High, has participated in the event long before becoming an Owl.

  “Me and my parents, we always organized a bus and get people to walk,” said Chudnoff, whose mother, Sylvita Chudnoff, is a five-year cancer survivor.  

  “We would have a team and we would get t-shirts made.”

  Like Chudnoff, Regas said he be on hand for the event at the Museum of the Art and Eakins Oval area even if Temple wasn’t involved.

  The race “means everything to me,” the Toms River, N.J. native said. “I saw my mom fight for the past four years.

  “So this makes me feel like I can give something back.”

  Last week, Regas’ mother, Susan Untoria, learned her breast cancer went into remission. Even still, Regas said it is still a “tricky situation.”

  “She still has tumors in her chest,” Regas said. “So she still goes and gets chemotherapy.

  “But the [remission] is good news. I mean two months ago, we got news that it spread to her neck and her liver. So this was really a blessing.”

  Metz realizes that his family is also blessed, as his mother, Lisa Metz, has been cancer-free for close to a year.

  “She pretty much just kicked cancer’s [butt],” said Metz, whose mother was diagnosed close to three years ago. “She really just pulled through radiation therapy.

  “I mean you can tell that it obviously takes a toll on you. But she just kept an upbeat attitude.”

  He’s eager to duplicate his mother’s upbeat attitude Sunday while volunteering.

Now, this is a shocker.

The Sporting News ranked the top 125 coaches of the Football Bowl Subdivision. And believe me; the publication wasn’t impressed with Steve Addazio’s record-setting first season at Temple.

He’s ranked 83d despite leading the Owls to a 9-4 record and a 37-15 victory over Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl. The victory marked Temple’s first bowl win since beating California in the Garden State Bowl in 1979. And Addazio set the school record for the most wins by a first-year head coach.

But, it appears the Sporting News gives most of the credit to former Temple coach Al Golden for last season’s success. Maybe it thinks Addazio just inherited a talented team. That would explain why Golden is ranked 34th despite the Hurricanes' 6-6 record from last season.

What do you think?

Temple is hosting former North Carolina State small forward Tyler Harris, according to multiple sources.

The 6-foot-9, 200-pounder, who the younger brother of Milwaukee Bucks forward Tobias Harris, was visible on campus Wednesday night with a Temple assistant.

Tyler Harris averaged just 1.8 points, 1.2 rebounds and 6.9 minutes this past season as a freshman.

His father, Torrel Harris, told USA Today he transferred from N.C. State due to lack of playing time.

"It's not about shying away from competition. My son has never done that," Torrel Harris told the newspaper. "He loves to compete.

“He played well in practice and wasn't rewarded. He was good enough to hold an All-American (Kansas' Thomas Robinson) scoreless for seven minutes in the Sweet 16, but when the team lost (four) games in a row, they never changed their rotation to play him. He wasn't recruited by [N.C. State first-year coach] Mark Gottfried, and he wanted to play his players."

As a high school senior at St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.), Harris was the nation’s 135^th-ranked recruit in the Class of 2011, according to Rivals.com.

According to College Football News, Temple’s return to the Big East Conference won't have a successful first season.

CFN predicts the Owls will finish last in the conference and have a 3-9 record (However, CFN is definitely wrong about the record. Temple will only play 11 games). The Owls are ranked 101 out of 124 schools in CFN’s post-spring rankings.

Man, one can only assume that Temple coach Steve Addazio will definitely use this as motivation.

Here’s CFN rankings for Big East teams and projected records.

No. 14 Louisville (10-2)

No. 25 Rutgers ( 9-3)

No. 37 Cincinnati (8-4)

No. 47 USF (7-5)

No. 51 Pitt (7-5)

No. 57 Syracuse (6-6)

No. 76 UConn (5-7)

No. 101 Temple (3-9)

Big East Conference interim commissioner Joe Bailey had his first teleconference with the media today. This was his first teleconference since replacing John Marinatto, who resigned Monday after fewer than three years as the Big East commissioner.

I will be providing a much more in-depth story about what was said during the teleconference in Thursday’s Inquirer. The Big East’s stability and national perception were hot topics.

But first, I wanted to provide a quick hit on my blog.

Here's some of Bailey's comments:

What are Bailey’s thoughts about speculations that conference schools that don’t play BCS football splitting from the league to form their own basketball conference?

“Yeah, I have a particular position on speculation versus reality.

“People that are stock brokers, stock pickers, people that pick games, things of that nature, are all spectators.  They're in the expectation market.

