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Duke Blue Devils: Potential Candidates to Eventually Replace Mike Krzyzewski

By Chris Godfrey

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Jeff Capel (Duke Associate Head Coach)

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Don’t let his current standing as an assistant fool you. Jeff Capel is a proven commodity as a head basketball coach. Before Anthony Grant and Shaka Smart made Virginia Commonwealth one of the sexiest mid-major programs in the country, it was Capel who put the VCU Rams on the map with four-straight winning seasons.

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    • Capel parlayed that experience into the head gig at Oklahoma, where he maxed out with an Elite Eight appearance while coaching Blake Griffin. After Griffin’s departure, the wheels fell off in Norman and Capel was eventually fired. However, Capel was welcomed back to Durham for a second stint as an assistant on Coach K’s bench. Receiving such a heavy co-sign from Coach K seems like a good indication of how he is viewed in Duke Basketball circles.

    Surely, Capel could be a head coach somewhere, but you would have to think that Capel is lying in wait for this opportunity. Why take the risk of failing somewhere else when you can possibly fall backwards into the best job in college basketball?

    His status as an assistant, but also having the title of “associate head coach” all bodes well for his chances to simply slide over to the first chair once Coach K retires.