Jeff Capel’s postgame press conference Monday night lasted all of two minutes, from “Give them credit” to “That’s easy,” at which point he got up and left. It’s a rare occasion when Mike Krzyzewski’s opening statement doesn’t last longer than that.
It wasn’t that Capel had nothing to say, just that no one had anything to ask.
It was almost as if he had suddenly become irrelevant.
That was certainly the uninformed consensus of the online cognoscenti, which started floating Mike Brey’s name as a more likely successor to Krzyzewski after Duke lost at home to N.