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re: Why wasn't MSU or OM in play for Marcus Dupree?
Posted on 2/14/16 at 7:24 pm to Cdawg
Posted on 2/14/16 at 7:24 pm to Cdawg
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Because his pimp had a grudge against state and ole miss types. I also think he lived just outside of Hattiesburg and he was going to get his his no matter who came along or where he went. This is going off old timers speaking from years back.
Interesting. Makes since considering the "reverend" was trying to sucker him into USM after Dupree left OU.
Just hard for me to believe the 2 biggest state schools didn't have enough pull to overcome the preacher pimp
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Posted on 2/14/16 at 7:43 pm to stomp
quote:Steve Sloan at Ole Miss. Squeaky clean. Emory was at State. I don't think we had enough money to cheat. Bobby Collins (MSU graduate, by the way), dirty, dirty, dirty!
Just hard for me to believe the 2 biggest state schools didn't have enough pull to overcome the preacher pimp
Posted on 2/14/16 at 8:02 pm to stomp
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Just hard for me to believe the 2 biggest state schools didn't have enough pull to overcome the preacher pimp
This was less than 20 years after Kennedy sent the national guard to Ole Miss - Reverend Pimp was in his early adulthood when that was happening. And while the basketball team in '63 and the Holmes integration at MSU were good stories - the MSU types around Philadelphia weren't really fond of African Americans either.
And remember about this time two pretty good players had just came through Mississippi high schools and were guilted into going to in-state HBCUs - Walter Payton and Jerry Rice. Marcus wanted to be big time. His recruitment ended Jackson State's dominance of getting the best African American players in Mississippi.
IIRC, Jackson State has 3 or 4 NFL Hall of Famers, but none after the Dupree saga.
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