TI's purchasing Luminary Micro never has made a whole lot of sense to me. It's not like TI didn't have the expertise to license the ARM core and program it themselves. I think that they are more focused on the power MOSFETs which is probably the largest part of the real cost of the Jaguar controller, rather than the microcontroller and associated programming.
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/gen...ontentId=53265
That being said, they do make a big deal about the serial enabled nature of the Black Jag in the literature developed specifically for FIRST. I think that I'll buy a couple and the DB-9 to RJ11's and have one of my team members investigate the interface just on a hunch.
Thanks for everyone's input.