Message-ID: <16273322.1075857356992.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 04:14:00 -0800 (PST) From: truorange@aol.com To: truorange@aol.com Subject: True Orange, November 27, Part 2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: TruOrange@aol.com X-To: TruOrange@aol.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Clint_Dean_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Info X-Origin: Dean-C X-FileName: cdean.nsf Part 2 The Bowl Outlook The Longhorns' victory over the Aggies assured them a spot in a major bowl game. It probably will be the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on against Pacific Coast tri-champion Oregon State, a very good 10-1 team. But it could be the Cotton Bowl for a third straight year against an SEC power. Let's look at the Big 12 Conference's bowl setup: 1. Champion gets an automatic BCS bowl bid. a. If OU loses to Kansas State, the Sooners might get a BCS at-large bowl bid. 2. Cotton Bowl, Jan. 1, payout $2.5 million, picks first after BCS bowls fi= ll up. 10 a.m. Fox 3. Holiday Bowl, Dec. 29, payout $1.9 million, gets second pick. 7:30 p.m. ESPN 4. Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Dec. 30, payout $1.2 million, comes next. 7 p.m. ESPN 5. Insight.com Bowl in Tucson, Dec. 28, payout $750,000, gets the next bid. 6:30 p.m. ESPN 6. Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Dec. 30, payout $1.1 million. 7 p.m. ES= PN 7. Galleryfurniture.com Bowl in Houston, Dec. 27, payout $750,000, comes la= st in the Big 12 pecking order. 7 p.m. ESPN-2 The bowl bids won't go out until after the Big 12 title game this weekend, but Kansas State probably needs to beat Oklahoma and win the automatic BCS berth to avoid falling to the lower-ranking bowls on the Big 12 list. K-State coach Bill Snyder is outstanding at winning games, but is not popul= ar with the bowl committee members because they feel he is a very reluctant participant in the pre-bowl festivities. So, the Wildcats probably won't affect the Longhorns' bowl hopes because th= ey will either beat Oklahoma and get an automatic BCS bid or the will lose to the Sooners and be picked for a bowl bid after the Longhorns are already se= t. I think Oklahoma will get a BCS bid, even if the Sooners lose to K-State Saturday. In that case, the Sooners wouldn't affect the Longhorns' bowl prospects either. That leaves the bowls with Big 12 ties looking like this after the BCS pick= s: Cotton Bowl - Nebraska (9-2) or Texas (9-2) vs. SEC team, probably Tennesse= e (8-3) Holiday Bowl - Texas (9-2) or Nebraska (9-2) vs. Oregon State (10-1) Alamo Bowl - probably Texas A&M (7-4) or Kansas State (10-2) vs. Northwestern (8-3) Insight.com Bowl - A&M (7-4) or Kansas State (10-2) vs. Big East team Independence Bowl - Iowa State (8-3) vs. SEC team Galleryfurniture.com Bowl - Texas Tech (7-5) vs. East Carolina (7-4) I'm pulling for Texas to wind up in the Cotton Bowl game again because I'd like for the Horns to win their last game this season and I think Tennessee is a better matchup for UT than Oregon State. FINAL BIG 12 STANDINGS SOUTHERN DIVISION Conference Season W L PF PA Pct. W L PF PA Pct. Oklahoma 8 0 299 133 1.000 11 0 441 168 1.000 Texas 7 1 301 160 .875 9 2 425 197 .818 Texas A&M 5 3 201 152 .625 7 4 307 196 .636 Texas Tech 3 5 202 212 .375 7 5 303 238 .583 Okla. State 1 7 137 249 .125 3 8 202 303 .273 Baylor 0 8 82 343 .000 2 9 139 397 .18= 2 NORTHERN DIVISION Conference Season W L PF PA Pct. W L PF PA Pct. Kansas State 6 2 578 186 .750 10 2 490 213 .83= 3 Nebraska 6 2 338 163 .750 9 2 456 213 .81= 8 Iowa State 5 3 220 242 .625 8 3 306 293 .72= 7 Colorado 3 5 200 222 .375 3 8 252 284 .27= 3 Kansas 2 6 179 308 .250 4 7 261 359 .36= 3 Missouri 2 6 186 253 .250 3 8 255 348 .27= 3 Last Week's Results Texas 43, Texas A&M 17 Oklahoma 12, Oklahoma State 7 Nebraska 34, Colorado 32 2000 Longhorn Schedule, Record (9-2) Texas Opp. Sept. 9 Louisiana-Laf. 52 10 Sept 16 at Stanford 24 27 Sept 23 Houston 48 0 Sept 30 Oklahoma State 42 7 Oct. 7 Oklahoma (Dallas)14 63 Oct. 14 at Colorado 28 14 Oct. 21 Missouri 46 12 Oct. 28 Baylor 48 14 Nov. 4 at Texas Tech 29 17 Nov. 11 at Kansas 51 16 Nov. 24 Texas A&M 43 17 Scoring by Quarters Texas 58 133 117 117 - 425 Opponents 56 68 52 21 - 197 UT Women Win Tourney Senior guard JoRuth Woods scored 19 points to lead the Texas women's basketball team to a 78-74 over Denver late Sunday night in Cancun, Mexico, in the championship game of the Torneo Cancun de Basquetbol. Woods was the tourney MVP and was joined on the All-Tournament Team by 6-2 freshman forward Annissa Hastings, who came off the bench to score a career-high 16 points to lead Texas to a 73-59 win over Louisville in the first round of the tourney Saturday night. Texas hit 23 of 33 free throws, including