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Marcus Depree vs. Nico Iamaleava
Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:40 pm
Who got screwed over harder by his advisor/agent? What other football players made multi-million dollar mistakes because of greed?
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:50 pm to captdalton
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:54 pm to captdalton
Dupree's knees screwed him over more than anything.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 3:06 pm to captdalton
Completely different situations and circumstances. Not even in the same stratosphere. I doubt that a book will be written lama as was about Marcus.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:20 pm to Faurot fodder
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Dupree's knees screwed him over more than anything.
Dupree repeatedly showing up at Oklahoma either late, out of shape, or both and then quitting on Oklahoma mid-way through his second season hurt Dupree more than anything. That cost him a year and a half of eligibility so he couldn’t play college football and he wasn’t yet eligible for the NFL. That forced him to play for the USFL on artificial turf. That is when he injured his knee.
Had he stayed at Oklahoma and stayed in shape he would have been an All-American three years in a row; he was second team as a true freshman even after not starting until the seventh game of the season; and been a top 10 draft pick.
No, had he not listened to Kenneth Fairley to come back to Mississippi, stayed at Oklahoma and just given a modicum of effort, his life and career would have been completely different.
Instead he is driving an 18 wheeler and tied up in the big Mississippi welfare scandal.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:26 pm to Godawgs4
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I doubt that a book will be written lama as was about Marcus.
I bet there will be multiple books written about the Wild West NIL days and/or the downfall of the NCAA. Iamaleava will be a big part of that as it was the Tennessee lawsuit over his eligibility that was the last domino to fall in the string of court cases that crippled the NCAA’s ability to regulate the sport.
I don’t know if there will be a book written specifically about the Iamaleava situation; I think that depends on how his situation plays out; but he will be a big part in books detailing the downfall of the NCAA and college football as we knew it.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:33 pm to captdalton
He would have been all- American and a national title winner today it says it haunts him . He would have had it all if it wasn’t for his injury. He still made it to the nfl . For Nico it’s just a money situation he isn’t half the talent Dupree was.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:43 pm to captdalton
I met Willie Morris and had him sign his book. I thought it would be cool to have Marcus sign it as well, but Marcus declined. He said he would sign a football, but not the book. From what I had always heard over the years, Willie’s book was factual.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:58 pm to morganwadefan
Was that book good? Or was it just a condemnation of Caucasians and the south like I would expect from Willie Morris?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 8:09 pm to Faurot fodder
Dupree was never the same after Richard Peavy moved him onto Dream St. permenatly.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 10:13 pm to captdalton
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Was that book good
I thought it was good. Willie published it in 1983. He talked to coaches, recruiters, teachers, friends and family of Marcus. I honestly think Willie wrote it as a true and accurate description of Marcus’ recruitment.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:10 pm to captdalton
Fairley was always bad ju-ju.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:14 pm to captdalton
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Marcus Depree
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Moron.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:27 pm to SEC Doctor
Clicked on thread just to see what dumbshit comment Mulkey Ma’am had left this time. Was not disappointed. Free MetarieMauler! Free MulkeyMaam!
What are you going to pick for your next username?
What are you going to pick for your next username?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:28 pm to captdalton
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Clicked on thread just to see what dumbshit comment Mulkey Ma’am had left this time. Was not disappointed. Free MetarieMauler! Free MulkeyMaam! What are you going to pick for your next username?
Nice melt, because you are too dumb to know how to spell a name correctly.
Inbred moron.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:33 pm to morganwadefan
I will keep an eye our for a copy. I know Morris is well respected as an author, but damn he was so far over to the left that even Texas-Austin thought he was an extremist and nudged him out as editor of their paper. I have generally avoided his stuff because I don’t want to spend money just to have someone tell me I am a horrible person because I am a white male who was born in the south.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 11:33 pm to SEC Doctor
You are so mad right now.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 3:34 am to Victor R Franko
I was there and watched him wobble off the field. He was literally knocked the frick out by Peavy!
Posted on 4/16/25 at 5:26 am to captdalton
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I will keep an eye our for a copy. I know Morris is well respected as an author, but damn he was so far over to the left that even Texas-Austin thought he was an extremist and nudged him out as editor of their paper.
Then you need to be warned that Morris' book spends a lot of time juxtaposing Dupree's recruitment as a young Black Superstar high school player with the atmosphere there in Philadelphia from two decades before when the three civil rights workers were murdered there.
So if you don't like being exposed to "white guilt" type of stuff... you are now warned.
However it is fascinating in the sense that it talks about how one of the actual murders Deputy Cecil Price's son is a teammate of Dupree and how Cecil actually was friends with Dupree and his family.
There are also some references to Ole Miss being stigmatized by the Meredith situation as far as recruiting Black players (which IMO was true at that time)... in the book.
but to a great degree the book describes how far racial relations had come in 18 year in Philadelphia as everyone in town was rooting for Marcus.
As for Marcus himself? At the end of the day... he was clinically depressed and homesick at OU and couldn't handle the pressure of being basically the face of the franchise. He was a good guy. Didn't like to work hard at practice... but likeable. And I say this knowing OU people who were involved with him both on and off the field.
In retrospect.... Marcus should have stayed home and signed with Southern Miss, or State where he could have played outside of the national spotlight so much and could have jumped in the car to go home any time he needed to.
But once he got to OU... he shouldn't have listened to Fairley and should have stuck it out there.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 6:08 am to captdalton
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That forced him to play for the USFL on artificial turf.
?? He played on artificial turf at Oklahoma.
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