DeMarco Murray Among Investors Hoping to Buy NY Mets

Former Sooner RB and current assistant coach could join Urlacher, Kelce, A-Rod, J-Lo and others as owners of the baseball club

John E. Hoover | Jul 13, 2020

Has a college football coach ever owned a professional sports franchise?

It could happen.

Oklahoma running backs coach and former Sooner great DeMarco Murray has been named among a group of investors trying to buy the New York Mets.

The New York Post reported Monday that. Murray, Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce and others are joining Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez in submitting a $1.7 billion bid to purchase the baseball club.

The Post reports that current minority owner Steve Cohen has already submitted a bid of “around $2 billion, along with an additional $2 billion for the local New York-based network SNY.

“Being a former athlete and having a chance to be a part of a group trying to purchase a professional team, it’s pretty cool,” Urlacher told ESPN. “It’s especially cool to be involved with Alex. Alex is the man. You’ve got Kelce, Joe Thomas, DeMarco Murray. It’s great to be in a group with them.”

Murray was the 2014 NFL rushing champ and offensive player of the year for the Dallas Cowboys. During his four seasons as a Sooner, Murray accounted for 5,256 scrimmage yards to go with school records of 6,718 yards and 65 touchdowns.

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Published Jul 13, 2020

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.