Jeff Capel

[Keeyan Half Court Dunks]

Looks to be a great hire.
Coach at Oklahoma, 33 years old
Played at Duke
Father was a good coach at Old Dominion.
Good recruiter that shows he can recruit both guards and bigs:
Recruited Scottie Reynolds and Daimon James who left after Kelvin Sampson was fired.
Recruited current stud big man Blake Griffin who will prob be leaving after this year.

Season             Team    Overall Conference Standing    Postseason
Virginia Commonwealth (Colonial Athletic Association) (2002 — 2006)
2002-2003    VCU    18-10    12-6         T-2nd    
2003-2004    VCU    23-8    14-4           1st    NCAA 1st Round
2004-2005    VCU    19-13    13-5        T-2nd    NIT Opening Round
2005-2006    VCU    19-10    11-7           5th    
                     VCU:     79-41 50-22    
Oklahoma (Big 12 Conference) (2006 — present)
2006-2007   Oklahoma   16-15  6-10     T-7th    
2007-2008   Oklahoma   23-12  9-7      T-4th    NCAA 2nd Round
                 Oklahoma:  39-27 15-17    
Total:    118-68    

[LastWarrior]

Why would he leave the Big 12 and Oklahoma?

[ChicosBailBonds]

Why would he leave the Big 12 and Oklahoma?

Just signed an extension last week at OU

[Tulsa Warrior]

Not going to happen.  The word from Okie land

[Keeyan Half Court Dunks]

Crean just signed a 10 year extension last year.  So we should know how ironclad those extensions given to college coaches are.

It is attractive because football is king at OK, here basketball is king.
He is likely losing his best player to the NBA draft.
The BEAST is a better conference than the Big 12.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Crean just signed a 10 year extension last year.  So we should know how ironclad those extensions given to college coaches are.

It is attractive because football is king at OK, here basketball is king.
He is likely losing his best player to the NBA draft.
The BEAST is a better conference than the Big 12.

The BEAST is a better conference than the Big 12, it's a lot tougher...a lot tougher to succeed.  I can't see a guy that is doing so-so in the Big 12 ready to come to the Big East.  JMO

[Thomas' Danish Delight]

His mom was my PE teacher in middle school back in Virginia...and that's all I got.

[dwaderoy2004]

Looks to be a great hire.
Coach at Oklahoma, 33 years old
Played at Duke
Father was a good coach at Old Dominion.
Good recruiter that shows he can recruit both guards and bigs:
Recruited Scottie Reynolds and Daimon James who left after Kelvin Sampson was fired.
Recruited current stud big man Blake Griffin who will prob be leaving after this year.

Season             Team    Overall Conference Standing    Postseason
Virginia Commonwealth (Colonial Athletic Association) (2002 — 2006)
2002-2003    VCU    18-10    12-6         T-2nd    
2003-2004    VCU    23-8    14-4           1st    NCAA 1st Round
2004-2005    VCU    19-13    13-5        T-2nd    NIT Opening Round
2005-2006    VCU    19-10    11-7           5th    
                     VCU:     79-41 50-22    
Oklahoma (Big 12 Conference) (2006 — present)
2006-2007   Oklahoma   16-15  6-10     T-7th    
2007-2008   Oklahoma   23-12  9-7      T-4th    NCAA 2nd Round
                 Oklahoma:  39-27 15-17    
Total:    118-68    

How could he have possibly recruited scottie reynolds and damian james to oklahoma when he was the coach at VCU until Sampson was fired???