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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #86
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #86, Friday, August 24, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Freshman CB Ross Leaves Team, Plans to Return in January
<
< Longhorn freshman CB Aaron Ross of Tyler has left the Longhorn football
< squad to clear up some NCAA Clearinghouse issues, head coach Mack Brown
< announced Friday.
< "I have some Clearinghouse issues I need to get resolved in order to
< rejoin
< the team," Ross said. "I'm going to get those issues worked out so I can

< return to Texas in January."
< LB Aurmon Satchell of Denver had the same problem a year ago and he is
< back
< on the team now and contending for playing time as a freshman. Hopefully,

< Ross will work out the problems, as Satchell did, and return to the team.
< If he gets the problems resolved by January, he can go through spring
< training with the team next year.
< Federal laws prohibit university officials discussing academic problems,
< so
< no reason was given for Ross leaving the team. However, it probably is
< either
< an improvement in the SAT or ACT score that was disallowed as being
< excessive
< or a course that Tyler High School officials counted as a core course and
< the
< Clearinghouse folks didn't think was a core course.
< Defensive coordinator Carl Reese said last week that Ross probably would
< be
< play in the Longhorns' first game and had a good chance to be his dime
< back
< (sixth defensive back in passing situations). Two other true freshmen,
< Michael Huff and Cedric Griffin, will be competing for that job now.
< The first day of classes at UT will be Wednesday and the Longhorns will
< open
< the 2000 football season on Saturday, September 1, vs. New Mexico State
< at 6
< p. m. in Austin in a game that will be nationally televised by the Fox
< Network.
< * * * *
< FOOTBALL NOTES: Head Coach Mack Brown has closed all regular season
< practices
< to the press. Reporters will be allowed to talk to Brown, his assistants
< and
< players after practice. This is a departure from last season when
< reporters
< were allowed to attend practice every Tuesday. During the season, the big

< practice days are Tuesday and Wednesday. . . With freshman Cedric Benson
< looking even better than expected and sophomore Ivan Williams displaying
< his
< usual spring brilliance in the fall, too, the Longhorns are in much
better
<
< shape at running back than any of us had a right to expect. Junior Victor
< Ike
< is the starter, and he looks bigger and stronger than he has been in the
< past, but Benson and Williams will play a lot, too. . . Senior Maurice
< Gordon
< and freshman Stevie Lee had very good performances in the final scrimmage

< Wednesday night and they should be able to make the problems at defensive

< tackle go away. Sophomore Marcus Tubbs is solid at one DT, and Gordon,
Lee
<
< and sophomore Adam Doiron will all be able to help, giving the team four
< capable tackles. . . Look for a lot more four-wideout and two-tight end
< formations with just one running back this season because third WR Sloan
< Thomas and second TE Brock Edwards are better than most teams' starters.
.
< .
< The Longhorns will have the best receiving corps (wide receivers and
tight
<
< ends) and one of the best defensive secondaries in college football. They

< also will have a fine pass-blocking offensive line, and a very good
< defensive
< line. That means the season's success will depend on how the offensive
< line
< blocks for the run, and how well QB Chris Simms, the linebackers and the
< special teams perform.
< RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns are in great shape with several national
< top
< 100 players and two of them, WR Marquis Johnson of Champaign, Ill., and
DE
<
< Chase Pittman of Shreveport Evangel, might make early September
decisions.
< .
< . Texas still has 12 commitments. They are DTs Sonny Davis, 6-1, 320,
5.0,
< of
< Gulf Coast JC in Mississippi and formerly of Austin Lanier, Earl
Anderson,
<
< 6-4, 270, 4.8, of San Marcos, Lyle Sendlein, 6-4, 260, 4.8, of
Scottsdale
<
< Chaparral, the two-time defending Class 4A champion in Arizona, and Tully

< Janszen, 6-4, 255, 4.78, of Keller; LBs Brian Robison, 6-3, 245, 4.6, of
< Splendora and Marcus Myers, 6-3, 220, 4.5, of Pflugerville Connally; OLs
<
< Brett Valdez, 6-4, 310, 5.1, of Brownwood and Neale Tweedie, 6-5, 260,
< 4.9,
< of Allen; 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/Ath Clint Haney, 5-11, 190,

< 4.27 of Smithson Valley. Davis was on all the national top 100 lists last

< year, and Anderson, Sendlein, Valdez, Tweedie and Thomas have been on
some
< of
< them this year.
< * * * *
< 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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