Crosstown Shootout - Rubber Penis Game???

[nuts4xu]

I need to know if the crowd really threw rubber penises on to the court. This is what the real question is here. LOL

I figured this deserved its own thread.

I have attended nearly every crosstown shootout Xavier home game for the past 35 years.

I sat on the bench for the Handshake game. I was in the stands for the brawl and Mick Cronin trying to fight JP Macura. I was there when Dexter Campbell and Keith Starks wanted to fight each other. I cussed out Bob Huggins from the stands at the Cincinnati Gardens from the second row, sitting one section over from his wife. I have seen most every noteworthy moment in this rivalry over the past 3 1/2 decades.

It don't endorse that type of behavior but rubber dicks don't belong on a basketball court, and my sophomoric sense of humor would have gotten a real kick out of such a move, regardless of the opponent. Throwing them on the court when we are playing UC, would be even more memorable especially if they landed at the feet of Bob Huggins.

I am not naïve enough to think this could never have happened. But I sure think I would have heard about it at some point in this internet tavern of ours.

Does anyone remember a single rubber penis (or multiple if that is the case) being thrown on the floor, in any game, EVER?

[xubrew]

I figured this deserved its own thread.

I have attended nearly every crosstown shootout Xavier home game for the past 35 years.

I sat on the bench for the Handshake game. I was in the stands for the brawl and Mick Cronin trying to fight JP Macura. I was there when Dexter Campbell and Keith Starks wanted to fight each other. I cussed out Bob Huggins from the stands at the Cincinnati Gardens from the second row, sitting one section over from his wife. I have seen most every noteworthy moment in this rivalry over the past 3 1/2 decades.

It don't endorse that type of behavior but rubber dicks don't belong on a basketball court, and my sophomoric sense of humor would have gotten a real kick out of such a move, regardless of the opponent. Throwing them on the court when we are playing UC, would be even more memorable especially if they landed at the feet of Bob Huggins.

I am not naïve enough to think this could never have happened. But I sure think I would have heard about it at some point in this internet tavern of ours.

Does anyone remember a single rubber penis (or multiple if that is the case) being thrown on the floor?

I don't remember this either.

I don't go back as far as you do and haven't been to nearly as many Shootouts as you have. I'm lucky if I can make it to one Xavier game at all every couple of years. But the majority of my Cincinnati friends who are diehard sports fans are UC fans. None of them remember it either. If it had actually happened, I think they would have known. I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Unless it happened in the early 90s in one of the games that was only on local television, I don't see how this could have happened and had so few people know about it.

[bleedXblue]

I sure Huggs is embellishing the story. Could a couple of random students do this....of course

[X-man]

I haven't missed a home Shootout since before Huggins came to UC. I never heard of such a thing, and so I concur with BleedXBlue on this. If there's anything to it, it had to have been just a couple kids in the student section. I love that Xavier is still living in tHuggins' head though.

[Dblue]

To me this is almost the skipped over part of the story. It's bad enough to drop a couple of slurs and insult a religious group. Even if true, how bad is it that he had to reference an event that no one has ever heard of before to use as you lead to saying all of that?

[paulxu]

If you guys fortunate enough to attend all the shootouts don't remember it, and it wasn't brought up right after the game in any fashion that made the news, I'm wondering if Bob had a dream one night (nightmare of losing to us again confused with some soft core porn he had been watching)?

[STL_XUfan]

Oh the full story from Huggins is even more wild:

""They threw rubber penises at us. Not just the nuns, I mean the whole arena. The whole arena. That's the truth, now. They (the rubber penises) were about that big they were about that long. ... So they threw these rubber penises at us, and Nancy Peters, Coach Pete's (Dan Peters') wife, went around and gathered them all up and put 'em in her purse. and then she went to church the next day and went up and saw the priest and dumped them out ... and she says, this is what happens at your school. He said, 'They didn't do that. The nuns wouldn't do that. They wouldn't allow that.' She said, 'Well, where do you think they came from? You think I carry these around?'"

