BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – SEC Commissioner Mike Slive sounded confident Monday that Texas A&M will join the conference in 2012 and indicated the SEC could play with 13 teams next season. “When Texas A&M joins our conference, we don't have immediate plans for a 14th member,” Slive said in statements released Monday evening on the SEC web site. “We aren't thinking in terms of numbers. We think about the strength of the SEC and the attractiveness of Texas A&M as an institution.” [Read More]