Message-ID: <3409097.1075857324795.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:19:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: FW: True Orange Fax/E-Mail 55 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 06/21/2000 04:19 PM --------------------------- Tracy Ralston on 06/21/2000 11:59:26 AM To: wdr3@swbell.net cc: Subject: FW: True Orange Fax/E-Mail 55 -----Original Message----- From: TruOrange@aol.com [mailto:TruOrange@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:46 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail 55 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #55, Tuesday, June 20, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Sonny Davis Awaiting Test Score; Barnum Watch Ongoing DT Sonny Davis is amazed by all the internet speculation that he is headed for junior college, and he says it isn't necessarily so. "I haven't got my test score back yet," he said Tuesday from California, where he is training with the Texas All-Star team that will meet the California All-Stars Saturday night. If he makes a qualifying score, Davis said he will be in a Longhorn uniform this fall. If he doesnt, well, that's why he signed a letter of intent with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, a Mississippi junior college. "That's my backup plan," Davis said. "I don't know yet what I am going to do." Davis has enough core courses to qualify and just needs a qualifying test score. * * * * Greg Barnum, the Killeen Ellison center who was being touted as an All-America prospect at Tennessee this season before quitting the team, says he probably will enroll at Texas or Stephen F. Austin in September to continue his football career. Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer has refused to release Barnum to Texas, but has said he will release him to Stephen F. Austin. Without a release, Barnum would have to pay his own way for a year if he enrolls at Texas. I'd like to see somebody challenge a coach's right to refuse to release a kid. Scholarships are renewable now on a year-to-year basis, so Fulmer or any other coach can get rid of a player by simply refusing to renew his scholarship. If a school can fire a player, then it's only fair that a player be able to fire the school. I know it's an NCAA rule, but there is a thing called the U. S. Constitution that takes precedence over NCAA rules. * * * * Texas has two great DTs in All-America Casey Hampton and Shaun Rogers, but there is one at Blinn JC who might be just as good. He is Paul Broussard, formerly of La Porte, which is Shaun Rogers' home town, too. Broussard was a great DT as a sophomore at La Porte when he weighed about 280, but he ballooned up to well over 300 pounds as a junior and senior and was not as dominating. He is about 6-4 and was back in the 290-pound range last year as a freshman at Blinn, and he was outstanding. He's working in Austin this summer. If his academics are in order, let's hope Alfio Randall, the big OT at Blinn who plans to enroll at UT next January, can talk Broussard into coming along with him. * * * * RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns have apparently stepped up their recruiting of running backs. In addition to offering Anthony Johnson of Jefferson last week, the UT coaches are now actively recruiting Cedric Benson of Midland Lee, who is on the cover of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, and Jabari Davis of Tucker, Ga.. . . Six Longhorn recruits were scheduled to play in the All-Star game in California Saturday night, but WR B. J. Johnson of South Grand Prairie is nursing a sprained ankle and had to withdraw. In addition to Sonny Davis, the other future Longhorns are WRs Roy Williams of Odessa Permian and Sloan Thomas of Klein, DE Kalen Thornton of Dallas St. Mark's and center Jason Glynn of Richardson Berkner. That game is supposed to kick off at about 9 p.m. Texas time and is supposed to be televised by Fox in most areas of Texas. * * * * FOOTBALL NOTES: Another internet rumor that has no substance, but has great interest for Longhorns and Red Raiders is the one that has former Tech coach Spike Dykes going to work for Texas. Since Spike is still under contract with the Red Raiders, it would cost him well into six figures to go to work for the Longhorns. It might happen down the road, but not anytime soon. I normally don't comment on internet rumors, but I have had so many queries about Sonny Davis and Spike Dykes that I just decided to give the facts to all of you. . . Sophomore DE Adam McConathy, who weighed about 230 last season, is up to 252 pounds and hasn't lost any of his speed. He is battling Jermain Anderson and Maurice Gordon for the starting job at right end. All three are outstanding pass rushers, and the coaches want them to get a little bigger so they can do a better job against the run. . . If Sonny Davis does wind up going to a junior college, freshman Stevie Lee and redshirt freshman Marcus Tubbs will back up Hampton and Rogers at DT this year and they will be the guys to beat for the starting jobs in 2001. Barring an injury, I don't think anyone will beat out Stevie Lee. * * * * My next fax will be whenever events warrant. * * * * The True Orange Fax Service includes at least 99 faxes a year and costs $99 ($79 by E-Mail). The True Orange Newsletter includes 26 newsletters and is published weekly during football season and twice monthly during most of the other months. It costs $45. 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