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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #76
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< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #76, Saturday, August 11, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Longhorns Have First Full-Team Practices; UT Ranked No. 5 by AP
<
< The Longhorns had their first two full-team practices Saturday, and coach

< Mack Brown said he is pleased with the way the players went all out in
< both
< drills.
< "We're doing it a little differently this year," Brown said, noting that
< he
< is alternating between two workouts a day and one workout a day. When he
< has
< two workouts, like he did Saturday, there is an early morning and a late
< evening workout. Then he follows that with a single workout at 3 p.m. the

< next day, like he is doing Sunday.
< "We haven't started well here," he said, pointing to four early-season
< losses
< since he has been at Texas. "It doesn't get as hot in North Carolina as
it
<
< does here, so we checked with some pro teams in hot-weather cities and
< we're
< doing what they do."
< He said all coaches are concerned about the football deaths that have
< occurred in pro and college football already this pre-season, and he said
< the
< early and late workouts should help players avoid losing so much fluid.
He
<
< has always had water breaks in practice and he is still having frequent
< water
< breaks.
< Brown talked about problem areas in the pre-season, and he mentioned
< three:
< (1) the loss of both starting defensive tackles, (2) the lack of a proven

< tailback, and (3) the necessity of finding two new kickers, one to do the

< punting and one to do the place kicking.
< He said sophomore Marcus Tubbs, who is close to 290 pounds and very
quick,
<
< played well last year when Shaun Rogers was hurt and looks good at one
< defensive tackle. Redshirt freshman Stevie Lee and sophomore Adam Doiron
< both
< worked some with the first team at the other tackle. Lee is coming off
< foot
< surgery, but showed no signs of weakness and looked good. Former
defensive
<
< end Maurice Gordon looked great as a pass-rushing tackle in the spring
and
< he
< still looks very quick and very formidable.
< Brown said he hopes junior Victor Ike will step up at tailback, and also
< said
< the coaches want to look at highly touted freshmen Cedric Benson. Ike
< worked
< very hard in the off season and is sporting some new muscles.
< He said JC transfer Brian Bradford is looking very good as the team
< punter,
< and said he is encouraged with the place-kicking of true freshman
walk-ons
<
< David Pino and Dusty Mangum
< Linebackers Reed Boyd and Marcus Wilkins worked at defensive end
Saturday.
<
< Brown said they will continue to work at linebacker, too, but might play
< some
< at end until O. J. McClintock returns. McClintock is out indefinitely
< after
< suffering slashed muscles and tendons when he accidentally rammed his
hand
<
< and arm though a window.
< * * * *
< Texas was ranked fifth in the nation in the pre-season Associated Press
< Top
< 25 Poll which was released Saturday. It was the Longhorns' highest
< pre-season
< ranking since being ranked No. 3 in 1983.
< The Horns received five first place votes and were one of five schools to

< earn votes for the top spot. Florida opens the season at No. 1, followed
< by
< Miami, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas, giving the Big 12 three of the top
< five
< spots.
< The Longhorns have been in the top 25 in 37 of 42 AP polls since head
< coach
< Mack Brown took over in December of 1997.
< The No. 5 ranking by the AP writers comes one week after the ESPN/USA
< Today
< Coaches and Football Writers Association of America tabbed UT No. 6 in
< their
< pre-season poll.
< One positive factor that gives this team a better chance to finish in the
< top
< 10 than Brown's previous teams at Texas is the overall depth. His second
< team
< at UT was 9-2 and on a roll when the wide receivers and starting QB Major

< Applewhite got hurt, sick or in the case of Kwame Cavil, got suspended.
It
<
< lost its last three games.
< This team has much better depth and is two deep in quality players at
most
<
< positions.
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: The state's top running back, Albert Hardy of Galena
< Park,
< was at Saturday morning's practice, and he drew a lot of attention from
< all
< the UT coaches. He looks at least as big as the 5-11, 225, he is supposed
< to
< be. He is a power runner deluxe with speed to take it to the outside. The

< offense UT has run since the present staff arrived is ideal for him. . .
< The
< state's top player, DT Rodrique Wright of Alief Hastings, attended one of
< the
< Thursday practices and he also drew lot of attention from the coaches.
One
<
< reason he is so highly rated (and I rated him highly before anyone else
< way
< back last September when he was just starting his junior year) is that b
< lockers don't slow him down very much. Single-teams, double-teams, even
< triple-teams are just minor nuisances for him. He stays so low and is so
< explosive that the best chance to avoid him is to run away from him as
< fast
< as possible. . . Two UT commitments also attended Longhorn practices this

< week. WR Dustin Miksch of Roud Rock Westwood was at the Saturday morning
< practice and LB Marcus Myers of Pflugerville Connally was at one of the
< Thursday drills.
< * * * *
< My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.
< * * * *
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