Ignoring for a moment the massive elephant in the room when comparing Temple's 2015 season and ours....
Domers up 7-3 after one but Temple holding their own in front of a packed house at the Linc, a little over half Cherry and White--certainly not the overwhelmingly pro-ND crowd that the French no doubt expected when they scheduled this game.
Growing up in Philly Temple football wasn't even an afterthought, it wasn't a thought at all--my dad used to take me to a lot of minor-league sporting events as a kid (AHL hockey, indoor soccer, indoor lacrosse) and despite that the first time in my life I ever went to a Temple game was my freshman year at BC, also the last time I ever went to the Vet. Maybe 8k people at that game, at least half BC fans. Also went the next 2 years which were BC's last 2 in the Big East, 2003 had a decent crowd by Temple standards at the time (around 20k) which was probably thanks to the new stadium, 2004 (the game where Paul Pete got hurt) was back to around 10k, mostly BC fans. Anyway back then they were the absolute joke of D1A football, came close to folding the program on several occasions, an automatic win for everyone on their schedule except Rutgers who was their co-perennial basement dweller in the Old Big East. But Golden and, yes, Daz did a commendable job building up the program. Now they're getting good crowds, GameDay, they're ranked and playing a good ND team tough.
But hey at BC "we are what we are", right??
Domers up 7-3 after one but Temple holding their own in front of a packed house at the Linc, a little over half Cherry and White--certainly not the overwhelmingly pro-ND crowd that the French no doubt expected when they scheduled this game.
Growing up in Philly Temple football wasn't even an afterthought, it wasn't a thought at all--my dad used to take me to a lot of minor-league sporting events as a kid (AHL hockey, indoor soccer, indoor lacrosse) and despite that the first time in my life I ever went to a Temple game was my freshman year at BC, also the last time I ever went to the Vet. Maybe 8k people at that game, at least half BC fans. Also went the next 2 years which were BC's last 2 in the Big East, 2003 had a decent crowd by Temple standards at the time (around 20k) which was probably thanks to the new stadium, 2004 (the game where Paul Pete got hurt) was back to around 10k, mostly BC fans. Anyway back then they were the absolute joke of D1A football, came close to folding the program on several occasions, an automatic win for everyone on their schedule except Rutgers who was their co-perennial basement dweller in the Old Big East. But Golden and, yes, Daz did a commendable job building up the program. Now they're getting good crowds, GameDay, they're ranked and playing a good ND team tough.
But hey at BC "we are what we are", right??
