Don't forget the other guys

By Mike Gibson
Inside of the Edberg-Olson Hall Football Complex, Al Golden was talking about the 26 guys who just signed to become football players at Temple University.
It's a great class, perhaps the best of three good ones Golden brought to North Broad Street.
In the middle of it all, Golden took time to look outside.
"I'm looking right now and there's 70-75 guys out there right now," he said. "This is their day off."
The calendar says spring ball begins in March.
Reality said it began the Monday after the Western Michigan game.
Go to the E-O on any day and you'll see plenty of Owls working out on their own.
The media came to learn about the new class, but mostly what they saw was the culture changing outside.
Joe Jones is part of that culture. He's a three-star running back who's rehabbing an injury.
Don't count him out of the competition for starting running back.
"Joey Jones is someone everyone in this room has a lot of respect for," Golden said. "He's a great kid. He's done a great job in the classroom. He wants to be here. You can't say enough about that."
Golden is slowly molding his team with 18 high school team captains among the current 26 on top of the 20-plus Golden signed in the first two classes.
"I really say this is our second recruiting class," Golden said. "It's hard to say that we had a first recruiting class. We had six weeks."
It's obvious that Golden is building a house of brick. It's becoming so nice he might want to live in it awhile once it's done.
"I am here," he said, when asked about speculation about him. "My heart's here. My family's here. This is where I want to be. Let's not put the carraige before the horse here. We won four games. Four and a half.
"I voted with my feet. What do you say to that?"
So, too, did the 70-75 guys practicing right outside.
This might have been a day to discuss the new guys but core guys were right outside on that field.
Don't forget those guys, too.