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Dear True Orange Subscriber,
My records show your subscription to the True Orange newsletter by e-mail expires on October 22. I sure hope you plan to renew because the Longhorns have their highest ranking in 18 years and they have the horses (make that steers) to stay in the national title hunt. It's $35 to renew your subscription for another year. Send the check to True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, TX 78755-0530. If you would like to also start getting 110 to 120 e-mail/faxes a year like the ones below, just send a check for $99. If you add the e-mail/fax service when you renew, I'll give you the e-mail/faxes I do between the time I get your check and your subscription expiration date. Act swiftly and you can get quite a few free e-mail/faxes. Thanks, Jerry Scarbrough/True Orange Here's a sample e-mail/fax so you can see what they are like. True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #95, Monday, September 24, 2001 Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 - Phone 512-795-8536 Texas-Oklahoma Game Set for 2:30 P. M., National ABC Telecast The big showdown next week between top five powers Texas and Oklahoma in Dallas has been set for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff and will be televised nationally by ABC. Both teams are unbeaten, but both face tough tests this week. The Sooners, ranked No. 3 nationally, face No. 11 Kansas State, and the Longhorns, ranked No. 5, play unbeaten Texas Tech. * * * * Coach Mack Brown said Monday he thinks the Longhorn offense has been steadily improving this season, but he said the defense has reverted to last year's problem of being victimized by what he called "off-schedule plays." You and I call those misdirection plays, but, by any terminology, they were a major problem for the Texas defense in Saturday night's 53-26 victory at Houston. "We have to do a better job on off-schedule plays," Brown said. "We're going to work on that a lot this week. We need to tackile better and we need to do a better job of recognizing what the other team is doing." With Texas Tech and Oklahoma, two teams who love misdirection, filling the next two spots on the schedule, it could be fatal to the Longhorns' lofty ambitions unless they show a lot of improvement in tackling and recognizing misdirection plays. Texas leads the Big 12 in scoring, averaging 46 points per game, but Tech is No. 2 with a 42-point average. Brown said the Longhorns have to get a much better defensive performance against Tech than they got against Houston "or we'll get beat." He also said Texas will have a real challenge in trying to corral Tech QB Kliff Kingsbury, one of the nation's top passers, and TB Ricky Williams, who is averaging 74.5 yards per game rushing and is the Big 12's leading receiver, averaging 10 catches per game for 95 yards. "He's very dangerous on those short passes," Brown said of Williams. "He's completely healthy for the first time in a long time and he's one of the most dangerous backs in the country." Linebackers have to do a good job on Williams or he has a big day. Since linebacker play is not a strength on this Longhorn team, we need to hope the Texas offense has a great day. I think freshman LB Derrick Johnson is already the team's best linebacker, but he didn't see any first-half action at Houston. He made an immediate impact when he came in early in the third quarter. Brown said Johnson and RB Cedric Benson are potentially great players, but he said both "have only been going to class in college for about two or three weekis." He said the coaches have to simplify offensive and defensive assignments when they play because they haven't had time to learn everything they need to know. "Derrick is so talented and he has a real nose for the ball," Brown said. "He's one of the best athletes coming out of high school that I've seen." But he said defensive coordinator Carl Reese "has a pretty complicated system and we're bringing him along as fast as we can." He said Johnson and Benson will see more action as the season progresses and they learn more about their assignments. * * * * RECRUITING NOTES: Texas still has 14 commitments. The two super linebackers who are still uncommitted - Aaron Harris of North Mesquite and Marvin Byrdsong of Longview - have had some changes in their list of favorites recently. Harris had been a strong lean to Texas, but he told me today he likes Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M all about the same. "I don't really have a favorite," he said. "They're all about even." But Byrdsong, who has a brother at Mississippi State and who had been leaning toward the Bulldogs, now says he really likes Texas. I think Texas can get both of them if the Horns beat OU and A&M and if Byrdsong continues to make some progress in the classroom. . . It looks like DT Earl Anderson of San Marcos has a good chance to keep his Longhorn scholarship. Brown shies away from problem kids as a rule, but Anderson, who was arrested on two misdemeanor charges last week, had never been in any trouble before and that will help him. He committed to Texas several weeks ago. . . But the Longhorns don't appear likely to offer a scholarship to the state's top WR, Robert Timmons of Flower Mound Marcus, because his latest suspension is just another in a long line of problems. By the way, when I put stuff like this in my e-mail/faxes, I don't want to see it on the internet. I can't give you the inside scoop on things like this if it goes public because these kids and their coaches read the internet and it could hurt the Longhorns' recruiting. I want to give you the true picture, but I can't if you don't cooperate on this. * * * * My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant. * * * * The True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service includes at least 110 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 both services 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.
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