Message-ID: <1785509.1075848298462.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:51:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliant.com To: chay@reliant.com, clint.dean@enron.com Subject: Fw: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #48 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: dgagliardi@reliant.com X-To: chay@reliant.com, clint.dean@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Clint_Dean_Nov2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: DEAN-C X-FileName: cdean.nsf ----- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 04/19/01 11:50 AM ----- "Michael Gagliardi" To: , david_ricks@gsdm.com, cc: Subject: Fw: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #48 04/19/01 09:12 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: TruOrange@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:39 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com; hramsey@intellimark-it.com Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #48 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 9, Fax/E-Mail #48, Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone= =20 512-795-8536 Top UT Basketball Assistant Gets Head Job at Siena Rob Lanier, 32, the Longhorns' top assistant basketball coach and lead=20 recruiter for the last two years, was named head coach at Siena College in=20 Loudonville, N.Y., Wednesday. UT head coach Rick Barnes was out of town on a recruiting trip, but he issue= d=20 a statement praising Lanier and saying he is as qualified to be a head coach= =20 as any assistant coach he has known. Barnes gave no indication when he will name a new assistant. Six of his=20 former assistants have become college head coaches and that is because he=20 always hires a bright, young assistant on the way up who also happens to be=20 an outstanding recruiter. He only has them for a year or two, but they are=20 very productive during that time, and then he goes out and finds another=20 bright, young one to take the departed guy's place. Lanier recruited several outstanding prospects for the Longhorns, including=20 most of last year's top freshmen and incoming point guard recruit T. J. Ford= . * * * * QUAN COSBY UPDATE: I talked to Albert Satchell tonight. He is the guardian o= f=20 heralded UT recruit Quan Cosby. He told me that Quan Cosby told a TV reporte= r=20 he probably would give up football if he is one of the first 10 players=20 chosen in the major league draft. Some callers have told me today that the T= V=20 reporter quoted Cosby as saying he would choose baseball if he is drafted in= =20 the first 10 rounds. I didn't hear the TV report, but there is a big=20 difference in being one of the first 10 players drafted and being drafted in= =20 the first 10 rounds. With 30 major league teams, 300 players will be chosen=20 in the first 10 rounds. Anyway, after talking to Satchell, my blood pressure= =20 has returned to normal because Cosby, while he is a great athlete and=20 undoubtedly is an outstanding baseball player, will not be one of the first=20 10 players drafted. He probably will be one of the first 300. The biggest=20 difference in being one of the first 10 guys drafted and being the 300th guy= =20 drafted is about $2 million or $3 million. * * * * I've had some calls today saying there are reports on some internet sites=20 that redshirt freshman LB Rashad Thomas has left the team. He was out workin= g=20 out with the rest of them (voluntarily, of course) yesterday, so unless he=20 quit today, he's still a Longhorn. * * * * FOOTBALL RECRUITING NOTES: L'Tydrick Riley of Crockett is one of the state's= =20 top junior recruits. he plays QB at Crockett, but projects as a WR in=20 college. He's big, fast, athletic and he's an Aggie lean, primarily because=20 his uncle, Claude Riley, also from Crockett, played basketball at A&M,=20 probably about 20 years ago. But young Riley says he plans to attend camps a= t=20 UT and A&M this summer. With our facilities and coaching staff and city,=20 compared to the Aggies' facilities and coaching staff and city, I like our=20 chances. . . Texas probably will award about 20 to 22 scholarships in=20 February and as many as six or seven of them could be filled by defensive=20 linemen. After years of skimpy crops of defensive linemen, there are a lot o= f=20 top juniors around and many of them really like the Longhorns. DTs Lyle=20 Sendlein of Scottsdale Chaparral and Kasey Studdard of Highlands Ranch,=20 Colo., are sons of former Longhorn stars. DE Chase Pittman of Shreveport=20 Evangel is the brother of Cole Pittman, the popular young Longhorn DT who wa= s=20 killed in a traffic accident about six weeks ago in a tragedy that shook th= e=20 UT campus. I like our chances will all three of these fine out-of-state=20 prospects. The Longhorns also are in strong contention for two top DTs in=20 Texas (Rodrique Wright of Alief Hastings and Earl Anderson of San Marcos) an= d=20 also for two top DEs (Travis Leitko of The Woodlands and Larry Dibbles of=20 Lancaster). They also are in the race for several other top prospects in the= =20 defensive line, so signs point to UT having a great class of defensive=20 linemen to go along with the great class of offensive linemen who are coming= =20 in as freshman this year. . . The Longhorns' first summer camp will begin on= =20 June 4, which is just a little more than six weeks away. That's when coach=20 Mack Brown and his assistants usually start raking in top commitments, and=20 they are poised to do it again because many of the top players like Texas=20 enough to at least consider committing early. Just remember, Jonathan Scott=20 did it in early June last year. * * * * TRACK RECRUITING NOTE: Sage Thames of Wolfforth Frenship, the nation's top=20 high school pole vaulter, has signed with Texas. Thames, already a two-team=20 state Class 4A champion, has vaulted 17-7, which is the seventh highest vaul= t=20 in national high school history. * * * * My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant. * * * * 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 =E2=80=93 1-900-288-8839 =E2=80=93 frequently w= ith recruiting=20 news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com