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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #87
<
< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #87, Monday, August 27, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Brown Names Starters with Few Surprises
<
< Texas head coach Mike Brown named the starters Monday for Saturday
night's
<
< season-opening football game with New Mexico State, and there was only
one
<
< major surprise.
< That was at tight end where Bo Scaife and Brock Edwards were listed as
< co-starters. "I don't know who will run out there first," Brown said,
"but
<
< they'll both see plenty of action."
< He also said Tillman Holloway and Derrick Dockery are co-starters at left

< guard, but that was no surprise because they have battled back and forth
< throughout the pre-season practices.
< Junior Victor Ike, as expected, is the starting tailback, with super
< freshman
< Cedric Benson and big sophomore Ivan Williams listed as co-second
teamers.
<
< Brown also said all three tailbacks will play a lot.
< Senior Maurice Gordon, as expected, was tabbed to start at left defensive

< tackle. "We had to figure a way to get him on the field," Brown said.
< "That's
< why we moved him (from defensive end). He probably runs 4.6 or better and
< we
< think he's really going to be good for us."
< Brown also said Nathan Vasher and Ahmad Brooks will be the starting
< safeties
< with Dakarai Pearson backing up at both spots.
< The Longhorns are 42-point favorites over NM State for their 6 p.m. game,
< but
< Brown said the contest "is a great challenge for us. They should have
< beaten
< Louisville last week and Louisville was a 9-or-10-win team last year."
< Louisville went 9-3 last year and NM State had a lead at the half before
< two
< fumbles deep in Louisville territory were returned for touchdowns.
< Brown had a good time discussing the Longhorns at his Monday press
< conference. Talking about all the hype surrounding junior QB Chris Simms,
< he
< said, "Some think Chris Simms will win the Heisman and some think he
< shouldn't start."
< When someone mentioned that post-game comments in Oklahoma after the
< Sooners'
< opening win over North Carolina seemed to center more on Texas than on
the
<
< Sooners, he said, "A lot of the opposing teams talk more about us than
< they
< talk about themselves, and there is no question some of them hate us more

< than they like themselves."
< * * * *
< FOOTBALL NOTES: The Longhorns have the best opening game record in the
Big
<
< 12. In 108 years of playing college football, Texas is 88-17-3 in opening

< games. That's an .829 winning percantage. If the Horns hadn't gone 1-7 in

< openers between 1986 and 1993, that great percentage would be almost off
< the
< charts. . . the Horns' No. 5 national ranking in the AP poll is their
< highest
< pre-season rating since 1983. . . QB Chris Simms completed 28 of 42
passes
<
< (66.7%) for 328 yards and four touchdowns in the Longhorns' three
< scrimmages.
< He did not allow an interception in the scrimmages. . . True freshman LB
< Derrick Johnson led all defenders in the scrimmages with 20 tackles. . .
< Starting LB Lee Jackson probably will miss the opener with a turf toe and

< will be replaced by Tyrone Jones. He is the only starter who will be out
< unless someone else gets banged up this week.
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: The Longhorns apparently have targeted three wide
< receivers
< for two remaining slots and will take the first pair to commit. The three
< are
< Marquis Johnson, a national top 100 player from Champaign, Illinois, and
< two
< Texans - Biren Ealy of Cypress Falls and Anthony Wright of Klein Forest.
< Johnson lists the Horns No. 1 and might commit when he visits. He says he

< wants to visit UT in September. Wright also lists Texas as his top team,
< while Ealy is more wide open. . . CB Ricky Wilson of Port Arthur Lincoln
< is
< getting a lot of national attention because he is an outstanding cover
< corner
< with great speed and leaping ability - and good grades. That last factor
< sets
< him apart from several of the other top corner prospects. He lists
Florida
<
< State and Texas as his top two teams. . . If you are a real recruiting
fan
<
< who keeps a list of future prospects, pencil in Clay Broyles, 6-4, 235,
of
<
< Hallsville as a junior DE/TE who will be a big item in next year's
< recruiting
< wars. His coach says he is a top prospect on either side of the ball.
< * * * *
< 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
< both
< services via E-Mail). Send check to address at the top of page. I also
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< E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com.