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Arkansas coaching legend requires help

Not from his closest friends, who call him Billy Joe.

Not as a standout basketball player for the Morrilton Devil Dogs and Arkansas Tech University, where he set a freshman single-season scoring record of 608 points that still stands.

Certainly not as a high school basketball coach or athletic director.

Murray has won seven -- yes seven -- state championships, including one at Crawfordsville and six at Earle (all of them since 2008).

To his surprise, he was nominated for the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.

After graduating from Tech, he was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz but passed to take a job as the seventh-grade coach in Morrilton so he could take care of his family.