People tend to forget but of course Grant Hill and Jeff Capel were teammates for one season at Duke, when Hill was a senior and Capel a freshman.
They’ve remained good friends and Hill visited Capel this week for a fundraiser and had some thoughts about his old friend as he kicks off his Pitt career:
“He has great instincts with people,” Hill told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I think so much of coaching — whether it’s football or basketball — if you can motivate, if you can lead, if you can teach, if you can inspire, you’ll get people to follow you.