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< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #91, Wednesday, September 12, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< LB Smith Commits to Texas Because of Nicer People, Better Academics
<
< LB Garnet Smith, 6-3, 221, 4.54, of Arlington Lamar, told me this
< afternoon
< (Wednesday) he has committed to Texas and plans to stick with his
< commi8tment.
< "I talked to coach (Mack) Brown, coach (Carl Reese) and coach(Bruce)
< Chambers
< last night and told them all I want to be a Longhorn," he said. "I'm sure

< now. I am solid on this. I definitely know where I want to go and it is
< Texas."
< Smith said, "I want to go where I will be happy, and I feel like I will
be
<
< happy in Austin. The Texas people have said nothing but nice things to
me,
<
< even when they thought I was committed to Oklahoma, but the OU people
< haven't
< been that nice."
< He also is a good student who said he had never realized how much
< difference
< there is in the two schools academically until he looked at an academic
< rating of colleges. "Oklahoma just can't compare to Texas academically,"
< he
< said.
< Smith said his head coach and several of his assistant coaches are
< Oklahoma
< graduates and have been "pushing me to go to Oklahoma."
< Folks, I lived in Oklahoma for 18 years while working as a political and
< investigative reporter for The Associated Press, and, unless things have
< changed a great deal there, coaches with degrees from Texas would not be

< able to keep their jobs if an Oklahoma kid said they were trying to push
< him
< to sign with Texas.
< I don't think the Arlington Lamar coaches should be hit that hard, but if
<
< you live in that school district or have friends who do, it might be a
< good
< idea to tell them to tell those coaches to cool it. I don't think a kid's

< coaches should pressure him to attend a certain school.
< Smith denied ever committing to Oklahoma. "The commitment to Texas is
the
<
< only commitment I have made," he said, "and I intend to keep it."
< Smith is the closest thing out there this year to sensational Longhorn
< freshman LB Derrick Johnson. Look for them to be outstanding outside
< backers,
< one on the weakside and one on the strongside, for years to come at UT.
< The Longhorns have 13 commitments and probably will get No. 14 Sunday,
< when
< super DE Chase Pittman of Shreveport Evangel announces his college choice

< before his church congregation. It's between Texas and LSU and I will be
< very
< surprised if picks the Tigers.
< The other 12 recruits who have committed to UT are DTs Sonny Davis, 6-1,
< 320,
< 5.0, of Gulf Coast JC in Mississippi and formerly of Austin Lanier, Earl
< Anderson, 6-4, 270, 4.8, of San Marcos, Lyle Sendlein, 6-4, 260, 4.8, of

< Scottsdale Chaparral, the two-time defending Class 4A champion in
Arizona,
<
< and Tully Janszen, 6-4, 255, 4.78, of Keller; LBs Brian Robison, 6-3,
245,
<
< 4.6, of Splendora and Marcus Myers, 6-3, 220, 4.5, of Pflugerville
< Connally;
< OLs Brett Valdez, 6-4, 310, 5.1, of Brownwood and Neale Tweedie, 6-5,
< 260,
< 4.9, of Allen; 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/Ath Clint Haney, 5-11, 190,

< 4.27 of Smithson Valley.
< Seven of the players - Smith, Davis, Anderson, Sendlein, Valdez, Tweedie
< and
< Thomas - have been on one or more national top 100 lists. Davis was on
all
<
< the lists last year. If Pittman comes aboard Sunday, that will give the
< Longhorns eight players who have been on national top 100 lists.
< After watching tape of two games Malone played in, I think he is a lot
< better
< than most recruiting services have him rated. He has good size, a good
< arm,
< good mobility, and, most important of all, he seems to read defenses
< extremely well. That is the quality that separates great quarterbacks
from
<
< good quarterbacks at the college level.
< If you have quality wide receivers, at least one of them is always going
< to
< be able to get open. The college quarterbacks who find the open receivers

< have the 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratios that
< championship
< teams need. In his opening game last week, Malone completged 11 of 22
< passes
< for 263 yards and scored both his team's touchdowns on runs of 2 and 3
< yards
< in a 16-13 loss to Longview Pine Tree.
< * * * *
< 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
< 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
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