Report: North Texas GM Raj Murti Working on Behalf of Oklahoma State

With North Texas still playing football, it’s been a wonder who all will follow Eric Morris up I-35 from Denton. One person who is appears to be making the trip is Raj Murti, the Mean Green’s general manager.

Murti has started working on behalf of Oklahoma State, according to The Oklahoman‘s Scott Wright. Only 24 years old, Murti already has collected quite a bit of experience on the talent acquisition side of college football, starting as a recruiting intern at Houston (his alma mater) in 2019 before working his way up to UNT’s GM this season.

According to his North Texas bio, Murti oversaw all aspects of the UNT roster, recruiting and personnel departments starting in April.

He joined North Texas after a two-year stint at TCU. He was the Horned Frogs’ recruiting coordinator in 2024 before being promoted to the assistant director of player personnel ahead of his exit.

Before that, Murti had worked his way up to the assistant director of player personnel at Houston in 2023 in his fifth year with the program.

Murti helped TCU secure the Big 12’s top 2025 recruiting class, serving as the primary point of contact for prospects, their families and high school coaches in Fort Worth.

While at Houston, Murti climbed the ladder until he was the primary contact and evaluator for all high school, junior college and portal recruits on the offensive side of the ball. Houston went on to sign four of the top 10 prospects in program history in Murti’s last three years at his alma mater.

A few months back, Teamworks posted a video to its YouTube channel spotlighting Murti where he discusses some philosophy and how they go about things. Some of this could be altered with the change in scenery, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

“Our approach in recruiting is about high school players,” Murti said. “We’re in the best state there is for high school football. Texas high school football is unmatched in the country, so being able to still recruit heavy high school classes, maintain our relationship with the Texas high school coaches and keeping those guys in our program. Obviously for us, it’s retention. Being able to hang onto those guys after they’ve got great seasons and not let them get poached by P4 schools.

“The way I describe it is I like building the boat with high school players, and then you go and patch the boat with portal players. So, if you have an unexpected departure or anything like that, that’s when we’ll typically go to the portal and fill a gap that we have.”

Murti also did an interview with the Jordan Sports Group YouTube channel where he described his come-up in the space, starting as a student coach at Martin High School in Arlington before going to Houston (with enough college credits to already be a junior) and getting started by cutting up film and entering data. Murti graduated from Houston with a degree in finance in just two years.

He credited Sonny Dykes and Dana Holgorsen as guys who helped get him in the door with Morris at UNT.

It’s no secret that OSU hasn’t been the most modern of programs in this new era of modern football, but here’s a line from Murti as part of that interview that ought to make OSU fans feel good about the future.

“How to describe day to day (as a GM), it’s what comes down the pipe that day,” Murti said. “Everything from trying to figure out what the new rules are. OK, these are the new rules, where do we fit within them? How can we use these rules to the best of our advantage? At the end of the day if you look at successful programs anywhere across the country, they’ve found a way to make the rules work for them. By no means does that mean bending lines or anything like that, it just means using them to their maximum potential.”