“We, the people that operate entities, enterprises, not‑for‑profits, et cetera, should operate them based on the real marketplace, the reality of the situation.

“The reality of the situation is that there has been no indication from anybody that I have talked to ‑‑ and again, I haven't talked to everybody, but from anybody that I've talked to, I've talked to quite a number of people that there's any kind of ‑‑ even close to this idea of any kind of split.”

What’s the level of commitment from Boise State and San Diego State to become Big East football members in 2013? There has been a thought that the two schools could attempt to get out of their commitments.

“Well, my sense is that unless you hear differently, I think that there's full commitment from their standpoint.

“You can't ‑‑ there's an expectation market, and then there's the reality market.  And the reality of it is that those schools have indicated, to my knowledge, to the executive committee and to the other members, that they have a big belief that the Big East is a really good partner for them.

“And when you think about it for a second, this is what this really is.  You've got 18 institutions that are really partners; so it's not just one institution, but it's all institutions pulling together. “

Does he expect  Syracuse and Pittsburgh to leave the league after next season?

“Well, the answer is, I wish I could see around corners, but I can't.  So really, I would not want to in any way speculate on what's going to happen with regards to those schools either way.  It's really in one sense not my position to sort of think that way.

“ I think that you have to recognize that my role is this transition role and transformational role preparing this particular position for another person, and that part of that is to help that individual transition into the role and the responsibilities and understand all of the different dynamics of the conference itself.

 “But as to those specific kinds of questions like that, that's not ‑‑ that really isn't ‑‑ I can't do it because I'm not smart enough, I think.”

 What can you do during your short tenure to refute the conference’s unraveling image?

“Well, I think, number one, as far as perceptions are concerned, it's very clear that the executive committee and the membership have made decisions about retaining really, really well respected strategy management consultants like Boston Consulting Group, Score Media for media, and others, to really evaluate in order to reframe, refocus, set the tone and move forward.

“So that in and of itself should send an enormous and very strong message to the marketplace that the BIG EAST is very, very focused on making sure that the perception out there isn't what you just described.

 “ And in fact, it isn't.  I can tell you just from being in the meetings that I've been in, it's not at all.  It's a very cohesive, very focused group.

 “And in terms of what we can do internally with all the stakeholders is simply to continue to send a message that this is exactly what is taking place.

 “ So it's a bit of really good communications internally along with very good communications externally.

 Why do you think the Big East won’t diminish its role in determining the BCS system?

“Well, unless I'm mistaken, everybody has got a vote, and their vote is ‑‑ I mean, the Big East vote is like any other member's vote; it's the same.  And you've got to be at the table where the Big East is at the table.”

Is Temple in the running for Boston College’s career rushing leader?

The answer is yes, according to Bruce Feldman of CBS Sports.

After standout tailback Montel Harris was kicked off Boston College’s football team, Feldman tweeted last week Harris " … may end up at Temple [with] exEagle assts.”

Harris, who was released for a repeated violation of team rules, would reunite with former Boston College wideouts coach Ryan Day and former Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Rogers if he transferred to Temple.

Day is Temple’s new offensive coordinator and wideouts coach. Rogers is the Owls’ new associate head coach and quarterbacks coach.

After receiving a medical redshirt, Harris has one more season of eligibility. Assuming he graduates, Harris can transfer anywhere he wants without sitting out a year if he takes graduate courses not offered at Boston College.

The 5-foot-10, 207-pounder played in just two games last season, because of a recurring knee injury. Harris also missed spring practice.

In addition to being the school's leading rusher (3,735 yards), he’s BC’s career leader in 100-yard games (22) and carries (786), and ranks third in touchdowns (27).

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Temple's basketball team prides itself on facing tough nonconference opponents.

That's why it's not surprising that the Owls will face national power Kansas in a home-and-home series. Temple is also scheduled to play Duke for the third consecutive season and 28th time overall. And as reported in March, Temple will also play Syracuse next season.

Temple will face Kansas next season at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. The two teams will play again during the 2014-15 season in Philadelphia, most likely at the Wells Fargo Center.

Kansas lost to Kentucky in this past season's NCAA national championship game. The Jayhawks finished the season with a 32-7 record.

The Owls will face the Blue Devils next season in the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J. This past season, Temple snapped a nine-game losing streak to Duke with a 78-73 upset at Wells Fargo. The Blue Devils finished last season 29-7 and lost to Lehigh in the second round of the NCAA tournament.