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/ (https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/)

One dildo was thrown at a Bills game and it is still talked about. Yet enough to fill a purse were thrown at the Crosstown shootout and not one person remembers it.

[paulxu]

There were nuns at Xavier? Sister Rose?

[D-West & PO-Z]

Oh the full story from Huggins is even more wild:

""They threw rubber penises at us. Not just the nuns, I mean the whole arena. The whole arena. That's the truth, now. They (the rubber penises) were about that big they were about that long. ... So they threw these rubber penises at us, and Nancy Peters, Coach Pete's (Dan Peters') wife, went around and gathered them all up and put 'em in her purse. and then she went to church the next day and went up and saw the priest and dumped them out ... and she says, this is what happens at your school. He said, 'They didn't do that. The nuns wouldn't do that. They wouldn't allow that.' She said, 'Well, where do you think they came from? You think I carry these around?'"

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/ (https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/)

One dildo was thrown at a Bills game and it is still talked about. Yet enough to fill a purse were thrown at the Crosstown shootout and not one person remembers it.

Drunk hallucinations from a barely functioning alcoholic. Guy is a buffoon.

[paulxu]

Actually, there couldn't be a more perfect example of living rent free in somebody's mind.

[nickgyp]

I don't remember this either.

I don't go back as far as you do and haven't been to nearly as many Shootouts as you have. I'm lucky if I can make it to one Xavier game at all every couple of years. But the majority of my Cincinnati friends who are diehard sports fans are UC fans. None of them remember it either. If it had actually happened, I think they would have known. I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Unless it happened in the early 90s in one of the games that was only on local television, I don't see how this could have happened and had so few people know about it.

I have attended many a UC-XU basketball game over the past decades going back as far as when Joe Pangrazio chased Raleigh Wynn with a crutch that the former had grabbed from a disabled fan. I also heard the “UC sucks” echo through the cavernous Gardens during the pre-anthem silence before the 1968 game.

As others have alluded, the series has seen some outbursts. However, there is a reason no one has never heard this allegation before yesterday. It simply didn’t happen.

This phallusy must be put to rest

[blueblood]

I've got 35-40 years of attending nearly every XU game . . . never saw one thrown, never heard of this . . . maybe a random student did something like this but when he says the nuns did it . . . all I can think is he's lost his mind.

That said, birds of a feather flock together . . . so maybe those dildos found him on their own.

[xubrew]

Oh the full story from Huggins is even more wild:

""They threw rubber penises at us. Not just the nuns, I mean the whole arena. The whole arena. That's the truth, now. They (the rubber penises) were about that big they were about that long. ... So they threw these rubber penises at us, and Nancy Peters, Coach Pete's (Dan Peters') wife, went around and gathered them all up and put 'em in her purse. and then she went to church the next day and went up and saw the priest and dumped them out ... and she says, this is what happens at your school. He said, 'They didn't do that. The nuns wouldn't do that. They wouldn't allow that.' She said, 'Well, where do you think they came from? You think I carry these around?'"

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/ (https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/)

One dildo was thrown at a Bills game and it is still talked about. Yet enough to fill a purse were thrown at the Crosstown shootout and not one person remembers it.

The nuns threw rubber penises at Bob Huggins and UC.

That is QUITE a sentence!!!

Yunno, I kind of wish that had happened!! It's just too hilarious of a visual!!! It clearly didn't happen because there is no way that it could have, but as wrong as this would have been, it would have also been so hilarious that it would have likely become a global sensation that would have been talked about for a hundred years!!

[murray87]

Bob Huggins has no integrity

[Muskeagle]

The nuns threw rubber penises at Bob Huggins and UC.

That is QUITE a sentence!!!

Yunno, I kind of wish that had happened!! It's just too hilarious of a visual!!! It clearly didn't happen because there is no way that it could have, but as wrong as this would have been, it would have also been so hilarious that it would have likely become a global sensation that would have been talked about for a hundred years!!

