The program has seldom been able to perpetuate competence, much less success — to compete for recruits against schools whose football programs run those schools is absurd.

The Temple University athletic department announced that Stan Drayton is leaving the Owl football program after joining the team as head coach in 2021.

On Sunday, Temple announced its decision to fire head coach Stan Drayton who served as Texas' running backs coach from 2017-2021. Less than 24 hours later, Florida Atlantic reportedly fired head coach Tom Herman. Texas hired Herman as its head coach in 2017 and he was let go three years later.