Originally Posted by
Steven43
First of all, I meant relatively average for a Duke player. And the “relatively” part does allow for some wiggle room. The point was that Capel as an assistant at Duke wasn’t a selling point like, say, Memphis has with Penny Hardaway. None of these guys had ever heard of Jeff Capel as a basketball player. You seem to be parsing my words to try to score points, Jim. I think you had a pretty good idea of what I meant.
As for Capel being very good at selling the super elite brand that is Duke University, Duke Basketballl, and Coach K, well, okay great. I’d like a crack at that job. I would work for a third of what Jeff got. Of course, I’m joking here. I just happen to think if you work hard it’s close to being a ‘can’t fail’ sort of job. And I disagree with a previous poster saying it is on the same level as being an assistant at Michigan State, or Kansas, or any of the others. No, I think Duke at this time in history is above them all and clearly so.