Owls trade one (St. Joe) Prep quarterback for another

...Congratulations to the 2009 Atlantic 10 champion Temple basketball Owls and we expect no less than a MAC championship for the 2009 Temple football Owls...







Highlights of Aaron Haas from the 2008 football season in the beautiful tree-lined setting of Western Massachusetts.
By Mike Gibson
When I was in high school, I watched someone named Bobby Haas ring up 51 points on Archbishop Ryan's basketball team.
I wrote in the Raiderscope, the school paper, that "Frankie Boyle held Bobby Haas to 51 points" in a 59-44 Bishop McDevitt win.

"It goes to show how many quality players inhabit the Prep's program that a quarterback who looks this good (touch, accuracy, long-ball capability) had to wait so long to get onto the field." _ Ted Silary
Philadelphia high school guru after Haas' first game as quarterback

I don't know if Aaron Haas is any relation to Bobby Haas (probably not), but I've never seen a bad performance by a Haas on either a basketball court or a football field.
And I've had the pleasure of seeing Aaron Haas play a few times, who was an All-Catholic at St. Joseph's Prep.
You can judge for yourself by the above video, but I was struck by the number of times his post-grad (Mass.) offensive coordinator called upon him to run to his left and make a throw.
Since he's right-handed, that's an awkward and unnatural throw, but Haas executed it well.
Why not have the kid run right and throw right, a more fluid and easy toss?
Just a thought for Matt Rhule to consider.
He's a good quarterback who has flown under the radar for a couple of years and will now improve Temple's somewhat bleak picture (at least from a depth standpoint) at quarterback as a preferred walk-on.
How good?
Well, good enough to beat out one-time Temple verbal Mark Giubilato for the St. Joseph's Prep starting quarterback job two years ago. When you compare 21 touchdown passes for Haas in the same offense against just seven for Giubilato, that's a pretty good tradeoff.
Effectively, the Owls have traded one St. Joe Prep quarterback for another.
Knowing that Giubilato is very, very good that makes me feel a lot more comfortable about the Owls going into 2009.
Whether they get the best of the deal remains to be seen but they've done no worse than provide 25 percent more depth at the most important position on the field and that was a priority since Feb. 4.