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Marcus Dupree Says Colleges Offered Him $250,000 Per Year and an Oil Well

Marcus Dupree had some interesting offers from college recruiters.

Marcus Dupree, subject of a 30 For 30 doc named The Best That Never Was, appeared on Highly Questionable with Dan Le Batard this afternoon to discuss what it was like being one of the most heavily recruited high school football players of all time. Dupree eventually signed with Oklahoma, but several major programs came knocking on his door. Le Batard and Co. wanted to know the details of the recruiting offers. Since it's been a few decades, Dupree spilled the beans on some of the more outrageous offers.

Dupree claims one school offered to pay him $250,000 per year to enroll as a student athlete. (Since Marcus Dupree enrolled at Oklahoma in 1982, someone please go ask Darren Rovell how that's adjusted for inflation. Thank you.) Le Batard tries to get sneaky and get Dupree to admit it was Texas, but Dupree still has some moves and didn't fall for it.

He then went on to say another school offered him an oil well, just a straight-up oil well, to play football. I don't know anything about oil, but I'm pretty sure that's a waaaaay better offer than the $250K annual salary. Dupree turned both these offers down because his mother, a schoolteacher, told him he could not accept them. After a dazzling freshman year as a Sooner, he transferred to Southern Miss, and then wound up kicking around in the USFL before having a brief stint with the Raiders in the early nineties. The lesson here is you should never listen to teachers, or moms.