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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #103
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #103, Monday, October 22, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Horns Favored by 20 at Missouri; Baylor Game Set for 11:30 & TV
<
< The Longhorns are favored by 20 points for their 1 p.m. game Saturday at
< Missouri. There will be no TV for the game, contrary to earlier
< announcements. Isn't it ironic that the longest road trip of the year
will
< be
< the Longhorn's first game this year to fail to be televised? So much for
< Texas' legendary clout with the TV networks.
< But the road game at Baylor the following week has been set for an 11:30
< p.m.
< kickoff and will be televised by Fox Syndication. Check your local
< listings
< to see who will televise the game.
< A kickoff time for Texas' final home game with Kansas on Saturday,
< November
< 10 has yet to be set. The Longhorns season finale at Texas A&M on
< Friday,
< November 23, will kick off at 11 a.m. and be broadcast nationally on ABC

< sports.
< * * * *
< Coach Mack Brown said Monday the Longhorn players and coaches have taken
< note
< of the rash of upsets around the country and are determined to take care
< of
< their business. He also said this Longhorn team "has been as good as the
< teams we had at North Carolina, but the question is how they finish. We
< finished strong at North Carolina."
< He said he has told the Longhorn players they have the ability to win the

< rest of their games if they show up and play hard every week.
< * * * *
< The first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings were announced Monday
< and
< Texas was ranked No. 6 behind five teams with perfect records. The BCS
< standings are like golf in that the lowest score is the best score.
< Oklahoma
< came in at No. 1 in the first standings at 3.06, followed by Nebraska at
< 6.40, UCLA at 8.34, Miami at 12.01, Virginia Tech at 13.88, Texas at
< 15.35,
< Michigan at 15.91, Maryland at 21.29, Tennessee at 22.07 and Washington
< State
< at 23.05 to round out the top 10.
< One of the top two will drop this week because OU and Nebraska meet in
< Lincoln. Miami and Virginia Tech also clash in the final weeki of the
< regular
< season, so at least two of the teams above Texas are certain to lose.
< Under the BCS formula, the top four teams in the final standings are
< guaranteed berths in one of the four BCS Bowls, which are the Rose,
< Orange,
< Fiesta and Sugar. The Rose Bowl will get the national title game this
< year.
< If Texas wins out, the Longhorns probably will wind up in New Orleans in
< the
< Sugar Bowl.
< Coach Brown said, "This is the time of year when polls finally begin to
< matter and we are really excited to be in the mix for national honors.
< This
< team has earned that respect, and with all the football left to play, who

< knows what will happen?"
< "What we have to do is to keep improving, and concetnrate on the next
< game,"
< he said. "You can't win the the rest unless you win the next one. And if
< we
< win the rest, we have a chance for some very good things to happen. But
we
<
< have to beat Missouri Saturday on the road, and that's the only thing we
< can
< control this week."
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: WR Robert Timmons of Flower Mound Marcus committed to
< Florida Monday, and LB Michael Williams of Lindale said he is committed
to
<
< Oklahoma, but wants to visit Texas and Minnesota and possibly Texas Tech
< "to
< be sure." Texas had offered Williams and the Longhorns are continuing to
< try
< to recruit him. The Horns had not offered Timmons because of some
< off-field
< problems he has had, but they were considering offering him at the end of
< the
< season and still might do so if he appears interested. . . The Longhorns
< still have 16 commitments, but one of them, LB Garnet Smith of Arlington
< Lamar is in the same shape as Michael Williams. He says he is committed
to
<
< Texas, but wants to take some visits to be be sure.
< * * * *
< BASKETBALL RECRUITING: Brad Buckman, the 6-8 power forward at Austin
< Westlake
< who is a national top 50 recruit, told me tonight all the reports that he
< has
< already decided to attend North Carolina "just aren't true. I'm trying to

< decide between Texas and North Carolina and it's 50-50, right down the
< middle, right now." He said he hopes to make a decision by Wednesday.
< * * * *
< BASEBALL RECRUITING: The Longhorn baseball team got a commitment today
< from
< Scott Kazmir, 6-0, 170, of Houston Cypress Falls. Kazmir is the nation's
< top
< pitching prospect. He's a lefthander with a 97 mph fastball and good
< control.
< That's the good news. The bad news is that the pros will throw so much
< money
< at him that there is very little chance he will ever throw a pitch for
the
<
< Longhorns.
< * * * *
< My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.
< * * * *
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< 26
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< monthly
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<
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