a six for eight performance in t= he final 30 seconds to ice the championship game. The Longhorns are 5-1 and off to their best start since the 1996-97 season. Coach Jody Conradt said she is "very pleased" with the way her young team i= s improving. Recruiting Roundup Let's get the bad news out of the way first, because there is a lot of good news to brighten the overall picture. The bad news is that the Horns really have an uphill fight in their bid to sign the state's top recruit =01) DT Tommie Harris of Killeen Ellison. Oklahoma has the inside track now, and the Sooners will have to stumble on the field or in their recruiting of Harris to give the Horns a chance to g= et back in the race. * * * * Nearly all of the 19 recruits who have already committed to Texas have chos= en plan to take their official visits the Dec. 15 weekend, and so have most of the players the Longhorns are still recruiting. That is the weekend of the annual football banquet and the only Longhorn pledges who won't be taking official visits that weekend are DE Eric Hall o= f Clarksville, Tenn., who took his official visit earlier, and possibly playe= rs like RB Cedric Benson of Midland Lee and QB-Athlete Kendal Briles of Wollforth Frenship, because they play on teams that might be still alive in the state playoffs in mid-December. Benson, last year's Class 5A Offensive Player of the Year, had 19 carries f= or 201 yards and three touchdowns on runs of 26, 52 and 11 yards in a 45-14 thumping of El Paso Franklin in the state playoffs last weekend. He also scored on a 52-yard screen pass. Briles, last year's Class 4A Offensive Player of the year, completed 15 of = 20 passes for 230 yards and five touchdowns in a 61-6 romp past El Paso Ysleta= . Briles, who led Stephenville to the state 4A title last year, has thrown fo= r more than 3,000 yards and 30 touchdown and has run for more than 800 yards and 12 more TDs so far this season. Despite rumors galore to the contrary, both Benson and Briles said they remain solidly committed to Texas. * * * * With 19 scholarships already committed, Texas will give only five to seven more this season. They could go as high as seven because they can count punter Brian Bradford of Trinity Valley JC, who will enroll in January, against last year. The best players still available who list the Longhorns No. 1 are LB Derric= k Johnson of Waco, DL Kaelen Jakes of Valencia, Cal.; TE James Moses and DE Jonathan Jackson, both of Galena Park North Shore; OL William Winston of Houston Madison, safety Dewayne Brandon of Temple, athlete Quan Cosby of Ma= rt and DT Paul Broussard of Blinn JC. Most of the remaining six or seven scholarships will go to the players in that group. DT Marquise Hill, 6-6, 300, 5.0, of New Orleans De La Salle, and DE Justin Tomerlin, 6-7, 260, of San Clemente, Cal., are a couple of outstanding prospects who might visit Texas, but they are the longest of long shots rig= ht now. * * * * Top recruits who came to the A&M game were DTs Harris and Broussard, and Longhorn commitments OLs Jonathan Scott of Dallas Carter, Mike Garcia of Galena Park and Terrance Young of Longview, LBs Yamil Lebron of Killeen Ellison and Lance McFarland of Jefferson and RB Anthony Johnson of Jefferso= n. Two top junior prospects also were on hand =01) OL Kyle Thornton, 6-5, 300,= 5.2, of Dallas St. Mark's and WR Anthony Wright, 6-3, 200, 4.5, of Klein Forest. Thornton is the younger brother of Longhorn freshman DE starter Kalen Thornton. Aggie Injury Excuses Hollow The Aggies players and coaches did a lost of post-game moaning about their injury problems. For the second straight year, Texas was missing starting QB Major Applewhit= e against A&M and the Horns also were down to a backup FB, Chad Stevens, playing TE because all three scholarship TEs were injured. Two top DT reserves, Stevie Lee and Ryan Haywood, were lost for the season, starting safety Lee Jackson and super DT Shaun Rogers have missed a lot of time with injuries and redshirt freshman WR Artie Ellis, the guy who was counted on to give those super freshmen some time to mature, had been out nearly all year with a sore shin. Then you have OL like Derrick Dockery and Antwan Kirk-Hughes who have been battle sickness and/or injuries all year. The point is that every team has injuries, and Texas has had more of them this season than Texas A&M. Basketball Team 3-1 Texas took a big early lead over Indiana Friday night and then held off a Hoosier comeback for a 70-58 victory in the consolation game of the Tivo Preseason NIT in New York City. The Longhorns (3-1) started three freshmen - James Thomas, Brandon Mouton a= nd Royal Ivey - and used a stifling defense to take a 42-22 lead at halftime. Indiana (2-2) climbed back into the game and cut the lead to seven