With the departure of Matt Rhule last tuesday, Temple Football is in search of a new head coach heading into the offseason. Rhule had been the team’s head coach since the 2013 season, and led the Owls to back to back 10 win seasons, including an AAC title this season. Assistant coach Ed Foley will take over the interim job for the Military Bowl against Wake Forest, but the program is left to look for its next long term head coach. Here are some possible candidates for the job.
Phil Snow
Snow, the current defensive coordinator at Temple, is an obvious candidate, and would benefit the program because he is popular among his players. Many players, including Phillip Walker and Haason Reddick took to twitter voicing their support of the Owl’s defensive coordinator. Players used the #LetItSnow on twitter, to show their support.
Snow, along with Rhule, came to Temple in 2013, and has led a stellar Temple defense since his arrival. This season, the Owl’s defense ranks 3rd in the nation in total defense, behind only Alabama, and Michigan.
Snow has coached at many big name schools including; Boise State, California, Arizona, UCLA, and Washington. He also was a member of the detroit lions coaching staff from 2005-2008, serving as a defensive assistant, and linebackers coach. Snow has never been a head coach at the collegiate level.
Hiring Snow would benefit Temple in the recruiting aspects, as keeping the hire in house would essentially help already committed recruits remain committed, and would help Temple’s recruiting in the future because of Snow’s experience in the area.
Ed Foley
Foley is the team’s interim head coach heading into the bowl game, and is another possible in house hire for head coach. Foley ha
s been at Temple since 2008, and has served a multitude of positions within the program. Most recently, Foley was the team’s assistant head coach, and tight ends coach before being promoted to the interim head coach position last week.
Foley was the head coach at Fordham, where he posted a 7-15 record in two seasons with the Rams. Foley has coached locally at the University of Pennsylvania, before eventually coming to Temple.
John DeFilippo
According to Marc Narducci, current Philadelphia Eagles quarterback coach John DeFilippo has been contacted by Temple about the head coaching position. DeFilippo graduated from Radnor High School, and took over as the Eagles quarterbacks coach this season.
DeFilippo has served as the quarterbacks coach of four different NFL teams, and was the offensive coordinator at San Jose State in 2011. Before joining the Eagles, Defilippo was the offensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns in 2015.
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