Message-ID: <27365779.1075857339070.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 00:54:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #84 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\Discussion threads X-Origin: Dean-C X-FileName: cdean.nsf ---------------------- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 09/07/2000 07:54 AM --------------------------- "Michael Gagliardi" on 09/07/2000 07:31:11 AM To: DGagliardi@reliantenergy.com, David_Ricks@GSDM.com, Tony.A.Rogers@fritolay.com cc: Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #84 ---------------------- Forwarded by Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC on 09/07/2000 07:39 AM --------------------------- TruOrange@aol.com on 09/06/2000 10:01:49 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com cc: (bcc: Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC) Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #84 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #84, Wednesday, September 6, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Brown Says No True Freshman Likely to Start, But Several Will Play Early Coach Mack Brown put the Longhorns through a tough 90-minute practice Wednesday in the team's final full-scale workout before Saturday's 11:30 a.m. opening game with Louisiana-Lafayette in Royal Memorial Stadium. In answer to a question, he said, "We are not likely to start a (true) freshman, but several of them will get into the game pretty quickly." WRs Roy Williams and B. J. Johnson, DE Kalen Thornton, DT Stevie Lee and CB Nathan Vasher are the freshmen who are most likely to see quick action. Brown said redshirt freshman Tillman Holloway probably will start at left guard, but he said Derrick Dockery, who had been starting before missing some practice because of a large cyst, will play a lot, too. Defensive coordinator Carl Reese said sophomore DE Cole Pittman "has been playing really well. If he keeps playing like he has, we'll probably move him over to the other end as the starter and have Jermain Anderson be a swing guy who can substitute at either end. Pittman has been backing up Cory Redding at right end. He might start at right end Saturday because Redding also has missed some practice with a knee sprain. But Reese said Redding and Pittman "are my two best ends right now, so I might move Pittman. I'm still not happy with the end play, but we'll keep working on it." Texas has nine defensive starters back, but the two regulars who graduated were DEs Aaron Hmphrey and Cedric Woodard. Brown said he is pleased with the team leadership on defense, and he said the offense "seems to be developing more leadership." He also said he is pleased with the way the team has worked in the record heat in Austin (110 on Monday and 112 on Tuesday, the two hottest days on record). "They have worked really hard," he said. "We've cut some of the workouts a little short because of the heat, but they are in fine shape." It was a little cooler in Austin Wednesday, with the high around 100, and it is supposed to be in the mid-to-low 90s at kickoff time Saturday. Brown also said the team is healthy with TE Bo Scaife and WR Jamel Thompson the only players expected to miss the game. Scaife is out for the season after undergoing knee surgery in late August, and Thompson will miss most or all of the season after undergoing knee surgery following spring practice. Brown won't name his QB. He says he doesn't even know yet. Most observers think it will be Chris Simms, but I think it's 50-50 between Simms and Major Applewhite. * * * * RECRUITING NOTES: I'm going to Houston Friday to see Galena Park North Shore's game with Alief Hastings. North Shore has the state's top TE, James Moses, and one of the top LBs, Jonathan Jackson. Both are strongly considering Texas. I usually go to half of one game and then go to half of another game, but with that 11:30 a.m. UT kickoff Saturday morning, I'll probably just watch half of that game, then head back to Austin. I saw North Shore play last year, but I want to see how Moses and Jackson look as seniors. I'll report on it in my next newsletter. . . The state's top safety, Dewayne Brandon of Temple, won't get much sleep Friday night either. His team is going to Brownwood for a game Friday night. He's going to get home about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, then says he will get up in time to make it to Austin to the Texas game. "I want to see the Longhorns play," he said. Asked what schools he is considering, he said, "Texas, Florida State, Nebraska, Michigan and Colorado are the main ones." . . . The state's top DT, Tommie Harris of Killeen Ellison, also plans to come to the game, and DE Eric Hall of Clarksville, Tenn., is coming Saturday for his official visit. * * * * BASEBALL RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorn baseball coaches already have commitments from four top baseball players. They are catcher Jack Sweeney, 6-2, 200, of powerhouse Houston Bellaire and three hard-throwing right-handed pitchers - Joey Guajardo, 6-0, 190, who threw three no-hitters as a junior at Round Rock, and Austin Westlake aces Chaz Taylor, 6-3, 180, and, Huston Street, 5-11, 180. Street, who was 6-1, with a 1.27 ERA last season, is the son of former UT football and baseball star James Street. Taylor pitched a two-hitter this summer against the Dallas Mustangs, a powerful team that included seven college players or signees, including Jason Stokes of Coppell. He struck Stokes out twice in that game. Stokes, a UT signee, signed a $2 million pro contract last week. Sweeney started 10 games as a freshman at Bellaire and has been a starter ever since. He is the best defensive catcher in the country and also wields a powerful bat. * * * * 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. Save by subscribing to both for $130 (or $110 if you take the faxes via E-Mail or $99 if you take the faxes and newsletter via E-Mail). Send check to address at the top of page. I also update my 900 number - 1-900-288-8839 - frequently with recruiting news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com