Interesting Temple article on their recruiting
http://temple-news.com/sports/2013/04/16/cranney-a-new-take-on-recruiting-after-jordan-decision/
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/index?topId=9160495 (Made the front page of Recruiting Nation).
Apologies if these have already been posted.
A Philadelphia native hasn’t committed to play men’s basketball at Temple since Scootie Randall joined the team in 2008.
Sounds like our fans talking about NYC players.
Yea, the idea that our posters don't bad mouth nyc recruits after they sign elsewhere is laughable.
It happens every. single. time.
Sure it happens, but nowhere near the level of Philly fans. I mean they are literally tweeting an 18 yr old kid tearing him apart. We don't do that with Lawrence or McCullough. Philly is the trashiest sports city and always has been.
I'm actually going to agree with Joe3, to some extent. Yes, we b!tch everytime we lose a local recruit to another school, but the Temple fans have been screaming from the rooftops over Jordan's decision for days. From all of the boards and comment threads I've read, the Temple fans have been relentless in trashing Jordan, Lavin & STJ over his decision. When we lost J Lawrence, sure, we vented, but not to the same extent the Temple fans have been doing over Jordan, at least from what I have read.
Because we don't have enough fans that care and/or are social media savvy 
Actually, just the other day, SJ's twitter page posted something about having the most active twitter base out of any Big East school. So that theory is not true at least as far as twitter goes. I remember being surprised, but there was some kind of map showing the traffic to prove it. Being totally objective, I haven't seen any insulting posts towards either recent NYC recruit we just recently lost out on. Jordan has gone so far as to tweet stuff like "Ok try putting salt on my name like a slug", "Most of you Temple fans aren't even from Philly anyway!", etc. It's not just their fans either...it's the Philly media including bloggers and journalists for local papers that tore him apart. Sorry, but that does not happen with our base.
My point Joseph is our fans don't Twitter stalk. And I'm happy we don't. Early on me and Dave were quick to point out that in many cases it 'could' be interpreted as violations. Plus the fact that it just looks downright disgusting as we're seeing with Rysheed.
Just because we have 10k Twitter fans and Gtown and Marquette have 8k and Nova has 5k while your beloved Creighton has 6k, that really means squat as we know from our attendance and all around interest. Our athletic dept was one of the first on Twitter and very aggressive in that field and props to them for it.
We have a very strong twitter following and that's one of the top ways to market this day in age. It will help get the SJ brand name out there and hopefully trending in NY a lot this coming season. I think it just speaks to the fact that there are many SJ fans out there, but they don't want to come out unless the team proves it has truly turned a corner and ready to consistently make the tourney again. The base exists, now the team has to win to bring them out. Pretty damn impressive to have a bigger twitter base than other teams with much more recent success than us. I can only imagine if we made the Elite 8 or something how crazy our twitter footprint would be.
As for Rysheed, even his mother was concerned about all the hate. There have also been threats I heard. As I said, Philly has the reputation of a trashy sports city for a reason. Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, Temple...doesn't matter. They were never known as classy. I think Rysheed will love the NY spotlight and all the love he's getting. By the way he just dropped 45 pts in a game earlier today. The kid is a man child.