Ever since Jeff Capel was introduced at Pitt, we’ve heard a steady stream of chatter from Lexington, all a bit gleeful and expecting that Duke recruiting will suffer.
Well we wouldn’t pop that champagne just yet.
As we learned when the Capel news broke, he wasn’t particularly involved in the recruitment of MJ Barrett, the consensus #1 player in the class, who said that his recruitment was primarily handled by Jon Scheyer.
There’s no doubt that Capel is a superb recruiter. But he didn’t recruit Danny Ferry, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams - well, you get the idea.