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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax No. 100
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< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #100, Thursday, October 11, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Brown Says Benson Might Start Saturday at Oklahoma State
<
< Coach Mack Brown said Thursday freshman RB Cedric Benson "has had a good
< week
< of practice and we'll make a decision at gametime on whether he or Ivan
< (Williams) will start."
< Benson has run with the first team in practice all week after making only
< a
< cameo appearance in the loss to Oklahoma Saturday, and Brown said the
< coaches
< plan to use him more for the rest of the season.
< Benson has great acceleration through the line of scrimmage and the
< Longhorn
< offensive linemen can usually open a hole briefly against a good defense.
< He
< has a much better chance of getting through a small hole than the
< 240-pound
< Williams, who requires a step or two to get much acceleration.
< Brown also said DE Kaelen Thornton (sprained knee) and TB Victor Ike
< (bruised
< ribs) have not been able to practice this week and won't make the trip to

< Stillwater this weekend. He said DT Maurice Gordon, a former DE, will
move
<
< back to end at start in Thornton's place and he said sophomore DT Adam
< Doiron
< will start at tackle when Texas is in its base 4-3 defense.
< The Longhorns might return to a 4-3 at times against Oklahoma State
< Saturday,
< and they probably will use it a lot next week when a power-running
< Colorado
< team comes to Austin, but they have used a 3-4 most of the time in their
< last
< two games against pass oriented Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
< Brown said earlier in the week that several starters on offense were in
< danger of losing their jobs, but he softened that statement a little
< Thursday, saying, "We may rotate three guards and Derrick Dockery might
< play
< a little more at tackle and Jason Glynn might play a little more."
< What that means is a probable three-way rotation at guard between
Dockery,
<
< Antwan Kirk-Hughes and Tillmon Holloway, with Dockery sliding out to
< tackle
< to replace Robbie Doane at times, and a two-way rotation at center with
< Matt
< Anderson and Glynn splitting time.
< Brown also said the team has been practicing hard this week and trying to
< put
< the tough loss to Oklahoma behind them.
< "The fans don't have to get ready until Saturday," he said, "but the
< coaches
< and players have to start getting ready on Monday."
< Brown also was asked about a story in Thursday's Fort Worth Star Telegram

< alleging he telephoned the prosecutor in a sexual misconduct suit against

< former Shreveport Evangel head coach Dennis Dunn and offered to be a
< character witness for Dunn. A minor girl in Marshall has accused Dunn of
< improper sexual conduct.
< Brown said he would have only one comment on that and that comment was:
"I
<
< would be happy to be a character witness for Dennis Dunn, who has been a
< friend of mind for more than 20 years."
< * * * *
< RECRUITING NOTES: Add another big, fast linebacker to the list of
players
<
< Texas has offered a scholarship. He is Michael Williams, 6-3, 220, 4.6,
of
<
< Lindale, who is so fast he plays wide receiver on offense. Williams, who
< already has a qualifying test score, told me he has offers from Texas,
< Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Baylor, Minnesota and West Virginia. He also told me
< he
< probably will commit to someone in "the next couple of weeks." He also
< said
< he plans to attend the Texas-Colorado game on October 20. The Longhorns
< have
< a very good chance to get him. . . There are a lot of national top 100
< lists
< available, but I think one of the best is the Rivals 100 list on the
< internet. It ranks players from No. 1 to No. 100. Texas already has
< commitments from No. 21 WR Marquis Johnson of Champaign, Ill.; No. 80 DE
< Chase Pittman of Shreveport Evangel and No. 83 OL Neale Tweedie of Allen.
< The
< Longhorns also are in the running for 15 other players on the list. They
< are
< No. 2 RB Lorenzo Booker of Ventura, Cal., St. Bonaventure, No. 7. DT
< Roderique Wright of Alief Hastings, No. 11 QB Vincent Young of Houston
< Madison, No. 16 OL Justin Blalock of Plano East, No. 29 DE Bryan Pickryl
< of
< Jenks, Okla., No. 32 WR Robert Timmons of Flower Mound Marcus, No. 37 DE
< Larry Dibbles of Lancaster, No. 46 DE Zack Latimer of Aurora, Colo., No.
< 48
< LB Aaron Harris of North Mesquite, No. 49 DE Travis Leitko of The
< Woodlands,
< No. 59 TE Eric Winston of Midland Lee, No. 71 DT Marco Martin of
Mesquite,
<
< No. 75 Ath Edorian McCullough of North Garland, No. 87 RB Selvin Young of

< Jersey Village and No. 100 Ath DaBryan Blanton of Forney. They have at
< least
< a 50-50 shot at Wright, Young, Blalock, Timmons, Dibbles, Harris and
< Martin.
< * * * *
< My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.-
< * * * *
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