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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #63
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #63, Thursday, June 27, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Horns' 10th Pledge Comes From Allen Offensive Lineman with 22 Offers
<
< OL Neale Tweedie, 6-5, 260, 4.9, of Allen told me today he has 22
< scholarship
< offers "and I planned to look around a lot before I did anything, but
< Texas
< just kind of blew me away and I committed to coach Hardee McCrary Tuesday

< evening and coach (Mack) Brown Wednesday."
< "I didn't go to any camps, but I went to Notre Dame and Texas A&M and
< Texas
< to look around. I had planned to go to Oklahoma, too, to take a look, but

< Texas just really impressed me and I decided to go ahead and commit to
< Texas
< and get it all behind me."
< Tweedie said his top four schools were Texas, A&M, Notre Dame and OU, but
< he
< said he had 22 scholarship offers earlier this summer, and "I might have
< gotten one or two more since then, but all the schools I was interested
in
<
< were in that 22."
< "I really like the coaches and the players at Texas," he said. "The
< chemistry
< at Texas is just tremendous. I knew right away when I visited that's
where
< I
< wanted to be."
< Tweedie plays tackle at Allen, but said he wouldn't mind moving to guard
< or
< center. "I think they want me to play tackle," he said, "but I just want
< to
< play wherever I can help the most."
< He has very quick feet and is extremely athletic. He's very strong for
his
<
< size, too, and is an extremely aggressive blocker. He also is a varsity
< wrestler and has thrown the discus 179 feet.
< Tweedie also is a very good student, with a 3.7 GPA on a 4.0 scale and a

< 1080 SAT score.
< * * * *
< Tweedie is the Longhorns' tenth commitment this summer, joining 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.
< Texas is very close to getting commitment number 11. LB Brian Robison,
< 6-3,
< 245, 4.6, of Splendora, told me Wednesday night he has narrowed his
< choices
< to Texas and Houston, and is leaning the Longhorns' way. "I visited Texas
< A&M
< and LSU, too, and I had planned to visit Arkansas, but I decided Texas
and
<
< Houston are the two schools I really like, and I think I'll probably
< commit
< to Texas as soon as the Junior Olympics are over."
< Robison has thrown the shot 62-7, the discus 197-1 and the the javelin
< 172-10, and he has qualified for the Junior Olympic finals in Virginia
in
<
< late July.
< FOOTBALL NOTES: The Longhorn freshmen will report on August 6 and the
< varsity
< will report on August 9. That means the first freshman practice will be
on
<
< Tuesday, August 7, and the first practice by the entire squad will be on
< Friday, August 10. All of the practices are open until about a week
before
<
< the Sept. 1 opener against New Mexico State in Austin. . . All of the
< injured
< Longhorn football players except TE Artie Ellis appear to be completely
< recovered from their problems of last season. Ellis, who has had trouble
< with
< a stress fracture in his shin, might make it back in time for next
season,
<
< but he isn't ready to go full speed right now.
< * * * *
< BASKETBALL NOTES: Head coach Rick Barnes has promoted his administrative
< assistant, Russell Springmann, 31, to replace Ed Kohtala as his third
< assistant coach. Kohtala left to become head coach at Alma College in
< Michigan. Springmann has been with Barnes throughout his three years at
< Texas
< and has been active in on-campus recruiting (only two assistants can
< recruit
< off campus), has helped organize the summer camps and has performed many
< other duties on the basketball staff. . . Daniel Horton, 6-2, an
< outstanding
< shooting guard at Cedar Hill, has chosen Michigan over Texas and Florida.

< Shooting guard Bracey Wright, also 6-2, of The Colony, is one of the top
< recruits in the nation and Texas is among his leaders. The loss of Horton

< won't be a problem if Wright comes aboard. If Wright goes elsewhere,
< losing
< the top two shooting guards in Texas will force Barnes to look elsewhere
< for
< a top scoring guard.
< * * * *
< 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
<
< faxes and newsletter via E-Mail). Send check to address at the top of
< page.
< I also update my 900 number - 1-900-288-8839 - frequently with
recruiting
<
< news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com.