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As someone else pointed out, the football program of the Pinkel era would walk into that conference a middle of the road team. Build from there.
Personally I think it would be more interesting to be a middle of the road team in the SEC, watching your team week to week playing games in storied places against big teams. It would be fun. A road game against LSU or Georgia would be fun to watch. Florida or Auburn coming to Columbia would be fun. It would give an interesting conference schedule every year. The conference slate of the Big 12 is not that interesting, sorry to say.
And are there many fun places to go? Austin for sure, but anyplace else? Lubbock? Waco? Ames, Iowa? Manhattan? Not that Columbia is great but still... Zzz.
I think being average in the SEC would be fun to watch right away, with a view to the future that looks good.
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