re: UT could handle the SEC as good or better than LSU can............

I really wouldn't mind joining the SEC except for that vague general "feeling" about the conference. Rationally it is a great fit. It'd make for fun football, plenty of great baseball, and we could just as easily implode in basketball in the SEC as we could in the Big 12.

I was very resistant to the idea before, but there are not too many logical reasons not to join. As to whether we could handle the SEC, I'd feel the same as going anywhere else. The Big 12 South was always a tough division, even if the Big 12 it self wasn't that tough.