The Temple Owls’ game promo graphics are on so many drugs, and now I am, too

Hello, please look at this football game promo artwork being made by Temple University.

Against the Houston Cougars, whose mascot is named Shasta, hence the Shasta Cola in the bottom right corner:

Against the UMass Minutemen:

Against local rival Villanova, which has a campus sculpture nicknamed “The Oreo:”

It’s very good artwork.

Temple could make really slick, 2K-looking, Recruiting Twitter Edit graphics like every other college with an athletic department does, or it could be different. And if you’re gonna be a little bit different, you might as well be REAL different.

New head coach Geoff Collins first made his name nationally as an assistant at Mississippi State, where he dropped recruiting bombs such as:

We talked to MSU about it:

“What’s the important thing? That a kid got 100 letters in one day, or that he opened one?” head coach Dan Mullen asks.

“You’ve got to think of the stacks of mail that these kids are getting,” Mullen says. “Even if a kid gets 10 letters from us, that probably means he’s being recruited by 50 schools. Well that’s 500, and we’re doing that once a week; that means he’s probably getting 500 letters a week. What makes him want to open it?”

Consider Lee Davis, Mississippi State’s staff recruiting specialist, the art dealer for Collins’ brilliance and one of the first to inform the artist of his newfound fame.

“He came to me and said, ‘Oh gosh, this is on the internet.’ And well, any publicity is good publicity, right? He said, ‘The message is short, sweet and to the point, so the only thing I would change is my handwriting. And honestly, that kid really is a baller.’”

People love them, especially because they enable jokes and other exclamations.

Da share z0ne is probably the best comp for what Temple’s attempting here, visually.

Because Temple’s campus has many squirrels.

Same.

Same.