Message-ID: <31620987.1075857337689.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:53:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com, bbutler2@enron.com Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #64 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, bbutler2@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 07/26/2000 07:52 AM --------------------------- "Michael Gagliardi" on 07/26/2000 07:38:13 AM To: DGagliardi@reliantenergy.com, BobandIt@lcc.net.com, David_Ricks@GSDM.com cc: Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #64 ---------------------- Forwarded by Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC on 07/26/2000 07:46 AM --------------------------- TruOrange@aol.com on 07/25/2000 09:17:52 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com cc: (bcc: Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC) Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #64 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #64, Tuesday, July 25, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Four Longhorn Substitutes Leaving Team; UT Will Sign at Least 22 Three Longhorn reserves - sophomore CB Kendrick Turner, sophomore LB Jamal Joyner and redshirt freshman DB Antonio Moore - have quit the football team and will transfer to other schools, and a fourth backup - redshirt freshman FB Jason Barron - will miss the 2000 season for academic reasons. Barron said he will work to improve his grades and return to the team, but I would be surprised if he comes back because he is far down on the fullback chart and the Longhorns probably will sign at least 22 players in February. With 80 players on scholarship and only 13 seniors, they will need to have some more players leave next year to stay within the NCAA's 85-scholarship limit. None of the departures came as a surprise and Turner was the only one of the quartet who would have seen any meaningful action this season if he had stayed. Joyner was on suspension. He was the last to leave of the four players who were suspended prior to the Cotton Bowl game. Brown wished all of the young men well, and gave the three who are transferring unconditional releases. * * * * Eric Hall, 6-3, 235, 4.5, the outstanding DE prospect from Clarksville, Tenn., told me today he is going to take his official visit to Texas the Sept. 9 weekend and will see the season-opening game against Louisiana-Lafayette. He said he strongly favors Texas, and the only other schools he is considering are Nebraska and Tennessee. "I see myself going to Texas," he said. "I was born in Texas (Fort Hood) and I really like the state." Another top out-of-state DE who is strongly considering Texas is Kaelen Jakes, 6-4, 265, 4.8 of Valencia, Cal. He lived in Texas for four years and said he is considering the Horns, along with USC, UCLA, Arizona and Nebraska. He said his team doesn't keep invidual stats, but estimated he had "between 15 and 18 sacks last season." He said he played DE, DT and NG for Valencia last year. * * * * DT Tommie Harris of Killen Ellison is the top DL in Texas this year and is one of the top players in the country. He says he favors Texas over Florida State and others. Harris has been working out in Houston with a personal trainer this summer. UT center signee Trey Bates works out with the same trainer. Stockar McDougle, a former Oklahoma Sooner OL who now is in the NFL, is Harris' cousin, and is paying for the personal trainer for Harris. * * * * Texas has 11 early commitments, including six offensive linemen. The OLs are Mike Garcia of Galena Park (who switched from A&M to Texas), Jonathan Scott of Dallas Carter, Abe Robinson of Houston Jersey Village, Roman Reeves of Livingston, Will Allen of Houston Cypress Falls and Alfio Randall of Blinn JC. Scott and Robinson are national top 100 players and Randall was a top 100 player at Houston Yates two years ago. The other pledges are QB/DB Kendal Briles of Frenship, MLB Yamil Lebron of Killeen Ellison, and DBs Cedric Griffin of San Antonio Holmes, Braden Johnson of Euless Trinity and Brian Carter of The Woodlands. Ten players who signed with Texas are slated to play in the annual North-South High School Football All-Star game at Rice Stadium next Tuesday at 7 p.m. Scheduled to play for the North are QBs Chance Mock of The Woodlands and Tony Jeffery of Klein Forest, WRs Roy Williams of Odessa Permian, B. J. Johnson of South Grand Prairie and Nathan Vasher of Texarkana and kicker Matt McFadden of Coppell. Scheduled to play for the South are OT Lionel Garr of Diboll, C Trey Bates of Fort Bend Elkins and DTs Sonny Davis of Austin Lanier and Marcel Moses of Texas City. Davis and Moses failed to qualify academically and are headed to the JC ranks. Johnson has a sprained ankle that will keep him out of the game. * * * * FOOTBALL NOTES: The Longhorn DBs are extremely impressed with Sloan Thomas and Tony Jeffery, who are two of the outstanding incoming freshman wide receiver prospects. They said Thomas is a big, physical receiver with great speed, and they say Jeffery is very hard to cover because he has such great moves and quickness. The players have been working out against each other during voluntary summer drills. * * * * WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECRUITING: CoCo Reed, a 5-11 forward from Houston Jersey Village, has committed to play for the Texas women. She averaged 19 points as a junior and averaged 23 points in AAU play this summer. She lives with 5-6 junior point guard Nina Norman, who will be one of the nation's top prospects next year. Reed also was recruited by Duke, LSU, Rutgers, Florida and Maryland, among others. The Longhorn women's top incoming freshmen - 6-1 Stacy Stephens of Winnsboro and 6-2 Annissa Hastings of San Antonio Sam Houston - were named to the AAU All-American Team Saturday at the conclusion of the National AAU Tournament in Clarksville, Tenn. * * * * 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