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Sorry Big 12: Capel staying at OU
Much to the chagrin of Big 12 fans who wanted no more part of Jeff Capel in their league, current USC head coach, former Iowa State coach and NBA two-time loser Tim Floyd will be the next head basketball coach at the University of Arizona.
It’s an annual rite of passage that teams (college and pro) around the country will sniff around Norman to try and pick up a football or basketball coach to help out their floundering, but once-glorious program. Joe Castiglione has all but kept those dogs at bay by paying Bob Stoops the equivalent of a South Pacific island nation’s GNP, although some people still can’t help themselves dreaming a little dream every year that Stoops will move on. Kelvin Sampson was rumored for nearly every job opening for 10 years until finally taking his antique rollover minutes to Indiana.
The latest in the “will somebody please take this guy off our schedule” tilting is Jeff Capel, who was first rumored for the Georgia job. There’s no way Capel goes to coach in that barn, especially after Mike Anderson turned them down, but we’ll probably still have to put up with this rumor crap until they hire some mid-major sucker coach. Then it was rumored he would go to Virginia. Didn’t happen. Finally, a little story in some Super Saver weekly picked up steam yesterday and people like Austin’s ESPN sports radio flailed at the drumbeat of Capel going to Arizona. Again … wishful thinking.
Seriously ... Georgia?
Capel, who as we all know pulled OU’s program out of the ditch and put them into the Elite 8 three years later, apparently likes the idea of coaching three McDonald’s All-Americans next year. One of them, Keith “Tiny” Gallon, has dropped about six months’ worth of quarter pounders and looked great in last night’s all-star fest.
So, welcome back from wherever people had already sent you, Jeff. We’re not naïve enough to think we’ll have you forever at OU, but we’re sure glad you’re our guy right now.
