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How Rutgers, Temple coaches manage the impossible in cutthroat college football

Maybe Rutgers football coach Chris Ash and his Temple counterpart Matt Rhule subscribe to the theory of “Keep Your Friends Close and Keep Your Enemies Closer.”

How else do you explain the teamwork between the two natural geographic recruiting rivals that led to Ash speaking at Temple’s coaches clinic in April and Rhule and his staff of assistants working at the Rutgers Football Tri-State Showcase camp last week?

“In those living rooms in December in January it might not always be friendly – and that’s for all schools,” Rhule said.

In 2016, @RFootball & @Temple_FB had many crossover recruits.