Following a 65-64 Pitt win in Chapel Hill, Panthers head coach Jeff Capel explained why his brother and assistant coach Jason Capel--who is also a former UNC player--yelled at Tar Heel fans after the game.
Your brother was pretty heated afterwards. You know what transpired? You know, it's, it's been um my brother loves the school, he dreamt of coming here As a player when, when, when we were little, when he was little and you know, we grew up here, my family moved to Virginia. I think my brother was going to 9th grade. This is the place that he always dreamt of playing and he wore that jersey with a lot of pride. And since he's left here, there's been a lot of disrespect towards him and one thing happened today and I don't think it's coming from within the basketball program and I don't know who controls their social media, but there was a tweet and I hope I was hoping he didn't see it. I'm not on social media. One of the guys on my staff showed it to me where you know, again, I get social media twitter, you try to be funny, you try to do whatever, but I thought it was them trolling him and you know, it's, it's it's a complicated relationship with him in north Carolina. He loves it. But I think at times he doesn't feel that back And I don't know, you know, it started to be honest with you in 2009, we played North Carolina when I was at Oklahoma to go to the final four and my brother was there with my whole family supporting me. He had an old you shirt on and the Carolina fans were pretty shitty towards excuse my language, but pretty, pretty nasty. And it took one of the former players to say something. And you know, for me, it's just really interesting, man, because again, I grew up in the state and this is one of the most tradition laden programs in the history of college athletics, not just college basketball and you hear about the Carolina family. And it's just amazing to me that their social media people would do that. I don't think it's hubert, hubert's awesome. I mean he really is. I don't think it's the players on the team. They are incredibly respectful and really good young guys. Obviously the game was emotional and that's the way it's supposed to be as you get into february. But to answer your question, it's just, it's a complicated relationship and I hate it. I hate it for him. I hate it for this program because I know that he loves this place.