re: How would Texas fare as an SEC team

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What did Mack do with Muschamp?

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Coach in waiting ring a bell. He knew he was never going anywhere

What's the excuse for major

I was at that game. It's the only time I've been to Neyland.

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What's the excuse for major

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Excuse for Major? Maybe you're referring to the fact that he is not the sole OC? Honestly, because Harsin has been more accomplished. Major will have a big part in the future of the program and he is a big contributor to the offense now..not to mention killing it on the recruiting trail. If Major felt he was getting shafted, I don't think he would be here. Mack knows his value as both Major and Akina were asked to be left off limits as Muschamp was filling out his asst. coaches at UF.

Saban had a short leash on Major as well while at Bama...he was not the sole OC as Pendry had a big hand in the offense.

It depends on who they have as coach.

Right now, with Mack Brown? They'd fare pretty poorly. Mack's on his way out, in Bobby Bowden-lite style. The guy is a GM, not a HC. Now, that's been good and bad for them, because he is a good Pitch Man, and there may not be a better one in the game. The good: the streak of 10-win+ seasons they had. The bad? Only 2 conference championships! Mack is a used-car salesman. He can rake in the recruits, but he can't evaluate talent or coach kids up. Everything is left up to the assistants and he's a miserable gameday coach.

Now if they had a fire-breather like Patrino, Saban, Meyer... watch out. The only school that is comparable in terms of being a national brand, media darling, insanely wealthy, and located in one of the very top states for talent (which it can also dominate in recruiting) is USC. 'Bama at least has to compete with Auburn in a much smaller state. Texas is the only school west of the Mississippi with an on-campus stadium that has a capacity >100,000. They already get their pick of kids, even in bad years, in a state with 25,674,681 people. Their problem with winning, right now, is that they have a GM who can't identify which kids to take, who has a staff that has failed to coach-up the kids they do take and also that they have no real college HC to take charge of games and make smart in-game tactical decisions.

If they put together their natural advantages with a steel-eyed missle man at the helm, they'd BE Bama, 90's Nebraska or 80's Miami.

That said, I don't ever see them in the SEC. You have to live amongst them and be friends and family with them to understand the mentality. They see themselves as the natural heirs to the universe. God's own chosen. They have a major, major deep-down ingrained abhorrance for being in a situation they don't control or party to an agreement they haven't dictated. They know full well their attitude is what it is, they admit it. They'll largely acknowledge that the primary reason they LIKE the Big XII as is now is ISN'T becuase it's an easier path to a natty - they like it, primarily, just becuase it's theirs - they control it.

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Yeah that's why I left them off. I could've included Auburn, too. The point was to humiliate Texas but those are traditionally great programs.

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I was trying to take up for Texas.

I just assumed people would laugh at Tennessee and rip on the Big 10. Can't believe I forgot Auburn.

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Lets assume SEC West.

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Not very well under Brown but Texas has as many resources as anyone. They would make the necessary changes to go toe to toe with anyone in the West. It would never happen though. It would cost them too much money.

To answer the question posed, not unless the SEC wants to give them thier very own sports channel, radio station, "Texas size" box of cry'n tissue and a larger portion of the earnings every year than other SEC teams. Other than that, yeh they'd be ok. Texas... Ya'll got what ya wanted now live with it.

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They would have definitely out-performed a&m. There is no doubt about that.

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Hence, our hesitance to blindly follow them into any conference they chose (like the Pac12). Breaking away from the same conference as texas could be one of the best moves long term for A&M.