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> -----Original Message-----
> From:         TruOrange@aol.com [SMTP:TruOrange@aol.com]
> Sent:         Monday, October 22, 2001 9:22 PM
> To:           TruOrange@aol.com
> Subject:           True Orange E-Mail/Fax #103
>
> True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
> Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #103, Monday, October 22, 2001
> Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
> Phone
> 512-795-8536
>
> Horns Favored by 20 at Missouri; Baylor Game Set for 11:30 & TV
>
> The Longhorns are favored by 20 points for their 1 p.m. game Saturday at
> Missouri. There will be no TV for the game, contrary to earlier
> announcements. Isn't it ironic that the longest road trip of the year
will
> be
> the Longhorn's first game this year to fail to be televised? So much for
> Texas' legendary clout with the TV networks.
> But the road game at Baylor the following week has been set for an 11:30
> p.m.
> kickoff and will be televised by  Fox Syndication. Check your local
> listings
> to see who will televise the game.
> A kickoff time for Texas' final home game with Kansas on Saturday,
> November
> 10 has yet to be set.  The Longhorns season finale at Texas A&M  on
> Friday,
> November 23, will kick off at 11 a.m. and be broadcast  nationally on ABC

> sports.
> * * * *
> Coach Mack Brown said Monday the Longhorn players and coaches have taken
> note
> of the rash of upsets around the country and are determined to take care
> of
> their business. He also said this Longhorn team "has been as good as the
> teams we had at North Carolina, but the question is how they finish. We
> finished strong at North Carolina."
> He said he has told the Longhorn players they have the ability to win the

> rest of their games if they show up and play hard every week.
> * * * *
> The first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings were announced Monday
> and
> Texas was ranked No. 6 behind five teams with perfect records. The BCS
> standings are like golf in that the lowest score is the best score.
> Oklahoma
> came in at No. 1 in the first standings at 3.06, followed by Nebraska at
> 6.40, UCLA at 8.34, Miami at 12.01, Virginia Tech at 13.88, Texas at
> 15.35,
> Michigan at 15.91, Maryland at 21.29, Tennessee at 22.07 and Washington
> State
> at 23.05 to round out the top 10.
> One of the top two will drop this week because OU and Nebraska meet in
> Lincoln. Miami and Virginia Tech also clash in the final weeki of the
> regular
> season, so at least two of the teams above Texas are certain to lose.
> Under the BCS formula, the top four teams in the final standings are
> guaranteed berths in one of the four BCS Bowls, which are the Rose,
> Orange,
> Fiesta and Sugar. The Rose Bowl will get the national title game this
> year.
> If Texas wins out, the Longhorns probably will wind up in New Orleans in
> the
> Sugar Bowl.
> Coach Brown said, "This is the time of year when polls finally begin to
> matter and we are really excited to be in the mix for national honors.
> This
> team has earned that respect, and with all the football left to play, who

> knows what will happen?"
> "What we have to do is to keep improving, and concetnrate on the next
> game,"
> he said. "You can't win the the rest unless you win the next one. And if
> we
> win the rest, we have a chance for some very good things to happen. But
we
>
> have to beat Missouri Saturday on the road, and that's the only thing we
> can
> control this week."
> * * * *
> RECRUITING NOTES: WR Robert Timmons of Flower Mound Marcus committed to
> Florida Monday, and LB Michael Williams of Lindale said he is committed
to
>
> Oklahoma, but wants to visit Texas and Minnesota and possibly Texas Tech
> "to
> be sure." Texas had offered Williams and the Longhorns are continuing to
> try
> to recruit him. The Horns had not offered Timmons because of some
> off-field
> problems he has had, but they were considering offering him at the end of
> the
> season and still might do so if he appears interested. . . The Longhorns
> still have 16 commitments, but one of them, LB Garnet Smith of Arlington
> Lamar is in the same shape as Michael Williams. He says he is committed
to
>
> Texas, but wants to take some visits to be be sure.
> * * * *
> BASKETBALL RECRUITING: Brad Buckman, the 6-8 power forward at Austin
> Westlake
> who is a national top 50 recruit, told me tonight all the reports that he
> has
> already decided to attend North Carolina "just aren't true. I'm trying to

> decide between Texas and North Carolina and it's 50-50, right down the
> middle, right now." He said he hopes to make a decision by Wednesday.
> * * * *
> BASEBALL RECRUITING: The Longhorn baseball team got a commitment today
> from
> Scott Kazmir, 6-0, 170, of Houston Cypress Falls. Kazmir is the nation's
> top
> pitching prospect. He's a lefthander with a 97 mph fastball and good
> control.
> That's the good news. The bad news is that the pros will throw so much
> money
> at him that there is very little chance he will ever throw a pitch for
the
>
> Longhorns.
> * * * *
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