Feels like maybe I saw this in a Mel Brooks movie.

[Masterofreality]

I’d like to know the exact year that the object throwing occurred. Never heard a thing about that, nor anything said on TV and I have all the Crosstown Shootouts recorded.

Thuggins claims 1) Dan Peters was his Assistant, 2)that Bilas was doing the game, but the only games at Xavier when Peters was Assistant was 1999 at the Gardens, 2001 in Cintas when UC won by 20 when David West got hurt and 2004 in the Lionel Chalmers game. If it was 2004, Bilas wasn’t in the booth. Len Elmore was the color guy. If it was 1999, Bilas didn’t do that game either. It was Dick Vitale as the color guy.
I doubt that Huggy would be mad about a game that he won by 20. I don’t think Bilas did that game either. I call total BS. Guess BeelzeBob was drunk again.
Further info that clarifies his BS is below that seems to narrow down the date of the event but nothing adds up as I detail above.

From the Canton Repository from a few days ago:

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/

[Leghorn]

Maybe it was the same year Cronin's dad had blue paint dumped all over him? Or was it the year Louis Orr was flipping off the UC bench the whole game? Maybe the game JP went after Cronin? It's hard to keep the stories straight they make up the years they lose to deflect from the loss.

[nuts4xu]

Maybe it was the same year Cronin's dad had blue paint dumped all over him? Or was it the year Louis Orr was flipping off the UC bench the whole game? Maybe the game JP went after Cronin? It's hard to keep the stories straight they make up the years they lose to deflect from the loss.

I was with Louis Orr on the bench during the game he was alleged to be flipping off Bob Huggins. I don't know about Louis but the rest of our bench was flipping off Huggins during the game.

At the start of a timeout, I see coach Huggins out of the corner of my eye approaching half court screaming obscenities. Our support staff returned fire, flipping birds, hurling our own obscenities in his direction. I don't recall our assistant coaches throwing up the middle finger, but I know for sure the managers, players, and trainers were more than glad to engage in the banter.

We later found out Coach Gillen called Huggins a "fucking crybaby" and ran into our huddle before the timeout started. That's why Huggins was nearly at half court screaming at our bench. Gillen penned a hand written letter to Huggins apologizing to him a few days after the game. He was to blame for starting that situation, and the players finished it by winning the game. Huggins was too butthurt to shake hands, and the rest (as they say) is history.

[murray87]

Huggs has quite the fascination with sex toys so maybe he could work his own NIL deal with Pure Romance or some place like it.

Could we arrange for a case of them to be shipped to him before he has to pack up his office?

[sirthought]

Peters was at UC from 1999-2004

When I heard the Huggins' story it did sound familiar to me, but I couldn't say when or where it happened.

I doubt that the traditional Cincinnati media would focus on it at all. They would have wanted to focus on the game and this is just too much to explain for an audience that would include minors. But it might have come up on sports talk radio.

If Peters' wife did collect them in her purse, she might have done it so quickly that a lot of people not near the bench didn't notice.

[BandAid]

I need a meme of Paul Rudd’s character from Anchorman turning to look directly into the camera while saying: “Dildogate!”

[D-West & PO-Z]

Peters was at UC from 1999-2004

When I heard the Huggins' story it did sound familiar to me, but I couldn't say when or where it happened.

I doubt that the traditional Cincinnati media would focus on it at all. They would have wanted to focus on the game and this is just too much to explain for an audience that would include minors. But it might have come up on sports talk radio.

If Peters' wife did collect them in her purse, she might have done it so quickly that a lot of people not near the bench didn't notice.

Please don't try and rationalize that buffoons lies, lmao.

No one noticed the multitude of huge (his implication) dildos thrown by Xavier nuns and "the whole arena" at Bob Huggins? Lunacy.

[paulxu]

This pretty simple. Just ask this Peters guy, or Mrs Peters if she took a purse full of peters to church and dumped them on the priest. Surprised no one has followed up on that. I think Huggy got his peters mixed up.

