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True Orange Fax/E-Mail Service
Volume 8, Fax/E-Mail #105, Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
Phone
512-795-8536

Longhorns Getting Thinner at TE; Fall Signings Impressive

Coach Mack Brown said Wednesday TE Brock Edwards is questionable for the
Kansas game because his sore calf felt worse Wednesday than it did earlier
in
the week. As it stands now, he said Chad Stevens will start against Kansas
Saturday.
The Longhorns have had an incredible run of bad luck at TE. First, budding
star Bo Scaife tore an ACL on the first day of pre-season workouts. That
moved Mike Jones into the starting lineup and he, too, tore an ACL,
although
he did get to play in six games before incurring the injury. That moved
true
freshman Edwards, the only remaining scholarship TE, into the starting
lineup.
Stevens, a high school TE, had been moved to FB, but has moved back to TE
full time.
It was cold and rainy Tuesday and Wednesday in Austin and Brown said he was
happy about it because there is a very good chance it will be cold and
rainy
Saturday in Lawrence.
* * * *
FOOTBALL RECRUITING NOTES: DT Marquise Hill, 6-6, 300, 5.0, of New Orleans
De
La Salle, says he will take an official visit to Texas the Thanksgiving
weekend and wsill attend the Texas-A&M game. Hill is visiting LSU this
week,
Michigan the Dec. 1 weekend, Georgia the Dec. 8 weekend and Georgia Tech
the
Dec. 15 weekend. He said his big three are Michigan, LSU and Texas. . . The
Longhorns are still at 19 commitments and are still expected to wind up
with
25 or 26 signees.
* * * *
FALL SIGNING ROUNDUP
The Longhorns cleaned up on the first day of the fall signing period
Wednesday.
BASKETBALL RECRUITING NOTES: Point guard T.J. Ford, 5-11, 165, of Sugar
Land
Willowridge, and center Chris Wright, 6-10, 235, of Redwater, signed
basketball letters of intent with Texas Wednesday, the first day of the
fall
signing period.
Coach Rick Barnes said Ford is ranked as the nation's top point guard by
Bob
Gibbons' All-Star Report and Wright is rated as the No. 25 prospect in the
country by Gibbons.
For those of you who like to keep up with future prospects, 6-7 Louisiana
star Derek Burditt of Marrero Ehret is the cousin of former Longhorn star
Albert Burditt. He is one of the nation's top juniors. The next great
player
in Texas might be 6-8 sophomore Kendrick Perkins of Beaumont Ozen. The
Longhorns are recruiting both these underclassmen.
* * * *
Texas women's coach Jody Conradt signed three players, including two high
school All-Americans. Joining the Longhorn program next year will be 6-2
forward Kala Bowers of Woodward, Oklahoma , a USA Today and Street & Smith
All-American who is rated as the 16th best player in the nation by one
recruiting service; 6-2 forward Heather Schreiber of Windthorst, an AAU
All-American and three-time First Team All-State performer rated as the No.
1
player in the state of Texas by the Texas Girls Basketball Report and by
the
Texas Hoops recruiting service, and 5-11 All-State guard Colencia "Coco"
Reed
of Houston Jersey Village.
* * * *
BASEBALL RECRUITING NOTES: Head coach Augie Garrido signed 12 top prospects
Wednesday, including right-handed pitchers Luis Cortez of Sinton, Joey
Guajardo of Round Rock, Donald Levinski of Weimar, Kole Strayhorn of
Shawnee,
Oklahoma, and Huston Street and Chaz Taylor, both of Austin Westlake. He
also
inked shortstop Michael Hollimon of Dallas Jesuit. Texas also signed
catchers
James Sweeney of Houston Bellaire and Curtis Thigpen of Forney. Other
signhees included infielders Seth Johnston of Boerne and Ryan Olivo of
Grapevine, and pitcher-infielder J. D. Reininger of Smithson Valley.
Hollimon
and Sweeney are the state's best at their positions and Guajardo and
Levinski
are two of the top three pitchers.
* * * *
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