Marcus Dupree was back in familiar settings earlier this month, sitting in the bleachers at his alma mater.
He was back in Philadelphia with his friends, watching the Philadelphia-Neshoba Central football game and was more than pleased with his Tornadoes' 40-14 win.
But this was a working trip. He and a cameraman from ESPN were making the rounds. They were interviewing people who were part of Dupree's life in the early 1980s when he was at the top of every major college football program's recruiting list. He kept everyone guessing until the end when he signed with the Oklahoma Sooners.
It's part of a project ESPN is working on in conjunction with its 30-year anniversary. The network is making special films on what it considers to be its top 30 stories of all time.
Dupree's adventures into the college football recruiting world is one of those 30 stories. The network is retracing his steps in which author Willie Morris wrote a book entitled: "The Courting of Marcus Dupree."
Among the people interviewed were sports writer Billy Watkins; former college football coach Tom Goode, who started recruiting Dupree when he was a ninth grader; Tim Allen, Cecil Price Jr., Charles McAfee and others. More are expected to be interviewed in coming months.
"I thought everything went well," Dupree said. "We wrapped up filming Sunday and I'm back home in Shreveport. I'm not sure when we will be back but I expect it will be in the next couple of weeks."
No firm date has been set for the film to be completed or shown.