[sirthought]

Not rationalizing anything. Just sharing my reaction.

[sirthought]

This pretty simple. Just ask this Peters guy, or Mrs Peters if she took a purse full of peters to church and dumped them on the priest. Surprised no one has followed up on that. I think Huggy got his peters mixed up.

Peters died in 2014. I actually thought this same thing and was looking up where he's working now.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Not rationalizing anything. Just sharing my reaction.

P Doc would have written for weeks about the Xavier fans throwing dildos at Huggins.

[D-West & PO-Z]

This pretty simple. Just ask this Peters guy, or Mrs Peters if she took a purse full of peters to church and dumped them on the priest. Surprised no one has followed up on that. I think Huggy got his peters mixed up.

A friend of mine knows the Peters family. He's looking into it for me.

[drudy23]

P Doc would have written for weeks about the Xavier fans throwing dildos at Huggins.

Probably followed by a paragraph saying the Shootout has lost its luster.

[Three Point Pete]

There were nuns at Xavier? Sister Rose?This is my two cents. Huggins uses "nuns" referring to the Xavier team, not religious sisters. Not necessarily a derogatory anti-catholic remark, but more probably he meant it stereotypically indicating a really despised or pitied basketball team . I myself have said certain teams inflate their OOC schedule by playing The Poor Sisters of Mercy. (I know, l'm going to burn).

What I am not condoning is anyone using an anti-LBGTQ remark! Words are powerful and can hurt!


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[IM4X]

Huggins statement:

"Earlier today on a Cincinnati radio program, I was asked about the rivalry between my former employer, the University of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier University. During the conversation, I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for — and I won't try to make one here.
"I deeply apologize to the individuals I have offended, as well as to the Xavier University community, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University. As I have shared with my players over my 40 years of coaching, there are consequences for our words and actions, and I will fully accept any coming my way. I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will."

———-

I too never saw (nor heard of) anything being thrown at Huggins or onto the court. In fact, if X sues WVU and gets a settlement, I think those of us who were at any of the Crosstown Shootout games he was part of should get a cut. I’d happily testify under oath that I never saw any rubber penises on the court - just a one real dick sitting on a bench next to his UC players

[xubrew]

I think X could sue Huggins personally, but I'm not sure if they could sue WVU. Well, I suppose they COULD. You can sue anyone for anything. But I don't see it going anywhere.

I don't know EXACTLY how that works. He is a WVU employee. But I don't think his comments could be directly attributed to WVU.

Now, I don't think X is going to sue anyone, nor do I think they should. But even if they wanted to sue I really don't think they have any sort of a case against WVU

[xudash]

I think X could sue Huggins personally, but I'm not sure if they could sue WVU. Well, I suppose they COULD. You can sue anyone for anything. But I don't see it going anywhere.

I don't know EXACTLY how that works. He is a WVU employee. But I don't think his comments could be directly attributed to WVU.

Now, I don't think X is going to sue anyone, nor do I think they should. But even if they wanted to sue I really don't think they have any sort of a case against WVU

Huggins Stadium at Xavier University. The dedication would be epic.

[paulxu]

I'm thinking every time his team is on the road this year, opposing fans may be tossing rubber objects on the floor.

[X-band '01]

More like every time West Virginia AND Xavier are on the road. I'm sure the Butler fans will be classy as always.

[Masterofreality]

Here’s the thing to me. The news media sure does make sure that they throw in disclaimers to the story when it is about something they dislike.
There is zero evidence that what Huggins alledged ever occurred. Why in the Enquirer story about Huggins’ mess up, the story about his apology and then the second story of his 2nd apology was there not a disclaimer that stated “Huggins said “without evidence or corroboration” that Xavier fans threw…..”.
Seems like that would be a pretty important thing to make clear. It still hangs the university with a bad bag around its neck.

