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                                         Subject:     FW: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #63
                    07/05/01
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:         TruOrange@aol.com [SMTP:TruOrange@aol.com]
> Sent:         Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:49 PM
> To:           TruOrange@aol.com
> Subject:           True Orange E-Mail/Fax #63
>
> True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
> Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #63, Thursday, June 27, 2001
> Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
> Phone
> 512-795-8536
>
> Horns' 10th Pledge Comes From Allen Offensive Lineman with 22 Offers
>
> OL Neale Tweedie, 6-5, 260, 4.9, of Allen told me today he has 22
> scholarship
> offers "and I planned to look around a lot before I did anything, but
> Texas
> just kind of blew me away and I committed to coach Hardee McCrary Tuesday

> evening and coach (Mack) Brown Wednesday."
> "I didn't go to any camps, but I went to Notre Dame and Texas A&M and
> Texas
> to look around. I had planned to go to Oklahoma, too, to take a look, but

> Texas just really impressed me and I decided to go ahead and commit to
> Texas
> and get it all behind me."
> Tweedie said his top four schools were Texas, A&M, Notre Dame and OU, but
> he
> said he had 22 scholarship offers earlier this summer, and "I might have
> gotten one or two more since then, but all the schools I was interested
in
>
> were in that 22."
> "I really like the coaches and the players at Texas," he said. "The
> chemistry
> at Texas is just tremendous. I knew right away when I visited that's
where
> I
> wanted to be."
> Tweedie plays tackle at Allen, but said he wouldn't mind moving to guard
> or
> center. "I think they want me to play tackle," he said, "but I just want
> to
> play wherever I can help the most."
> He has very quick feet and is extremely athletic. He's very strong for
his
>
> size, too, and is an extremely aggressive blocker. He also is a varsity
> wrestler and has thrown the discus 179 feet.
> Tweedie also is a  very good student, with a 3.7 GPA on a 4.0 scale and a

> 1080 SAT score.
> * * * *
> Tweedie is the Longhorns' tenth commitment this summer, joining LB Marcus

> Myers, 6-3, 220, 4.5, of Pflugerville Connally; 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/Athlete Clint Haney, 5-11, 190, 4.27 of Smithson Valley; OL Brett
> Valdez,
> 6-4, 310, 5.1, of  Brownwood, and DTs Sonny Davis, 6-1, 320, 5.0, of Gulf

> Coast JC in Mississippi, Earl Anderson, 6-4, 270, 4.8, of San Marcos and
> Lyle
> Sendlein, 6-4,  260, 4.8, of Scottsdale Chaparral, the two-time defending

> Class 4A champion in Arizona.
> Texas is very close to getting commitment number 11. LB Brian Robison,
> 6-3,
> 245, 4.6, of Splendora, told me Wednesday night he has narrowed his
> choices
> to Texas and Houston, and is leaning the Longhorns' way. "I visited Texas
> A&M
> and LSU, too, and I had planned to visit Arkansas, but I decided Texas
and
>
> Houston are the two schools I really like, and I think I'll probably
> commit
> to Texas as soon as the Junior Olympics are over."
> Robison has thrown the shot 62-7, the discus 197-1 and the the javelin
> 172-10, and he has qualified for the Junior Olympic finals in Virginia
in
>
> late July.
> FOOTBALL NOTES: The Longhorn freshmen will report on August 6 and the
> varsity
> will report on August 9. That means the first freshman practice will be
on
>
> Tuesday, August 7, and the first practice by the entire squad will be on
> Friday, August 10. All of the practices are open until about a week
before
>
> the Sept. 1 opener against New Mexico State in Austin. . . All of the
> injured
> Longhorn football players except TE Artie Ellis appear to be completely
> recovered from their problems of last season. Ellis, who has had trouble
> with
> a stress fracture in his shin, might make it back in time for next
season,
>
> but he isn't ready to go full speed right now.
> * * * *
> BASKETBALL NOTES: Head coach Rick Barnes has promoted his administrative
> assistant, Russell Springmann, 31, to replace Ed Kohtala as his third
> assistant coach. Kohtala left to become head coach at Alma College in
> Michigan. Springmann has been with Barnes throughout his three years at
> Texas
> and has been active in on-campus recruiting (only two assistants can
> recruit
> off campus), has helped organize the summer camps and has performed many
> other duties on the basketball staff. . . Daniel Horton, 6-2, an
> outstanding
> shooting guard at Cedar Hill, has chosen Michigan over Texas and Florida.

> Shooting guard Bracey Wright, also 6-2, of The Colony, is one of the top
> recruits in the nation and Texas is among his leaders. The loss of Horton

> won't be a problem if Wright comes aboard. If Wright goes elsewhere,
> losing
> the top two shooting guards in Texas will force Barnes to look elsewhere
> for
> a top scoring guard.
> * * * *
> My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.
> * * * *
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