Dasan McCullough, the son of former Miami University standout running back Deland McCullough and a Class of 2022 linebacker who grew up in Cincinnati and previously had committed to the Ohio State University Buckeyes, announced Sunday that he'll instead join his father and brother and play for the Indiana University Hoosiers.
Dasan committed last August to play for OSU. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound McCullough attends Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, but said at the time that OSU was "like a hometown pick for me."
In February, Deland left his position as the Kansas City Chiefs' running backs coach to become IU's running backs and associate head coach.
On Saturday, Deland McCullough II, a defensive back for the Miami RedHawks for the past two seasons, announced via Twitter that he's transferring to IU to join his dad:
From Deland via Twitter on Sunday:
Deland was the Hoosiers' running backs coach from 2011 to 2016. He spent one year with USC before becoming an assistant with the Chiefs 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 and briefly played for the Philadelphia Eagles, the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the XFL's Chicago Enforcers. 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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