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The Oklahoman Does a Story on the Tragic Incident Desean Brown Deeply Regrets

December 22, 2021
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STILLWATER – Last Wednesday Oklahoma State signed Choctaw High School standout defensive end Desean Brown to a letter of intent to play football on full scholarship for the Cowboys. The Oklahoman has now released a story on Brown on what had to be the worst mistake of his life. However, it was a tragic incident that Oklahoma State felt should not destroy Brown’s future.

The Oklahoman story has many more details as they were able to obtain the report from the Moore Police Dept.

It was March 14 of this year; Brown was speeding, well over the posted limit, on Eastern Ave. and he hit a youngster on a bicycle and that youngster was killed. Brown was not under the influence of alcohol or any illegal substance. He was driving too fast. He was at fault. Since Brown was a juvenile and 17-years-old at the time his name was not released to the public. The continued court involvement and records were sealed. Brown was placed under the Youthful Offender Act in Oklahoma.

The Youthful Offender Act allows teenagers charged with serious crimes the opportunity for release into the community if they complete a treatment program. It gives a sentencing alternative for those teenagers, rather than dealing with them purely as a juvenile or as an adult. The purpose of the Youthful Offender Act is to better ensure the public safety by holding youths accountable for the commission of serious crimes, while affording courts methods of rehabilitation for those youths the courts determine, at their discretion, may be amenable to such methods. It is the further purpose of the Youthful Offender Act to allow those youthful offenders whom the courts find to be amenable to rehabilitation by the methods prescribed in the Youthful Offender Act to be placed in the custody or under the supervision of the Office of Juvenile Affairs for the purpose of accessing the rehabilitative programs provided by that Office.

Brown was charged vehicular manslaughter. He pleaded guilty and that was later amended to nolo contendre or no contest. He has done everything the judge in the case asked him to do.  

Brown hasn’t openly spoken about the situation, but those close to him say it is something he thinks about every day and has much remorse over. He has said he would trade places with the victim if he could. 

As you can imagine, the relatives of the deceased have heavy emotions with regard to the situation.

The Oklahoman became aware of the situation over the weekend and pursued it as a story. 

Oklahoma State was aware of the situation after they offered, but they investigated and did their due diligence with the facts presented to them. It was a unanimous decision to go forward with pursuing Brown as a student-athlete. He had not been in trouble previously, has an excellent academic record.

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Mike Gundy and his staff did their due diligence in investing the incident and Brown.

While Oklahoma State offered before the accident, there were at least six Division I schools that offered Brown after learning of the situation including the University of Oklahoma, University of Oregon, and University of Michigan.

Brown finished with 92 tackles, 31 tackles-for-loss, and 13 sacks this past season. On top of that he had a blocked field goal, blocked a punt, had a pair of forced fumbles, and recovered a fumble that he returned for a touchdown. His numbers as a junior in helping the Yellow Jackets get all the way to the Class 6A-II State Championship Game where they challenged Bixby were also outstanding. He had 75 total tackles, 30.5 tackles-for-loss, and 15 sacks. He also defended two passes, had two fumble recoveries, and an interception.

One person close to the situation told me, “Desean would trade places with the young man that died if he could.” That doesn’t surprise me and neither does the statement one of his teammates said, “I know Desean thinks about that accident every day. It is a terrible thing to have to carry with you. I can look at him and often see that.”

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The Oklahoman Does a Story on the Tragic Incident Desean Brown Deeply Regrets

39,084 Views | 49 Replies | Last: 1 yr ago by Joe Khatib
GumbyFromPokeyLand
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Good find, but how can that be true? That story was written on 12/14. Stallion stated (made up a story) the offer was pulled on 12/12. Somebody has some 'splainin' to do.
Crazed_Stallion
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I can't find the rest of the article from the screenshots, but It went on to say they believed he had behavioral problems. At the time I thought it was just Sooner media saying this because they lost out on a guy. The more and more that came out it seems they didn't want the PR nightmare this has become. The Oklahoman probably gave them a heads up this was coming out, who knows.
Again, we can all agree to disagree on how to this goes. I have my thoughts and many have their own, just go on about the road and move on.
GumbyFromPokeyLand
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Lol SoonerScoop. Funny how other recruiting sites claim he had an OU offer (offered 12/11) and was still on the Zero radar on 12/14. It would seem if a site knew he had been offered as of 12/11 would also know the offer was immediately pulled (according to you), correct? Then why would they still be showing an outstanding offer and continued Zero interest as of 12/14? You're right, they wouldn't.

