Based on the half-dozen articles I've read, it was a perfect storm of timing, greed, and bad organizational decisions that finally led to this Temple situation. I can't help to wonder about the health of the surviving Temple teams, and how many other "Temple-like" D1 programs there are out there needing to make similar fiscal cuts to survive due to bad conference moves. I guess if you are losing revenue with your D1 football program that is a big "heads-up" for anyone. With recent cuts at California, Towson, and now Temple it seems baseball is often at the top of the list to go. Cali and Towson got a reprieve through financial support, but it appears Temple is pretty far down in the ditch. We'll see.
I genuinely feel bad for the current & committed players to the Temple program. I wish them and Coach Wheeler only the best going forward.