Message-ID: <221809.1075857326960.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 01:12:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #83 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com X-To: clint.dean@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Clint_Dean_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Dean-C X-FileName: cdean.nsf ---------------------- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 09/05/2000 08:12 AM --------------------------- "Michael Gagliardi" on 09/05/2000 07:25:38 AM To: DGagliardi@reliantenergy.com, David_Ricks@GSDM.com cc: Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #83 ---------------------- Forwarded by Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC on 09/05/2000 07:35 AM --------------------------- TruOrange@aol.com on 09/04/2000 10:37:06 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com cc: (bcc: Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC) Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #83 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #83, Monday, September 4, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 UT Favored by 45; Brown Says He'll Name QB Just Before Kickoff The Longhorns are 45-point favorites over Louisiana-Lafayette for Saturday's 11:30 a.m. season opener in Austin. For those of you who don't live in Austin and who plan to come to the game, this is the hottest summer I have seen in Austin, with temperatures hitting 105, 106 and 107 with disturbing regularity, so I would advise you to wear something cool and arrange to have plenty of liquids to drink. The team returned to practice Monday after getting three days off to recuperate from 2-a-days, and freshman WR Roy Williams made a spectacular catch of a ball that looked like it was over everyone. Coach Mack Brown said he won't name a starting quarterback publicly until the game starts, and won't even break the news to Major Applewhite and Chris Simms, the two quarterbacks who are competing for the starting job, until Saturday morning. "We want to watch them in practice all week," Brown said. He also said both QBs are working hard and competing for the starting job. "We have told our team we have two starters," Brown said. "We are just happy they are both really good. In making these decisions, we will try to take care of both of them and do what is best for the team." All of the injured starters who missed some time last week were back at practice Monday, but they didn't run with the first team. Brown said, "as of today," redshirt freshman Tillman Holloway would start at left guard because Derrick Dockery missed most of last week, sophomore Cole Pittman would start ahead of Cory Redding at DE because Redding was injured last week, and Roderick Babers, who is locked in a battle with Ervis Hill, at CB, would get the nod because Hill missed some workouts with an injury. But the game isn't today, and Brown said the players who were hurt will have an opportunity this week to regain their starting jobs. Brown also said he hasn't decided whether to start any true freshmen, and said he probably won't make a final decision on that until close to game time, too, "because sometimes you tell a freshman he is going to start, and he starts hyperventilating." Whether or not they start, freshman WRs Williams and B. J. Johnson will play early and often. They are the most impressive freshmen wide receivers I have seen at Texas. Mike Adams and Lovell Pinkney were a very good pair, but Williams and Johnson look better, and Sloan Thomas and Tony Jeffery, the other two freshmen WRs, aren't too far behind. Defensive coordinator Carl Reese also says freshman CB Nathan Vasher and freshman DE Kalen Thornton will play Saturday. RECRUITING NOTES: Greg Barnum, the center from Killeen Ellison who left Tennesse and considered transferring to Texas, enrolled at Stephen F. Austin and says he plans to stay there for the remainder of his career. . . DE Eric Hall of Clarksville, Tenn., says he is still planning to take his official visit to Texas this weekend, and super DT Tommie Harris of Killeen Ellison heads the list of high school stars who plan to come to the UT game on unofficial visits. . . Shreveport Evangel's 60-game winning streak ended Saturday when Marrero Shaw took a 22-19 victory. Evangel QB Brett Rawls, 6-5, 200, completed 19 of 37 passes for 238 yards and three touchdowns in a losing effort. Rawls and Matt Nordgren, 6-5, 225, of Dallas Bishop Lynch, are UT's top QB targets this recruiting season. BASKETBALL RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorn women got a commitment Monday from the state's top prospect, Heather Schrieber, a 6-2 forward from Windthrost, a small town near Wichita Falls. Schrieber, who had offers from top schools all over the country after a great summer season in AAU ball, had narrowed her choices to Texas and Iowa State, and she visited the Cyclones last weekend, then came home and called the Texas coaches to say she wants to play for the Longhorns. "I just really like Texas," she said. Joel Nelson of Flower Mound, who coached her in AAU play this summer, said, "Heather is a great player. She can bring the ball down court, she hit 46% of her three-pointers for us and she was the best player on an AAU team that finished fourth in the country. She could play guard, forward or center at the college level and be very good at any of those positions. I know teams like Texas Tech, Arkansas, Iowa State and several others wanted her, too. I think she's the best player in the state." He said she averaged 18 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists in a 60-game AAU season against top players from 4A and 5A schools. 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