Message-ID: <29444164.1075857354823.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:53:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #100 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\Info X-Origin: Dean-C X-FileName: cdean.nsf ---------------------- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 10/24/2000 07:53 AM --------------------------- mggagliardi@duke-energy.com on 10/24/2000 07:27:09 AM To: DGagliardi@reliantenergy.com, David_Ricks@GSDM.com, Tony.A.Rogers@fritolay.com cc: Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #100 ---------------------- Forwarded by Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC on 10/24/2000 07:39 AM --------------------------- TruOrange@aol.com on 10/23/2000 08:09:21 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com cc: Subject: True Orange Fax/E-Mail #100 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #100, Monday, October 23, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Brown Says Injuries Piling Up, UT-Tech on Fox TV at 6 p.m. The Longhorns are a 41-point favorite over Baylor in their 11:30 a.m. Saturday game in Austin. It will be televised by Fox Syndication. Coach Mack Brown said the Longhorns' injuries are piling up at certain positions and he said some players will be cross-trained to improve the depth at those positions. Sophomore TE Bo Scaife, the projected starter, suffered a season-ending knee injury during pre-season practice, and junior TE Mike Jones took a lick on the knee against Missouri that will keep him out of action indefinitely. That leaves true freshman Brock Edwards and walk-on Cullen Loeffler as the only able-bodied tight ends on the team. Brown said Edwards will start Saturday, and he said FB Chad Stephens, a former TE, will be cross-trained so he can fill in at both positions. TB Ivan Williams also will be cross-trained at fullback, he said. He also said OT Robbie Doane has been moved to guard because Antwan Kirk-Hughes' shoulder injury is limiting his playing time. He said the Longhorns had to play starting OTs Leonard Davis and Mike Williams late in the Missouri game "because they were the only healthy tackles we had." He also said redshirt freshman OG Tillman Holloway "played his best game Saturday. He played 53 snaps and did a good job." Brown said DT's Shaun Rogers (ankle) and Marcus Tubbs (shoulder) also are ailing, and he said he hopes both of them can play Saturday. He said freshman Adam Doiron might have to give up his redshirt year unless both of them are able to play. On the plus side, Brown said QB Major Applewhite is getting better each week. "He came into this year with a hurt knee and he didn't have a lot of confidence in the knee," Brown said, "but he looked like the old Major (against Missouri) for the first time" since he was injured in the Cotton Bowl game against Arkansas. Brown also said freshman WR Sloan Thomas, who caught two touchdown passes Saturday in his first extended action, "is going to be a really good player. He's been making plays like that in practice, so we decided to play him more." Brown said redshirt freshman WR Artie Ellis is out with a sore shin and he doesn't know when he will return. Ellis also was hampered during his redshirt year with a stress fracture in his shin, and it isn't good news that the same shin is sore again. Asked how he can get his team ready to play a Baylor team that has been shut out in its last three games, Brown said, "We need to worry more about us than our opponents. We just need to be a better football team. We have to get ourselves ready, and this is a team that hasn't always done that." The Longhorns can beat Baylor even if they aren't fired up, but the road gets much tougher the following two weeks with road trips to Texas Tech and Kansas. Fox TV has picked the Texas-Texas Tech game for its 6 p.m. national telecast on Nov. 4. * * * * FOOTBALL RECRUITING NOTES: Super DT Tommie Harris of Killeen Ellison said he came to the Missouri game Saturday, but got there late and didn't get to visit with the other recruits. Harris said he had a good time and said Texas remains one of his top choices. . . Fullback James Buchanon of Sarasota, Fla., says he will announce his college choice Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. He has been considering FSU, Texas and Boston College, but he took a visit to FSU last weekend and said he had a great time, so the Seminoles think they have him. * * * * BASKETBALL RECRUITING NOTES: Two walk-ons, including a former scholarship player at North Texas State, have been added to the UT basketball team, coach Rick Barnes announced Monday. They are 6-6 junior guard/forward Deginald Erskin and 6-1 freshman point guard Drew Gressett. Erskin, a cousin of former Longhorn Kris Clack, is from Gonzales. He played at North Texas State for two years, averaging 12.3 points as a freshman and 18.9 points as a sophomore. He will have to sit out this year, but can practice with the team. Gressett was an All-District guard at Austin Westlake last season, averaging 15 points and 6 assists per game. * * * * My next e-mail/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 ? daily with recruiting news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com