Message-ID: <11792201.1075852131743.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 06:24:58 -0700 (PDT) From: dgagliardi@reliant.com To: clint.dean@enron.com Subject: FW: True Orange E-Mail/Fas #65 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: dgagliardi@reliant.com@ENRON X-To: Dean, Clint , chay@reliant.com, JFranklin@reliant.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \CDEAN (Non-Privileged)\Dean, Clint\Info X-Origin: DEAN-C X-FileName: CDEAN (Non-Privileged).pst ----- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 07/13/01 08:23 AM ----- "Gagliardi, Michael" To: "'dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com'" , , nocal.com> "'david.ricks@spotplus.com'" cc: 07/13/01 Subject: FW: True Orange E-Mail/Fas #65 07:05 AM > -----Original Message----- > From: TruOrange@aol.com [SMTP:TruOrange@aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:42 PM > To: TruOrange@aol.com > Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fas #65 > > True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service > Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #65, Thursday, July 12, 2001 > Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - > Phone > 512-795-8536 > > European Shooting Guard Commits to UT; Horns Set Tulane FB Games > > Sydmill Harris, a 6-5 shooting guard for The Netherlands National Team, > has > committed to Texas and will be eligible this season for coach Rick Barnes. > Barnes and all of his assistant coaches are on the road recruiting and are > > not available for comment, but Harris' decision was announced in The > Netherlands. Unfortunately, it was announced in German, not English. I > don't > speak German and I can't read it either, but I could make out enough > references to Harris, the University of Texas and Rick Barnes to figure it > > out. > Harris visited Texas in June. > Thanks to new subscriber Kevin Ferrell of Connecticut for finding that > story > for me at an Amsterdam newspaper's internet site. > I don't have any statistics for Harris, but he is supposed to be a very > good > shooter with excellent range. Barnes needs a scorer after Maurice Evans' > decision to hire an agent and turn pro. Evans was ignored in the NBA draft > > and is pro chances are limited now, but he forfeited his final year of > collegiate eligibility when he hired an agent. > * * * * > Texas and Tulane officials are putting the final touches on a > home-and-home > series in football that will have Texas visiting New Orleans on Sept. 28, > 2002, and Tulane coming to Austin for a Sept. 27, 2003 game. A visit to > New > Orleans is a very nice road trip for Longhorn fans. > * * * * > All of the Longhorn football players who missed some or all of spring > practice except TE Artie Ellis are running and jumping and doing all of > the > things that seem to indicate they are fully recovered. As I noted in an > earlier e-mail/fax, Ellis is still having problems with his shin bone. DT > Stevie Lee, who had a larger pin placed in his foot after the first pin > failed to hold, is looking fine in the running drills. > * * * * > CEDRIC BENSON UPDATE:Super RB recruit Cedric Benson of Midland Lee is back > in > Austin this week working out with the other UT players. He appears to be > in > excellent shape. He was in Austin earlier this summer, but returned to > Midland when he was negotiating a pro baseball contract. He has signed a > pro > contract similar to the one Ricky Williams signed, which allows him to > concentrate on football during football season and football training > periods. > * * * * > RECRUITING ROUNDUP: Without naming anyone, let me try to cool a lot of > internet speculation by stating that no out-of-state running back has a > scholarship offer from Texas as this point. While I'm talking about the > internet, don't believe what you hear from a lot of kids about all the > offers > they have. College coaches are very good at making a kid feel wanted while > > they are still trying to figure out whether to offer a scholarship. Lots > of > kids take what the coaches are saying to mean they have an offer. A good > rule > of thumb if you have a kid who is or will be recruited in later years is > to > remember that a scholarship isn't offered until the coach says it is > offered. > . . It looks like the two WRs the Horns have really zeroed in on are > Marquis > Johnson of Champaign, Illinois, and Robert Timmons of Flower Mound Marcus. > > Both are tall, going aboutg 6-2 or 6-3, and both are in the 190-200-pound > range. Johnson is on most of the national top 100s lists and Timmons, the > top > WR in Texas, is on several of them. . . The Longhorns still have 11 > commitments. They are LB Brian Robison, 6-3, 245, 4.6, of Splendora; OL > Neale Tweedie, 6-5, 260, 4.9, of Allen; LB Marcus Myers, 6-3, 220, 4.5, of > > Pflugerville Connally; TE-LB David Thomas, 6-3, 210, 4.6, of Wolfforth > Frenship; WR Dustin Miksch, 6-0, 165, 4.4, of Round Rock Westwood; QB > Billy > Don Malone, 6-2 1/2, 185, 4.7, of Paris North Lamar; RB/Athlete Clint > Haney, 5-11, 190, 4.27 of Smithson Valley; OL Brett Valdez, 6-4, 310, 5.1, > of > Brownwood, and DTs Sonny Davis, 6-1, 320, 5.0, of Gulf Coast JC in > Mississippi, Earl Anderson, 6-4, 270, 4.8, of San Marcos and Lyle > Sendlein, > 6-4, 260, 4.8, of Scottsdale Chaparral, the two-time defending Class 4A > champion in Arizona. > * * * * > My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant. > * * * * > The True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service includes at least 99 fax/e-mails 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.