Dasan and Daeh McCullough, sons of former MU star RB Deland, commit to Oklahoma Sooners

Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Indiana's Dasan McCullough pressures Penn State's Sean Clifford.
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Indiana Hoosiers edge rusher Dasan McCullough and Cincinnati Bearcats cornerback commit Daeh McCullough, the sons of former Miami University standout running back Deland McCullough, announced Monday night via Twitter that they've committed to play together for the Oklahoma University Sooners.

Dasan, who grew up in Cincinnati and previously had committed to the Ohio State University Buckeyes, played his freshman year at IU. He announced last week via Twitter that he was entering the transfer portal.

Deland left Indiana in February to become Notre Dame's running backs coach.

Dasan's younger brother, Daeh, had committed to the Cincinnati Bearcats as part of the Class of 2023.

In April 2021, Dasan announced he would join his father and brother, former Miami RedHawks defensive back Deland McCullough II, and play for the Hoosiers.

Dasan committed in Aug. 2020 to play for the Buckeyes. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound McCullough attended Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, but said at the time that OSU was "like a hometown pick for me."

Deland was the Hoosiers' running backs coach from 2011 to 2016. He spent one year with USC before becoming the Kansas City Chiefs' RBs coach in 2018. McCullough finished his Miami career as the school's all-time leading rusher with 4,368 yards. Only Travis Prentice has since eclipsed McCullough's rushing total at MU.

McCullough played for the Bengals for parts of two seasons. He was the head football coach at Harmony Community School and an offensive and special teams intern - and later running backs coach - for the RedHawks in 2010 and 2011 before leaving for IU.

In 2018, Deland's search for his biological parents was the subject of an "E:60" episode in which he discovered that his father was none other than Sherman Smith - then MU's running backs coach, McCullough's mentor and "the man he had looked up to since he was 16 years old," according to ESPN.com's Sarah Spain.

When the Chiefs hired McCullough in Jan. 2018, they promoted former Bengals running back and kick returner Eric Bieniemy to offensive coordinator.

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