VCU Looking For Capel's Replacement

[Wildcat Larry]

On the coaching front, it appears that Anthony Grant, associate head coach at the University of Florida, remains in the forefront of the search for a replacement for Jeff Capel, who left last week to become coach at the University of Oklahoma.

Indications are that Grant could take the job, but Florida reportedly is going to make every effort to keep him as part of coach Billy Donovan's NCAA championship staff.

Others who are considered to be possibilities include David Hobbs, associate head coach at the University of Kentucky and a former VCU assistant, Lehigh coach Billy Taylor, and Mark Cline, who was an assistant under Capel at VCU for three years.

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Mark Cline is from Williamson, WV, right next to Pike County, KY. He was a heck of a player in high school.

[Wildcat Larry]

Anthony Grant assumed his first head coaching job Tuesday, taking over at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Grant spent 12 years as an assistant for Billy Donovan, including the last 10 at Florida, which won the national championship this season.

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The 40-year-old Grant replaces Jeff Capel, who resigned unexpectedly after four successful seasons as the Rams coach last Monday to take over the same position at Oklahoma.

"There were no other candidates for this job," said athletic director Richard Sander, who is retiring this summer, at the press conference. "Anthony Grant was our man from the get-go."

Donovan, who joined the press conference by telephone, called the hire "one of the greatest coaching coups that (VCU) could ever have possibly dreamed of."


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