points a= t 49-42, limiting Texas to just two baskets in the first 8:52 of the second half. Then Thomas scored five straight points as Texas restored a comfortable lea= d with a 13-0 run. Mouton and Maurice Evans opened the game with consecutive 3-pointers, and t= he Texas defensive pressure forced a lot of turnovers. Chis Owens had 12 points in the first half and led Texas with 15 points and 14 rebounds. Texas had fallen to top-ranked Duke, 95-69 Wednesday in the tourney semifinals. Mouton led Texas with 18 points and Evans had 17. Baseball Team Adds Four Baseball coach Augie Garrido has signed third baseman Nic Crosta of Seattle= , Wash, right-handed pitchers Chris Scofield of Fort Worth Nolan and Danny Muegge of Blinn JC and centerfielder Dustin Majewski of Blinn JC.to round o= ut the Longhorns' early signing class for the 2001-02 campaign. "With their potential both offensively and defensively, thse players are solid additions to our early signing class that will provide us with depth= ," said Texas assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Tommy Harmon. "Overall, we are very pleased with the student-athletes we have signed for the 2001-02 season." An honor student at Nolan Catholic High School, Scofield earned All-State honors to go along with All-Area distinctions in 2000 as he helped the Vikings capture their district championship and finish second in the state finals. He was also named his team's MVP last season and was a teammate o= f current Longhorn freshman pitcher Tim McGough at Nolan. Crosta is a three-year varsity letterman, a three-time All-Seamount League selection and two-time team MVP for Highline High School in Seattle, Wash. An honor student, Crosta posted a league-leading .551 batting average last season to go along with conference-best numbers in RBI (31) and home runs (= 8) to win the Seamount League's Triple Crown and earn South County Journal All-Area accolades. He was also named the Everett Wood Bat Classic MVP and to an All-Tournament team in Reno, Nev., this past summer. Majewski hit .385 and blasted 16 homers at Blinn last season. Muegge played last season at McLennan JC in Waco, and is playing for Blinn this season. H= e has a very good changeup and a fast ball in the 88-90 mph range. Reese Signs Top Prospects Texas swimming coach Eddie Reese and diving coach Matt Scoggin have signed three top recruits. They are swimmers Andrew Davidson of Father Ryan HS in Nashvill and Rainer Kendrick of Homewood HS in Birminghamm and diver Jonathan Linette of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Davidson, a four-time high school All-American and 1999 Southeastern Conference Swimmer of the Year, is the defending Tennessee state champion i= n the 100 butterfly and 100-yard backstroke. He also won the 1999 Junior National Championship in the 200 backstroke and qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 100 and 200 backstroke. Kendrick is a four-time All-State honoree and two-time South Eastern Swimme= r of the Year. At the 1999 American Short Course Championships, he placed first in both th= e 200 and the 400 individual medley events, while also finishing runner-up i= n the 100 freestyle and 200 butterfly. Linette won back-to-back Junior National Titles (1998 and 1999) on the 10-meter platform, and also captured the bronze medal at the 2000 Junior World Championships in the platform event. She posted a 12th-place finish (885.93) on the platform at the U. S. Olympic Trials. "We are extremely pleased in this group," said Reese. "They are very talent= ed and are definitely strong in each of their events, which will help solidify and add versatility to our roster." Women's Golf Inks Pair Texas women's golf coach Susan Watkins has signed Lisa Ferrero of Lodi, Cal= ., and Perry Swenson of Charlotte, N. C. Ferrero won the 2000 U.S. Girls Junior Amateur title at the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course in North Plains, Ore. last summer. The three-time AJGA All-American is currently ranked No. 15 in the Golfweek= 's Girls Amateur Ratings, where she has posted 26 top-25 finishes. Swenson is ranked 58th in the Golfweek's Girls Amateur Ratings. Last season= , she helped her team capture the regional championships and place third at t= he state championships. The AJGA All-American Honorable Mention honoree captured the 2000 Greensbor= o Rolex Tournament and was a member of the 2000 East Canon Cup Team. A True Orange Subscription Is The Gift You Can Give Every Year for Your Longhorn Friends A subscription to True Orange is the perfect gift for any occasion for a Longhorn who has everything else. It's only $45 ($35 by e-mail) and I'll send an attractive card announcing your thoughtful gift. 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