Jeff Capel Jr., former Fayetteville State basketball coach, has died
Posted Nov 13, 2017
Jeff Capel Jr., the former Fayetteville State University basketball coach who went on to the NBA, has died. In January, Capel’s son revealed that his father had been battling ALS since spring 2016. “The Fayetteville State University family is saddened by the passing of one of its most respected alumni and former coaches,” Chancellor James Anderson said Monday.
(Fayetteville Observer)
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