Content: Jeff Goodman
@GoodmanHoops
BREAKING: West Virginia Hall of Fame coach Bob Huggins has informed his team that he won’t be coaching them and intends to resign, following last night’s DUI incident, source told
@stadium
.
Staff members and coaches were in tears as Huggins delivered the news around 9 pm ET, source told
@stadium
.
Huggins told the players that he was unsure who would be coaching them this season.
Huggins, 69, has 935 career victories and has a pair of Final Four appearances.
The DUI comes about six weeks after he made homophobic comments on a Cincinnati radio show.
Huggins was suspended for the first three games of next season and his contract was altered to a year-by-year agreement, and he also had his pay reduced by $1 million.
According to the complaint, Huggins recorded a blood alcohol level of .210 on Friday night.
Last edited 8:16 PM · Jun 17, 2023
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
I liked Huggins and will miss him as a coach. There's thinking that when he made the homophobic slur that he might have been drinking, and driving with a .21%, not having any idea where you are, and with a car full of empty beer cans, it sounds like he has a pretty serious problem.
Hoping for his own good that he sorts himself out and gets his life under control. Sad stuff.
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