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Excerpts from a 2006 Al Golden article:
Call it culture shock for a Temple football program that has been thumped by a national anvil. From classmates, friends, even professors, Owls players have heard the taunts and derision regarding their status as a laughingstock. It's been a systematic shellacking, made worse by the expectation that each week they will lose again, fail again, suffer more humiliation. Coach Al Golden's job is to change this culture of losing. Beating Bowling Green, 28-14, to snap the nation's longest losing streak in Division I-A football at 20 games, is a start.
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"Thanks," Golden tells his players in the locker room afterward. "This is for you seniors. Remember this feeling. Remember the time and commitment you went through to get it. But we're not done. Not even close. We still have a lot of work ahead. Remember what it's like to win guys, but remember it's just one win. There's still a lot that has to be fixed."
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"We need to convince guys to sell out, that we have to do anything to win this game, and it's a game we can win," Golden tells his staff. "Any suggestions to call out players by name, or call them out as a group to sell out. Our goal is to build the mental intensity of this team to win.
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"There's a whole different feeling we have here," he says. "We have 10 commitments already, and in the last five years, this is the earliest I've seen that many kids commit to our program. We're going after kids locally that we never even bothered going after before. Our guys are all over them. They're not afraid to go up against the big schools. There is a definite change in strategy."
Excerpts from a 2006 Al Golden article:
Call it culture shock for a Temple football program that has been thumped by a national anvil. From classmates, friends, even professors, Owls players have heard the taunts and derision regarding their status as a laughingstock. It's been a systematic shellacking, made worse by the expectation that each week they will lose again, fail again, suffer more humiliation. Coach Al Golden's job is to change this culture of losing. Beating Bowling Green, 28-14, to snap the nation's longest losing streak in Division I-A football at 20 games, is a start.
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"Thanks," Golden tells his players in the locker room afterward. "This is for you seniors. Remember this feeling. Remember the time and commitment you went through to get it. But we're not done. Not even close. We still have a lot of work ahead. Remember what it's like to win guys, but remember it's just one win. There's still a lot that has to be fixed."
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"We need to convince guys to sell out, that we have to do anything to win this game, and it's a game we can win," Golden tells his staff. "Any suggestions to call out players by name, or call them out as a group to sell out. Our goal is to build the mental intensity of this team to win.
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"There's a whole different feeling we have here," he says. "We have 10 commitments already, and in the last five years, this is the earliest I've seen that many kids commit to our program. We're going after kids locally that we never even bothered going after before. Our guys are all over them. They're not afraid to go up against the big schools. There is a definite change in strategy."
