Excitement, and realism, about 2012 Temple football  Second-year
coach Steve Addazio is excited about the progress his program
has made. Second-year coach Steve Addazio is excited about the
progress his program has made. (DAVID MAIALETTI / STAFF
PHOTOGRAPHER) Posted: August 31, 2012  AS LONG AS folks insist
on keeping score, it's always about the next game. But for
Temple football, it's not necessarily about this season. The
Owls already have won just by getting back into the Big East,
even if it will soon look more like Conference USA. Still, what
they have going for them now is incalcuably better than anything
the Mid-American Conference could offer, in every way
imaginable. So whatever this season produces, they don't figure
to ever be worried about their very future again.  That doesn't
mean they're necessarily going to win a conference title any
time soon. Doesn't mean they won't, either. They never got to a
MAC title game, or even beat a MAC team that finished with a
winning record. Yet they did win 26