Capel hire wouldn't intimidate Pac-12 coaches
Over the next 48 to 72 hours, Arizona State is likely to announce the hiring of Duke assistant Jeff Capel as its new basketball coach. That would be OK. No sitting coach in the Pac-12 would look on in fear. Capel is only 40 and has been a head coach for nine seasons (at VCU and Oklahoma). The gamble ASU athletic director Ray Anderson would take is whether he’s blinded by Capel’s Duke pedigree and has fully researched why Capel went 27-36 in his final two Oklahoma seasons and was fired (13 of those wins were later vacated over NCAA sanctions). Whatever, the job market is so thin that if ASU can get someone better than Capel, Anderson will be viewed as a very smart man.
