One of the really sad things this season is the news that Jeff Capel Jr. has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
After his diagnosis, Gehrig made the immortal speech at Yankee Stadium where he said he had had a bad break but “today...I consider myself the luckiest man in the world.”
On Saturday, Coach K invited Capel, whose son Jeff is Duke’s associate head coach, to be an honorary coach for the Wake Forest game.
Earlier in his career, Capel was an assistant at Wake and Capel was a Demon Deacons ballboy.