Marcus Dupree 83 OU

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Anyone have video/vidcaps/pics of Dupree's final carry as a Sooner? Final moments, aisles were a sea of Red, helmet goes flying, exclimation point of a 28-16 win.....jog any memories?

Other than how damn fast Edwin Simmons was?
 
There is a great article on it over at Barking Carnival.. incorporating the ESPin 30 for 30 program. The third vidclip has 3 different angles on it. I'm still amazed that either Dupree or Peavy got up from it. That was the hit that knocked Dupree out of college football.
 
I tried to find it on Youtube once. I couldn't find it by itself, but I did find it as part of another video. It may have been a video about Marcus, but I think it was something to do with the game or season, perhaps even from the Oklahoma perspective.

Good luck. I kinda stumbled upon it.

P.S. - Did you watch the ESPN 30 For 30 special about Marcus Dupree last week? They showed the clips of Richard Peavy knocking him out of the game from a couple angles. That episode was replayed again last night on ESPN2. I'm sure they will show it again. Just keep checking their schedule.
 
I did not realize he was a Texas commit that switched late in the game to OU. The highlights from his freshman season were amazing. The ultimate "what could have been". I gotta admit, after watching the 30 for 30 last night, I felt really bad about how things turned out for him. He was too young and too good with too many people wanting a piece fo him for it to probably turn out any other way. Very sad.

And by the way, Switzer is a complete douche - which I already knew. I like how the double wide all of a sudden showed up at his mom's house.
 
I watched 30for 30, and I was disappointed that the filmmaker never explored WHY MD changed his commitment after visiting OU.

The doublewide showed up after Marcus has been on campus for a while.
 
I was hoping they wouldn't mention the cowboy boots he received at Shepler's on his trip to Austin. I know it's small potatoes compared to the other things he was getting, but if they mentioned that and nothing else, I wouldn't have been a happy booster.
 
About whether or not his mom got the double wide, someone's lying, I'm just not sure which party. If one school offered $250,000, there were a whole bunch of other offers on the table. If Marcus was ready to name names, it would have come out in the documentary.

I was at UT during this whole Marcus Dupree episode. After I graduated, I was working with a black woman who was from Mississippi. She grew up in the 50s and 60s, and one day she asked me if I had ever heard of Philadelphia, Mississippi. She was referring to the murder of the 3 civil rights workers, but I innocently responded, "Of course I have. That's where Marcus Dupree is from." She was not impressed.
 
was it just me or did they not really talk much about why he has no money. they briefly mentioned ken fairley managing MD's finances, then nothing. i woulda thought he has some money, it's not like he went mc hammer when he signed his contract or anything.
 
very interesting to compare Marcus and Edwin Simmons. Edwin may not have had quite the high school career Marcus had, but they both battled adversity in college that they had no idea were coming.

Can you imagine how well Edwin would have done had his legs been the same length? Edwin had problems with the law, I imagine he was incredibly depressed when he realized he had no future in football.

Meanwhile Marcus had only himself to blame for his problems. Give up on your career because you can't win the Heisman as a freshman? worst decision ever. Just go back to college, Norman or whereever, and learn to practice and win the Heisman as a soph.

what were those excuses about marcus not being healthy for the Texas game? I don't remember that.

And where was the OU medical team? They let Marcus be interviewed after the game, while he was suffering a concussion?

sad waste of money on a Dr. for sure.
 
Edwin's "problems with the law" were very, very minor, and not very different from what almost every college kid goes through at times. His football problem was knee injury. He has since led a simple but impressive small town life in his hometown, as a school superintendent, married to his high school sweetheart, and with successful children. His "where are they now" documentary would make you proud.

As for Marcus Dupree, those are the most impressive highlights I have ever seen. Amazing that it was basically one year. Can't think of anyone with that much size, speed, moves, balance and power. Maybe Bo Jackson. I was there at the OU game in 1983 for his last play, as I suppose a lot of you were.
 
I wish Marcus had turned over his check to his mother. At least then the money would have probably been used more for Marcus and the family. She sure wouldn't have been a worse investor.
 
VYfan, I just looked it up and you're very close. Edwin is a school board member in Hawkins.

I wonder what he does for a living?
 
I didn't mean to discount Edwin's life's success since, but what he got into during his time on campus wasn't what most people would call the typical college experience.
 
Well, I know one guy who got arrested in a fight at the bowling alley on S.Lamar who is a surgeon now. One who got caught stealing a police golf cart as a prank, who is now a pastor. One who, drunk, leaned on and broke a sink in a Taco Bell--making a huge flood, and the police came. He works on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We had people caught smoking dope in my dorm. My fraternity pledge class had to get picture of all of us in a group, naked, in front of the stadium and inside a sorority house courtyard. People stole golf course flags for pranks. Someone stole the Aggie dog. A group while I was there figured out how to get into the underground system under the university to steal tests at night, and eventually got caught. Some of them became high level Dell executives. There were numerous regular illegal gambling groups, both sports and poker. These days, not awful people. Underage drinking and driving was just normal, and when very young high school girls came to the parties, the law got broken. One person I knew was caught trying to steal a hurdle out of the stadium (back when it stayed open at night)--he was drunk. Cocaine, XTC, and dope were prevalent among people who now are quite law-abiding. When I was in law school, the illegal drug use was even more prevalent, with amphetamines added in. Girls who were supposed to be selling UT game programs (as a fundraiser for a UT sport) were short-counting them to pocket the large amounts of money, driving to Mexico to do a pot deal, and flipping it for even more money. Some of them are regular moms now. People put bubbles and/or paint into the fountains. Others drove to Mexico to go to boystown. The football team slept with hundreds of girls, often multiple a week, and abortion was the common form of contraception. How many parties did I go to where the house was completely trashed and the police came?

The ethic was "if it feels good, do it." It was a sometimes a godless free for all, where cynicism, sarcasm and nihilism was considered intellectual. We voted in the Arts and Sausages party to eliminate student government.

Lots of guys I knew somehow "hooked up" with "older women," which usually meant the ancient age of 32, maybe married. (That was a status symbol for some guys.) I bet if their husbands came home unexpectedly, they ran into the backyard and tried to get away undiscovered, and probably wouldn't have explained the truth to whoever asked. Perhaps they would have been unclothed and had no explanation for why they were there.

Anyway, Simmons may be fun to make fun of, but he wasn't an armed robber, a felon, a gangster, a thief, or whatever. Not Ramonce Taylor. And yes, Edwin's worst day is in line with the "worst" I ever did, or most of the people I knew in college.
 
I've only recently heard that Edwin Simmons' legs were of unequal length. Back in the day, I always heard **** like his knees or knee caps didn't "track" properly (whatever the Hell that means) and that led to the first knee injury. Does anyone know exactly what type of knee injury or surgery Edwin had? I don't think I ever heard it discribed as an ACL, MCL, etc.

I also remember hearing different accounts of his being caught naked in the backyard, everything from it involving a random girl living at home to a prominent booster's daughter to a coach's daughter to a coach's wife. It's probably like any story that gets embellished over time, but I'd be curious if anyone knows the straight ****. I knew a coach's daughter (different sport) who was off-the-charts hot... hmmmm.
 
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