Oklahoma's DeMarco Murray suspended 1 game over violations - ESPN

Oklahoma running backs coach DeMarco Murray, who is entering his fifth season at his alma mater, will serve a one-game suspension this season after the NCAA determined he was involved in recruiting violations, the NCAA announced Tuesday.

According to the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, Murray impermissibly contacted prospects and their families before he was allowed to.

Oklahoma, 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. According to the NCAA, Murray indicated he wasn't aware that a COVID-19 waiver of recruiting contact rules had expired. During the investigation, the enforcement staff determined that the school had properly educated football coaches on the applicable recruiting rules and the timing of changes to them.

The school declined to say for which game Murray would serve his suspension.

Additional violations occurred in the OU track and field program when then-head coach Tim Langford told a female athlete to give some of her scholarship money to two male athletes in the track and field program. As a result of the violations, the NCAA and Oklahoma agreed that both football coach Brent Venables and Langford violated head coach responsibility rules.

Oklahoma will serve one year of probation and must pay a $5,000 fine. The NCAA also imposed a three-week ban on recruiting phone and electronic correspondence sometime between Dec. 8, 2024, and March 31, 2025. OU football is also not allowed to have any unofficial visits during the Sooners' season opener against Temple on Friday.

There were also other self-imposed penalties