Before this year, every Duke basketball recruiting class since 2007 had already added its first commitment by September, which is starting to make one wonder: Is the program missing the recruiting expertise of former Blue Devils assistant Jeff Capel?
Just days after last season came to an end for Duke in the Elite Eight against Kansas, Capel took the head coaching job at Pitt. And many of the Blue Devils’ insiders worried that Capel was taking with him the recruiting ability that played an immeasurable role in landing so many of the nation’s top prospects from the past decade.