[xu82]

Huggins Stadium at Xavier University. The dedication would be epic.

Could we just name a bathroom stall after him and put up some kind of plaque on the crapper? That has a nice ring to it!

[nickgyp]

Here’s the thing to me. The news media sure does make sure that they throw in disclaimers to the story when it is about something they dislike.
There is zero evidence that what Huggins alledged ever occurred. Why in the Enquirer story about Huggins’ mess up, the story about his apology and then the second story of his 2nd apology was there not a disclaimer that stated “Huggins said “without evidence or corroboration” that Xavier fans threw…..”.
Seems like that would be a pretty important thing to make clear. It still hangs the university with a bad bag around its neck.

You are absolutely correct. Sports Illustrated article by Pat Forde mentions the incident as if it happened. Two Twitter posters say that they saw it happen. Unless there is proof of this incident then it should be described in terms as you describe. The press seems to say “so-called” a lot especially when describing conservative groups but, hey, it is all free speech.

[XUGRAD80]

I’d like to know the exact year that the object throwing occurred. Never heard a thing about that, nor anything said on TV and I have all the Crosstown Shootouts recorded.

Thuggins claims 1) Dan Peters was his Assistant, 2)that Bilas was doing the game, but the only games at Xavier when Peters was Assistant was 1999 at the Gardens, 2001 in Cintas when UC won by 20 when David West got hurt and 2004 in the Lionel Chalmers game. If it was 2004, Bilas wasn’t in the booth. Len Elmore was the color guy. If it was 1999, Bilas didn’t do that game either. It was Dick Vitale as the color guy.
I doubt that Huggy would be mad about a game that he won by 20. I don’t think Bilas did that game either. I call total BS. Guess BeelzeBob was drunk again.
Further info that clarifies his BS is below that seems to narrow down the date of the event but nothing adds up as I detail above.

From the Canton Repository from a few days ago:

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/


Larry Conley was the color guy in 2001

[X-band '01]

So you're telling me instead of D-fense, our students were chanting P-Ness?

[XUBison]

…Seems like that would be a pretty important thing to make clear. It still hangs the university with a bad bag around its neck.

Yeah, a bag of dicks no less.

[Masterofreality]

Larry Conley was the color guy in 2001

Thanks! I was gonna look that up but ya saved me the trouble.
So Jay Bilas never did a Shootout during the time that Dan Peters was Huggins Assistant.
Seems like any media or reporter with an interest in getting the facts correct would want to point that out?
Welcome to the latest chapter of “Journalism is Dead”.

[paulxu]

I still think someone should inquire of Mrs Peters about the bag o' dicks she dropped off at the church.

[Blue Blooded-05]

One of my favorite standup bits of all time: https://youtu.be/PgQ7LSs7ZqA

Warning: language NSFW

[noteggs]

Pub reps. That was funny

[xudash]

Dildo. Sorry, I meant ditto.

[xuphan]

Oh the full story from Huggins is even more wild:

""They threw rubber penises at us. Not just the nuns, I mean the whole arena. The whole arena. That's the truth, now. They (the rubber penises) were about that big they were about that long. ... So they threw these rubber penises at us, and Nancy Peters, Coach Pete's (Dan Peters') wife, went around and gathered them all up and put 'em in her purse. and then she went to church the next day and went up and saw the priest and dumped them out ... and she says, this is what happens at your school. He said, 'They didn't do that. The nuns wouldn't do that. They wouldn't allow that.' She said, 'Well, where do you think they came from? You think I carry these around?'"

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/ (https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/05/08/what-did-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-radio-xavier-canton-ohio-west-virginia-basketball-coach/70195796007/)

One dildo was thrown at a Bills game and it is still talked about. Yet enough to fill a purse were thrown at the Crosstown shootout and not one person remembers it.

Wow! Good ole Bob Huggins for you. Can we schedule a home and home with West Virginia? I think it should be part of Bobs “punishment”.

