Pitt’s Capel objects to UNC tweet ‘trolling’ sibling
Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel, following his group’s 65-64 win at North Carolina on Wednesday, spoke up about the Tar Heels fans’ treatment of his bro and existing Panthers assistant, previous UNC standout Jason Capel.Jason Capel,
who averaged 12.1 points in four years at North Carolina (1998 to 2002), was booed by UNC fans after the game, which finished a season sweep for Pitt.In a video reviewed by ESPN, an animated Jason Capel, standing in the hallway of the Dean E. Smith Center following the matchup, can be heard announcing, “Check the record book! My kids did my work. I ain’t got to say absolutely nothing. All I did for this program and y’ all disrespect me? You got a broom? That’s a sweep.”
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Jeff Capel stated his brother was distressed by a tweet posted by the North Carolina males’s basketball account prior to the game but did not identify the specific tweet.
“My brother enjoys the school,” Jeff Capel said. “He imagined coming here as a player when we were bit, when he was little. He wore that [North Carolina] jersey with a lot of pride, and considering that he’s left here, there has been a great deal of disrespect toward him. And one thing occurred today, and I do not believe it’s coming from within the basketball program, and I do not understand who controls their social networks … I get social media, you try to be funny or whatever, however I believed it was them trolling him.
“It’s a complex relationship with him and North Carolina. He loves [them], but I believe sometimes, he does not feel that back.”
Hours prior to Wednesday’s game, the main Twitter represent North Carolina basketball tweeted a photo of a game-day program that showed Creighton Lebo– a walk-on and the child of North Carolina assistant Jeff Lebo– protruding his tongue. Creighton Lebo, who has played 2 minutes total this season, wears No. 25, the same number Jason Capel used for North Carolina.Jeff Capel said
the rocky relationship in between Jason Capel and North Carolina returns to 2009, when Jeff Capel was the head coach at Oklahoma and the Sooners dealt with the Tar Heels in the Elite Eight.” My brother existed with my whole family supporting me– he had an [Oklahoma] shirt on– and the North Carolina fans were quite s– ty towards him, excuse my language, however quite, quite nasty, and it [took one of the former North Carolina players to state something to them],” stated Jeff Capel, who played hoops at Duke from 1993 to 1997. “You hear about the Carolina family and it’s just incredible to me that their social networks individuals would do that. I do not believe it’s [UNC coach Hubert Davis] Hubert is remarkable. He really is. I do not believe it’s the players on the group.”