Georgia is interested in Capel

Sources close to the situation say Evans is willing to make Felton's successor the first $1 million basketball coach in Georgia history.

The Bulldogs are setting their sights high: Oklahoma's Jeff Capel, who might command twice as much in salary as Felton, is believed to be at the top of their wish list of potential replacements.

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Capel is in a position where his name is going top pop up on a lot of shortlists

by ccmachine on Jan 31, 2009 12:17 AM CST reply actions

ACC schools have a shot and you know he will jump at Duke if that is ever offered but I think for now he would leave OU for a equal or lesser conference

by SoonersNews.com on Jan 31, 2009 12:11 PM CST reply actions

*wouldnt

by SoonersNews.com on Jan 31, 2009 12:11 PM CST up reply actions

I think that just about every coach in America would jump at Duke

by ccmachine on Jan 31, 2009 2:15 PM CST up reply actions

I wouldn't be too worried about Georgia,

unless they would triple his salary.

by SoonerDutch on Jan 31, 2009 10:50 PM CST up reply actions

With the year he is having

OU is going to give him a big raise if he gets to the final four or the NC and he is going to get all those stoops like performance bonuses in his new contract.

OU would match any offer he got from outside, OU loved to bring up Stoops as the highest paid coach and sitll trumpets he is one of the top ones before bonuses. So, I think they would love to be able to say they have the highest paid BBall coach if they had to pay him that much to keep him.

by SoonersNews.com on Feb 1, 2009 11:22 AM CST up reply actions

Regardless...

if we make the Final Four or not, Castiglione should back the Armored Car up to Coach Capel’s door step and tell him he can have whatever he wants. I, personally, don’t like the notion that we are strictly a football school and paying Capel would be step in the right direction towards telling the world that OU is not a stepping stone job (except for Duke, Kentucky or UNC). I think in 20 years, people are going to talk about Capel like they talk about Roy Williams, Coach K or Rick Pitino.

Of course, that doesn’t solve the problem of having a half empty LNC for non-conference home games. But let’s solve one issue at a time.

by Sooner71 on Feb 4, 2009 6:32 PM CST up reply actions