Message-ID: <7302755.1075857354846.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #101 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 10/25/2000 08:39 AM --------------------------- mggagliardi@duke-energy.com on 10/25/2000 06:45:40 AM To: DGagliardi@reliantenergy.com, David_Ricks@GSDM.com, Tony.A.Rogers@fritolay.com cc: Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #101 ---------------------- Forwarded by Michael Gagliardi/Hou-ComOps/EnergyTrading/PEC on 10/25/2000 06:57 AM --------------------------- TruOrange@aol.com on 10/24/2000 09:36:02 PM To: TruOrange@aol.com cc: Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #101 True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #101, Tuesday, October 24, 2000 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Longhorns Facing Last Breather Before Tough Stretch Run The Longhorns need to use Saturday's game with Baylor to jump start their offense because the Bears might be the worst team in the Big 12, but the Horns finish the regular season with risky road trips to Texas Tech and Kansas and then a home game with Texas A&M. A slow start offensively in any of those last three game could be fatal, just like it was against Stanford and Oklahoma. The offense finally scored an offensive touchdown in the first quarter Saturday, and it was their first in the first quarter since the Texas Tech game last year. Let's hope they get out to a fast start Saturday and it carries over into the last three games. * * * * Freshman TE Brock Edwards is a talented young man who should be able to step up and do the job now that the team's top two tight ends (Bo Scaife and Mike Jones) are injured, UT tight end coach Tim Brewster said Tuesday. "We're going to expect him to step up and play well," Brewster said. "We're not going to put any limitations on him because he's a freshman. We've told all the freshmen who have been playing that they aren't freshmen anymore. We'll try to do everything we would normally do with the tight end." Coach Mack Brown said Edwards, who was a tailback his senior year in high school, has worked hard to improve his blocking. "He's doing much better with hjis blocking" Brown said. "That was his problem early, because he hadn't done it before, but he's picking it up pretty good." Brown said Jones is out this week and for the forseeable future. He said FB Chad Stevens worked at TE Tuesday and will continue to practice at both positions. With Edwards starting at TE, the Longhorns will have true freshmen starting at their three primary pass-catching positions because Roy Williams and B. J. Johnson are the starting WRs. Another true freshman WR, Sloan Thomas, caught two touchdown passes against Missouri. DT Marcus Tubbs appeared to be recovered from his sore shoulder, and starting DT Shaun Rogers said his sprained ankle is feeling much better. He was moving better than he has since he injured it four weeks ago. OG Antwan Kirk-Hughes probably will start Saturday and play until and unless his shoulder injury flares up again, offensive coordinator Greg Davis said. Brown also said WR Artie Ellis is questionable for the Baylor game with a sore shin. * * * * Former Auburn Heisman Trophy winner and former pro star Bo Jackson talked to the team after practice Tuesday. Brown said Jackson told the players to make the most of their days playing for the Longhorns because they will always be known as Texas Longhorns. He said Jackson still identifies with Auburn more than the NFL. * * * * FOOTBALL RECRUITING NOTES: Fullback James Buchanon of Sarasota, Fla., picked Florida State over Texas and Boston College Tuesday. The decision was expected. . . Folks, in talking to the top recruits who are still out there, I think DL Kaelen Jakes of Valencia HS in Placentia, Cal., is the only out-of-state prospect left who is a strong Longhorn lean. I also think there is a good chance Jakes, Galena Park North Shore's dynamic duo of TE James Moses and DE Jonathan Jackson and Waco's super linebacker Derrick Johnson are all future Longhorns. I hope Tommie Harris is, too, but that one is still up in the air. * * * * FOOTBALL NOTES: Some of the freshmen who are being redshirted are impressing the first-team guys with their work on the scout team. Six who draw consistent praise from the starters are LB Austin Sendlein, QB Chance Mock, TB Sneezy Beltran, FB Will Matthews, WR Tony Jeffery and OT Lionel Garr. * * * * My next fax will be whenever events warrant. Please note that is Fax No. 101. I don't start a new series until Dec. 1, so it looks like I will be doing about 110 to 120 during this 12-month series. I promise at least 99 and I have never done less than 104. I do them when I think they are needed and a lot have been needed this year. * * * * 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. 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