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04/03/2001 09:41 AM --------------------------- "Michael Gagliardi" <mikegag@msn.com< on 04/03/2001 09:18:30 AM To: <dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com, david_ricks@gsdm.com, tony.a.rogers@fritolay.com< cc: Subject: Fw: True Orange Fax/E-M ail #43 ----- Original Message ----- From:?TruOrange@aol.com Sent:?Monday, April 02, 2001 11:02 PM To:?TruOrange@aol.com; hramsey@intellimark-it.com Subject:?True Orange Fax/E-M ail #43 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 9, Fax/E-Mail #43, Monday, April 3, 2001 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone= =20 512-795-8536 Longhorns Will Wrap Up Spring Football Drills Wednesday The Longhorns worked out in shorts Monday, and coach Mack Brown said the tea= m=20 will practice Tuesday at? 4 p.m. and then scrimmage Wednesday, probably at 5= =20 p.m., to wrap up what he termed "our best spring? since we've been here." Brown said the Tuesday practice will be at the Denius Fields and the=20 Wednesday scrimmage will be at Royal Memorial Stadium. He said he would=20 announce a time for the scrimmage at Tuesday's practice. NCAA rules require that three of the 15 spring practices be in shorts, and=20 Brown said that was the reason the team practiced in shorts Monday. "We=20 practiced in shorts the first two days, and we had to get a third day in=20 shorts," he said. The Horns worked primarily on their passing game because it's hard to do muc= h=20 on the running game in shorts. QB Chris Simms continued to look very sharp,=20 and sophomore TEs Bo Scaife and Brock Edwards both made several outstanding=20 catches. Everyone knows about the Longhorns' fine WRs, but there won't be a=20 better pair of TEs in the Big 12 than Scaife and Edwards. There might not be= =20 a better pair in the country. Brown said the Longhorns will have more speed on defense this season than=20 they have had since he got here. "Everything we're doing is trying to get th= e=20 fastest guys on the field," he said, noting that former LB O. J. McClintock=20 is doing a good job of pass rushing at DE, and former DE Maurice Gordon is=20 doing the same at DT.=20 "In each case, those moves were made to increase our speed," he said. * * * * If you saved the class chart in my March 12 newsletter, take a look at the=20 players in each class and see how many top hands you see. I did that today=20 and I counted nine fine players in the sophomore class, plus three others wh= o=20 might be fine players, too. No other class has more than five, although the=20 12 redshirted freshmen might produce more than that. I'm not going to identify the guys who I think are really good in each class= =20 because then it would be obvious which starters I don't think are really=20 good. I try to avoid being overly critical of any of the kids,? so I would=20 suggest you look at the class chart, too, and see how you think the various=20 classes rank. One other important thing to note is that senior CB Quentin Jammer is an=20 outstanding player who is projected to be the first defensive back picked in= =20 the next NFL draft. But he has a very hard time covering either of the=20 Longhorns' pair of star sophomore wide receivers (Roy Williams and B. J.=20 Johnson) on a consistent basis. Opposing teams usually double cover Williams, which means Johnson and the=20 tight ends draw single coverage. That is going to make the Longhorns' passin= g=20 game more potent than ever this season. Scaife is regaining the form he showed last spring before injuring his knee=20 during the pre-season workouts. If he hadn't missed last season, I think the= =20 Longhorns would have gone 11-1. Obviously, he wouldn't have made that much=20 difference in the 63-14 loss to Oklahoma, but I think he would have made a=20 big difference in the narrow losses to Stanford and Oregon. The Longhorns=20 were building their passing offense around him before his injury, and he=20 would have helped buy time for the true freshmen wide receivers to begin=20 helping out. * * * * RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns are leading for a great wide receiver=20 prospect from Champaign, Illinois. He is Marquis Johnson, 6-3, 190, 4.4. UT=20 assistant Tim Brewster, an Illinois graduate, is handling the recruiting.=20 Johnson says he already has an offer from Illinois, but he says Texas leads=20 Illinois, FSU, Michigan and Notre Dame. He said he might come to a UT camp=20 this summer. Johnson is a national top 100 prospect heading into his senior=20 season. * * * * Texas basketball assistant coach Rob Lanier has decided not to pursue the=20 head coaching job at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater. He said he sees "great= =20 potential that exists for our basketball program here at Texas," and feels=20 "confident that is it in my best interest to continue assisting coach (Rick)= =20 Barnes in maing our program here at Texas one of the best in the country." * * * * My next e-mail/fax will be Tuesday, April? 3. * * * * The True Orange Fax Service includes? at? least? 99 fax/e-mails? a year and=20 costs $99 ($79 by E-Mail). The True Orange Newsletter includes? 26=20 newsletters and is published weekly during football season and twice monthly= =20 during most of the other months. It costs $45. Save by subscribing to both=20 for $130 (or $110 if you take the faxes via E-Mail? or $99 if you take the=20 faxes and newsletter? via E-Mail). Send check? to address at the top of page= .=20 I also? update my 900 number =96 1-900-288-8839 =96 frequently with recruiti= ng=20 news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com
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