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Jeff Capel out at Oklahoma

  • SportsAndLady
    If not for Mike Brey, coach K's coaching tree seems to be failing at other places.
  • reclegend22
    Jeff Capel never coached for Duke and therefore is not a part of Coach K's coaching tree.

    He did play at Duke in the mid-'90s, however.

    As for Jeff, he has won 27 games in two seasons since Blake Griffin was drafted into the NBA. This was inevitable considering many believe Oklahoma to be positioning for former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie. Capel let the Sooners fall off the deep end and he is now gone.
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    To be fair, a lot of former Dukies probably got hired/promoted too early because of K - I'd throw Capel in there. He was way too young and inexperienced for that position.

    Oklahoma is a tough job. The facility (and program) was great in the 80's but seems dated now. More of a football school and their in-state rival tends to be more rabid about basketball. They pretty much have to recruit in Texas and with UT, aTm and even Baylor surging its tough to get recruits to Norman. Even back in the day Coach Tubbs relied a LOT on JUCO's.
  • Gblock
    Coaching careerHe began his coaching career serving as an assistant coach under his father, Jeff Capel II, at Old Dominion University for the 2000–2001 season. In 2001, he joined the coaching staff of Virginia Commonwealth University as an assistant. He was promoted to head coach of the Rams for the 2002–2003 season—making him, at the time, the youngest head coach in Division I men's college basketball (27 years old).

    [edit] Virginia Commonwealth UniversityIn his four years as head coach at VCU, Capel guided the Rams to a record number of wins (79) and the highest winning percentage (.658) of any Division I program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Following the 2003–04 season, Capel was named both the Richmond Times-Dispatch and VaSID state Coach of the Year after leading the Rams to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1996. Coaching highlights include a near-upset of Wake Forest in the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Surprisingly, one of his toughest opponents was the Division II crosstown rival, Virginia Union University. Capel's Rams lost two years in a row to the Panthers on VCU's home court. However, he did lead the Rams to a 7–3 record against CAA rival, and former employer, Old Dominion.

    In 2005, Capel was named an assistant coach in the USA Men's World University Games Team, joining then Manhattan head coach Bobby Gonzalez in assisting Villanova head coach Jay Wright. The United States won the gold medal in İzmir, Turkey, in August
  • swamisez
    NC State is hiring, as is Georgia Tech. Doubt either would bite a bullet and take a Duke guy.

    Not sure where he will end up, maybe if Herb bolts for Providence Jeff could go to ASU?
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    "Not sure where he will end up, maybe if Herb bolts for Providence Jeff could go to ASU? "

    Possible, but more likely Arkansas. But that's as tough as a job as Okie. Capel is probably better off doing the Dan Monson thing and head back to the mid-majors to develop a program and coaching theme, and ideally located in the mid-atlantic/southeastern region. An Atlantic 10/Colonial job would be a good transition for him.
  • swamisez
    Lots of SoCon jobs open, but I think his success in the CAA is more easily replicated than in the SoCon.
    I agree it would be a good transition, but going from Big12 down to Colonial or SoCon has got to be an ego hit.
  • reclegend22
    When you win 4 and 5 games in the far from dominant Big XII in each of the last two seasons, respectively, your ego is already hit.
  • SportsAndLady
    Yeah and hes young, it's not like hes 50 and going "im never gonna coach big time balll again"
  • Mulva
    Oklahoma would have been pretty decent this year if Willie Warren and Tiny Gallon had realized they weren't anywhere near NBA ready.
  • SportsAndLady
    reclegend22;711761 wrote:Jeff Capel never coached for Duke and therefore is not a part of Coach K's coaching tree.

    I think it still fits. If if you are coached by someone, then you go onto coach, don't you think you would use that coach's techniques?
  • reclegend22
    SportAndLady wrote:I think it still fits. If if you are coached by someone, then you go onto coach, don't you think you would use that coach's techniques?
    I definitely think Jeff learned from Coach K. He would have been showing very low intelligence not to. But that doesn't make him part of Coach K's coaching tree. In fact, it's fact that he's not.

    Despite absorbing four years of Coach K's insight into basketball, I think it is just as likely that Jeff learned an even greater amount of his coaching tendencies from being around, and coaching for, his father, Jeff II, who for years served as head coach at Old Dominion and held jobs in the NBA, his entire life. In fact, Jeff's first coaching job, as referenced above, was for his father at ODU. He comes from a basketball family -- in addition to his father, Jeff's brother played at North Carolina -- and it is just as logical to reason that Jeff Capel developed his principal approach to coaching while growing up in that atmosphere at home and in the gyms with his father as it is to reason that he would clone Coach K primarily. It's more than likely a combination of the two.

    Besides, so what. Herb Sendek's coaching tree includes Thad Matta. Tremendous, I guess, that Herb's branches are more successful than the trunk. Lol.
  • reclegend22
    I definitely think Jeff learned from Coach K. He would have been showing very low intelligence not to. But that doesn't make him part of Coach K's coaching tree. In fact, it's a fact that he's not.

    Despite absorbing four years of Coach K's insight into basketball, I think it is just as likely that Jeff learned an even greater amount of his coaching tendencies from being around, and coaching for, his father, Jeff II, who for years served as head coach at Old Dominion and held jobs in the NBA, his entire life. In fact, Jeff's first coaching job, as referenced above, was for his father at ODU. He comes from a basketball family -- in addition to his father, Jeff's brother played at North Carolina -- and it is just as logical to reason that Jeff Capel developed his principal approach to coaching while growing up in that atmosphere at home and in the gyms with his father as it is to reason that he would clone Coach K primarily. It's more than likely a combination of the two.

    Besides, so what. Herb Sendek's coaching tree includes Thad Matta. Tremendous, I guess, that Herb's branches are more successful than the trunk. Lol.