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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #77
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #77, Monday, August 13, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Brown Pleased With Team's Conditioning, Attitude
<
< Coach Mack Brown said Monday the Longhorn players showed up in great
< condition and have worked very hard during the first week of pre-season
< football practice.
< He also said he is very encouraged by the work of freshmen walk-on
kickers
<
< David Pino and Dusty Mangum, who have been pretty consistent on short and

< medium-range field goals. Heading into two-a-day workouts, he said
finding
< a
< good placekicker was one of the keys to having a good season. Pino and
< Mangum
< seldom miss inside 40 yards, and he said that "is very encouraging."
< Brown said the players are hungry to have a great season, and he said the

< bowl loss to Oregon probably has contributed to that hunger. "I think
< ending
< the season on a losing note has made some of our young players hungrier,"
< he
< said, noting that sophomore WRs Williams, B. J. Johnson and Sloan Thomas
< realize they have to work hard every day to get better.
< "They were tremendous as true freshman and helped this team win nine
< games,"
< he said, "but they are bigger and stronger and more experienced now and
< they
< can take it to another level this year."
< True freshman CB Cedric Griffin of San Antonio Holmes had missed several
< practices with a sprained ankle, but he had an impressive outing in
Monday
<
< morning's practice, covering super sophomore WR Roy Williams like a
< blanket
< on several successive plays.
< When I asked new DB coach Duane Akina about Griffin's performance, he
< grinned
< and said, "Hey, you watch what's going on. That's good. I thought all you

< guys did was take notes."
< He said Griffin and all the other freshmen DBs have talent and are
working
<
< hard.
< True freshman DT Kaelen Jakes continues to be impressive in the
one-on-one
<
< pass-rushing drills. He has been almost unstoppable against all the top
< offensive linemen in that drill. At 255 pounds, he is light for a tackle,
< but
< he shows great pass-rushing skills.
< Junior DE Cory Redding, who led the team in sacks last season with 6.5,
< has
< developed some new moves to get around blockers and he and fellow DE
Kalen
<
< Thornton, who started nine games last year as a true freshman, both have

< looked very good. Brown said the two young defensive ends are "both
bigger
<
< and stronger and more experienced now, and they can still run. We are
< counting on them to be even more productive this season, and they have
< been
< very productive in the past."
< Linebacker Reed Boyd, who has been working with the defensive ends, also
< is
< an accomplished pass rusher.
< The players won't be in full pads until their Wednesday afternoon
workout,
<
< but they are wearing helmets and shoulder pads and they have been hitting

< each other pretty hard at times.
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns probably will get a commitment from WR
< Marquis Johnson of Champaign, Ill., the weekend of the season opener
< against
< New Mexico State, and they probably will find out the following weekend,
< when
< they play North Carolina, if they are going to get DE Chase Pittman of
< Shreveport Evangel. Johnson plans to take his official visit to UT the
< August
< 30 weekend and see the Horns' Sept. 1 opener against NM State. "I can see

< myself in burnt orange," he told me, adding that he might commit on that
< visit. He also said there is no one close to the Longhorns right now.
< Pittman
< has narrowed his choices to Texas and LSU, and the Longhorns have
< dedicated
< the North Carolina game to the memory of Cole Pittman, Chase's older
< brother, who was killed in an automobile accident in February while he
was
<
< returning to Austin to participate in spring football practice. Cole
< Pittman
< was a promising sophomore defensive tackle at the time of his tragic
< death.
< If Chase Pittman doesn't commit to the Horns that weekend or right after
< that
< weekend, I think their chances diminish considerably. . . With 12
< commitments
< already, the Longhorns have to be pretty selective about the recruits
they
<
< take to fill their final dozen or so spots. Look for the most of the
final
<
< spots to go to defensive linemen. . . Kasey Studdard, the national top
100
<
< lineman from Highlands Ranch, Colo., is a dominating defensive tackle and
< is
< being recruited by lots of schools, including Texas, for his defensive
< skills. But he also is a tremendous prospect as an offensive guard or
< center.
< He is one of the bet blockers I have seen on tape this year.
< * * * *
< A bunch of Longhorn football players are going to be at the gates for the

< Round Rock Express game Saturday night collecting on behalf of the Cole
< Pittman Memorial Fund. This is the fund that directly benefits
Shreveport
<
< Evangel High School and will go to build their fieldhouse and the statue
< of
< Cole to be put in front. The players will include Chance Mock, Cory
< Redding,
< Stevie Lee, O. J. McClintock, Chad Stevens, Cullen Loeffler and a few
< more.
< No one needs to be reminded who Cole was and what a special person he was
< to
< the whole Longhorn family.
< It will be an informal event. Lots of Longhorn players will be there in
< their jerseys between 4 and 5 p. m. They'll be at the gates with buckets
< to
< accept donations from about 6 p.m. until game-time at 7 PM. Marc
Pittman,
<
< Cole's dad, will be coming in to town and will throw out the first pitch
< for
< the game.
< * * * *
< 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
<
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< both
< services via E-Mail). Send check to address at the top of page. I also
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