According to multiple sources, Jason Capel has been offered the job as Appalachian State's men's basketball coach.Sources said that Capel has tentatively accepted the job, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Assuming there is no snag in contract details that were being worked out Monday night, Capel could be officially named coach as early as Tuesday.
Capel was an assistant coach at Appalachian State last season — his first season as a coach. The ASU head-coaching position became vacant when Buzz Peterson was named UNC Wilmington's coach last Friday.
Capel played four seasons at North Carolina from 1998 through 2002, and then played professionally in Serbia, Japan and Italy and in the NBA's Developmental League. His father Jeff Capel Jr. is an assistant coach for the Charlotte Bobcats. His brother Jeff Capel III is the head coach at Oklahoma.
