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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #81
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #81, Saturday, August 18, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Running Game, Offensive Line Look Stout in Second Scrimmage
<
< When you have first-team guys going against second-team guys, it's hard
to
<
< get a real feel for how things are progressing, but I am going to predict

< right now that the Longhorns are going to be much better at running the
< ball
< in big games this season than they did last year.
< That is not going out on a really big limb, because the Horns simply had
< no
< rushing game in big games last season.
< But the reasons I think they will be able to run the ball better when
they
<
< need to this year are based on three sound reasons:
< 1. The scheme is better. The team is working more on run blocking and has

< diversified to the extent that it's hard to predict what the offense will
< do.
< Last year, it seemed there were only two running plays - tailback off
left
<
< tackle and tailback off right tackle. Coach Mack Brown also is more
< determined to make the running game more dependable.
< 2. The offensive line is more experienced and healthier. Guard Antwan
< Kirk-Hughes is an outstanding lineman when he is healthy, but he had a
bad
<
< shoulder all last season. Guard-tackle Derrick Dockery also is very
good,
<
< but he lost 40 pounds last season when he had a viral infection he
< couldn't
< shake. Both of them are healthy and it is making a lot of difference in
< the
< quality of offensive line play.
< 3. The arrival of heralded recruit Cedric Benson has raised the level of
< play
< of the other tailbacks. Benson has already shown he will be one of the
< mainstays of the running game. He's powerful, fast, elusive, durable and
< has
< the field vision that all great running backs have, which means he sees
< the
< hole and, if there is no hole, he sees the softest spot and hits it with
< lightning speed. Ivan Williams, a 245-pound tank every spring and a
< 245-pound
< patsy every fall, has showed up in his tank form this fall. He has been
< very
< impressive, running with speed, power and determination. The starting
< tailback, speedster Victor Ike, is sporting new muscles and is running
< with
< more determination and consistency. He also is getting to run some
sweeps.
<
< With Ike in the backfield, sweeps can be deadly and they also can keep
the
<
< defense from concentrating its forces between the tackles. Look for all
< three
< guys to get close to equal time, at least early in the season.
< Okay, enough of the analysis, let's talk about the scrimmage. Junior QB
< Chris
< Simms completed six of 10 passes for 72 yards and two touchdownhs, all
< against the second-team defense. He would have been three-for-three in
< touchdowns, but he slightly overthrew WR Sloan Thomas, who was wide open,
< on
< his third and final drive.
< Coach Mack Brown worked the starters only about 30 plays in the 100-play
< scrimmage, saying he wanted to look at the reserves to determine which
< ones
< need to be move up and which ones need to be demoted.
< Senior QB Major Applewhite, working with the second team against the
< first-team defense, completed 5 of 9 passes for 50 yardes, with one
< interception. Redshirt freshman QB Chance Mock was 2 of 6 for 27 yards,
< but
< he was very impressive with his running. For a 6-2, 220-pound
quarterback,
< he
< has remarkable speed.
< Williams led the rushing with 9 carries for 32 yards, followed by Sneezy
< Beltran with 9 for 31, Benson 7 for 23 and Ike 3 for 18. Benson already
is
<
< the best of the group at making something out of nothing. It takes a
< head-on
< tackle to get him down and he's difficult to hit head on.
< Sophomore WRs B. J. Johnson and Roy Williams caught the TD passes from
< Simms.
< Johnson's was a 38-yard TD play and Williams' catch was a seven-yarder.
< Defensively, ends Kalen Thornton and Cory Redding and freshman linebacker

< Derrick Johnson were outstanding.
< The Longhorns open the season two weeks from today and most of the
< starting
< positions are set.
< Nine starters return on offense and Ike will be the starter at tailback.
< At
< left tackle, the job is still open. Dockery might slide over to tackle.
He
<
< has been working at tackle and guard. If he moves to tackle, Tillman
< Holloway
< will start at guard in his place. Robbie Doane and Alfio Randall also are

< trying to win the starting job at left tackile.
< Eight starters are back on defense, but safety Lee Jackson has moved to
< linebacker, creating another open position. The Horns have to replace two

< starting tackles and two starting safeties, with Jackson's move.
Sophomore
<
< Marcus Tubbs started several games at tackle last season and will be a
< starter against New Mexico State. Sophomore Adam Doiron and redshirt
< freshman
< Stevie Lee are battling for the other tackle spot. Senior Maurice Gordon
< will
< start against passing teams.
< At the safety spots, the coaches are alternating senior Ahmad Brooks and
< sophomores Nathan Vasher and Dakarai Pearson.
< It looks like freshman walk-on Dusty Mangum has won the place-kicking
job.
< He
< has been very accurate up to 45 yards. JC transfer Brian Bradley is the
< punter and walk-on TE Cullen Loeffler has been doing a fine job aof deep
< snapping.. Ike and Williams will be the primary kickoff returners and
< Vasher
< is the top punt returner.
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns have stepped up their recruiting of WR
< Biren
< Ealy, 6-4, 195, 4.48, of Cypress Falls. He has great leaping ability to
go
<
< with his tall frame. . . They also have made a lot of headway with Ath
< DaBryan Blanton of Forney, who might be the nation's fastest football
< player
< after that smoking 20.37 fully automatic clocking in breaking the state
< 200-meter record at the state track meet. He's a high school RB, but at
< 5-11,
< 165, will be a WR or DB in college. He has great hands to go with that
< awesome speed.
< * * * *
< Editor's Note: This is my 81st e-mail in this series, which extends
< through
< November 30. It looks like I'll probably do at least 40 more between now
< and
< November 30, which would give you at least 121 e-mail/faxes. Since I
< guarantee I'll do 99, and have never done fewer than 104, I think that's
a
<
< best buy for all of you. Hope you think so, too. If you do, talk a few
< Longhorn friends into giving me a try. I can always use more subscribers.
< As
< long as Coach Brown is doing that early recruiting, I think I'll probably

< always have at least 110 a year and it'll probably be closer to 120.
< * * * *
< 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

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< 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
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