Could it be they "lost interest" because Brown told them to pound sand? Lost interest doesn't mean his offer was pulled. I've read where Brown just may have been trolling OU for an offer just so he could disappoint them by signing with OSU, his first choice all along. Lol

How long have you been following recruiting? I can't count the number of times over the years when either a player commits elsewhere, or shows no real interest, OU fanboy sites then claim the offer was pulled because this or that. The this or that is the Zero fanboys not wanting to admit losing a recruit to the likes of OSU.

Let's just face facts. You came here for one reason and one reason only, to try to embarrass OSU. You're not here to wish anybody well, or to represent the moral high ground. Just another zZero being a Zero.
Crazed_Stallion
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"Let's just face facts. You came here for one reason and one reason only, to try to embarrass OSU. You're not here to wish anybody well, or to represent the moral high ground. Just another zZero being a Zero."

Go pound sand BOOMER.. I was just simply saying that Brown killed an man and now Oklahoma State has to live with themselves having a murderer on campus. Just let it go man, your Orange glasses won't let you see anything bad or messed up OSU does. I don't like the signing and that's fine, you do. Again, agree to disagree!
GumbyFromPokeyLand
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And you needed to come here to say that because you think we need to hear from a Zero about how they are clearly morally superior. GTFO

Just another Zero being a Zero.
Crazed_Stallion
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Crazed_Stallion
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Ok.
CaliforniaCowboy
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can you find another site to pick fights with people, Gumby.


seriously this thread had ended (on a good note) until you picked a fight with a freaking goon of all things.

GumbyFromPokeyLand
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It may have ended until you chimed in with an article to rebut the goon. Regardless, if a zero is gonna come here to start trouble and lie, I'm gonna ride his lyin butt until he leaves or the mods kick him off.

You can leave too if you don't like it. Up to you.
Crazed_Stallion
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LMFAO.
grad17
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There are some serious mental gymnastics going on in this thread to justify Brown signing with OSU after killing an innocent kid. Some "Cowboy Culture" we have.
CaliforniaCowboy
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grad17 said:

There are some serious mental gymnastics going on in this thread to justify Brown signing with OSU after killing an innocent kid. Some "Cowboy Culture" we have.
there are some serious mental gymnastics going on to persecute a kid outside of the judicial system.

some society we have .....

can we move on. Everybody understands there are two sides.

I don't have a personal opinion, but do insist that we either have a judicial system or we do not. I prefer to believe in our judicial system.

May God bless you all.
Jerm4513
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The uncle does not speak for the whole family. Isaiah was my son. Forgiveness is a gift from God. We forgave Desean. When I seen him for the first time he was a scared child. We have came to care about him and even attended a game while he was at Choctaw. He is a good kid. We love and miss Isaiah every day. He lived with me. I was the first on the scene. Buy I will always speak well of desean
Joe Khatib
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Jerm4513 said:

The uncle does not speak for the whole family. Isaiah was my son. Forgiveness is a gift from God. We forgave Desean. When I seen him for the first time he was a scared child. We have came to care about him and even attended a game while he was at Choctaw. He is a good kid. We love and miss Isaiah every day. He lived with me. I was the first on the scene. Buy I will always speak well of desean
I am deeply sorry for your and your family's loss! I wish you and yours the best and also please understand that the individual who tried to start the flaming war and controversy on this site over this tragedy does NOT IN ANY WAY REPRESENT ALL OKLAHOMA STATE ALUMNI AND FANS AND IS NOT AN OSU FAN!!! RIP to Issac and prayers for your family!
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