Mark Patton in "We Are Marshall" Marshall basketball player Mark Patton, center, is asked by Matthew McConaughey, right, portraying Jack Lengyel and Matthew Fox, left, portraying Red Dawson to try out for the football team during filming of "We Are Marshall" on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, near Twin Towers on Marshall's campus in Huntington, W.Va. Patton, a Barboursville native, portrays a 1971 Marshall basketball player asked to play football following the 1970 crash that killed 75 members of the Huntington community and and the school's football team. Randy Snyder/The Herald-Dispatch