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                    07/13/01             Subject:     FW: True Orange E-Mail/Fas #65
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> -----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
>
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> I also  update my 900 number - 1-900-288-8839 - frequently with
recruiting
>
> news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com.