Ex-Eagles, Cowboys RB suspended one game over NCAA’s Oklahoma probe

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The NCAA suspended Oklahoma assistant football coach DeMarco Murray for one game on Tuesday, saying he impermissibly contacted prospects and their families.

It’s yet to be announced which game Murray will miss. Before becoming OU’s running backs coach in 2020, Murray was a seven-year NFL running back with the Cowboys, Eagles and Titans. He rushed for 792 yards and six touchdowns in 2015, his lone season in Philadelphia, after four years in Dallas where he was NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 2015.

The NCAA said the school, Murray and the enforcement staff agreed that the violations in the football program occurred when Murray impermissibly contacted 17 prospects over 16 months, including 65 impermissible phone calls and 36 impermissible text messages. This probe also investigated the Oklahoma track and field program.

Murray starred at Oklahoma from 2007-2010, when the Sooners won 43 games, three Big 12 championships and lost the 2008 season’s BCS title game to Florida.

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Ben Brigandi is a lifelong professional in sports media, as a writer and editor. Career highlights include covering future pros in high school and even younger, from kicker Robbie Gould in high school to Jurickson Profar, Cody Bellinger, and others at the Little League World Series held in his neighborhood. Born and raised in central Pennsylvania, Ben graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism and covered Nittany Lion games for nearly two decades after attending games as a kid growing up in Happy Valley. He’s seen the Eagles go from hated rivals to his boyhood favorite Washington Commanders to accepting their success as Dan Snyder ruined his fandom. One day, Ben dreams of again playing golf to a legit single-digit handicap, without either putting in the work or sinking pesky 3-foot putts.