[xubrew]

Wow! Good ole Bob Huggins for you. Can we schedule a home and home with West Virginia? I think it should be part of Bobs “punishment”.

I suddenly want to play West Virginia more than any other team!!!!!!!

[IM4X]

One of my favorite standup bits of all time: https://youtu.be/PgQ7LSs7ZqA

Warning: language NSFW


No question Louis CK is funny. I just feel sometimes I’d wish he’d stop after he sticks the landing of a joke. Sometimes, he will continue to drag the idea out to make it as disturbing as possible.

[XProf]

There are so many unanswered questions here.... So, how did such an event get organized? Like a white out? Where were the students able to procure so many rubber penises? Did they hide them on the way in to the arena? How was Mrs. Peters (coincidental last name) able to get on the court and round them all up without any tv or radio coverage of the event? Did she just happen to have a purse that could fit so many? Why would she blame the priest for the actions of the students? What happened to them after she dumped them at the church? Did some poor alter boy have to dispose of them?

[Masterofreality]

There are so many unanswered questions here.... So, how did such an event get organized? Like a white out? Where were the students able to procure so many rubber penises? Did they hide them on the way in to the arena? How was Mrs. Peters (coincidental last name) able to get on the court and round them all up without any tv or radio coverage of the event? Did she just happen to have a purse that could fit so many? Why would she blame the priest for the actions of the students? What happened to them after she dumped them at the church? Did some poor alter boy have to dispose of them?

There are no answers to BeelzeBob’s Fever Dream

[UCGRAD4X]

No question Louis CK is funny. I just feel sometimes I’d wish he’d stop after he sticks the landing of a joke. Sometimes, he will continue to drag the idea out to make it as disturbing as possible.

Reminds me of Johnny Carson's 'rule of three' - never take more than three bites on a topic.

[STL_XUfan]

Reminds me of Johnny Carson's 'rule of three' - never take more than three bites on a topic.
With the title of this thread I was really worried that going to go a different direction.

[xu82]

Reminds me of Johnny Carson's 'rule of three' - never take more than three bites on a topic.

The Master. Nobody was better than Johnny, and when he was done, he just disappeared. Good for him.

[IM4X]

Reminds me of Johnny Carson's 'rule of three' - never take more than three bites on a topic.

Yes… and with this topic, you might one to avoid even taking one bite.

[X-band '01]

There are so many unanswered questions here.... So, how did such an event get organized? Like a white out? Where were the students able to procure so many rubber penises? Did they hide them on the way in to the arena? How was Mrs. Peters (coincidental last name) able to get on the court and round them all up without any tv or radio coverage of the event? Did she just happen to have a purse that could fit so many? Why would she blame the priest for the actions of the students? What happened to them after she dumped them at the church? Did some poor alter boy have to dispose of them?

I just hope she was wearing gloves when handling the dongers.

[MADXSTER]

I used to say 'If my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle', but that may not be the case anymore.

[xudash]

Seriously, has anyone come up with any kind of inkling as to whether this incident occurred or not?

[paulxu]

Seriously, has anyone come up with any kind of inkling as to whether this incident occurred or not?

Amazing that no one has tracked down Mrs Peters yet to ask her.

[XUGRAD80]

Seriously, has anyone come up with any kind of inkling as to whether this incident occurred or not?

Couldn’t have happen as Huggs said it did….
1) there are no nuns at X, other than Sister Rose
2) Jay Bilas was not the color guy on any of the games at X during the 1999-2004 period where Peters was an assistant coach at UC

The only d**k on the floor at those games was the big guy who tells the story

[noteggs]

Amazing that no one has tracked down Mrs Peters yet to ask her.

Rumor has it her son Danny had some on his desk when he was an assistant here (sarc font of course). Just shows how ridiculous Hugg’s comment truly was.

[chico]

Amazing that no one has tracked down Mrs Peters yet to ask her.

Maybe someone has mentioned this already, but anyone find it ironic that Huggins claimed it was Peters who picked up the peters?

[nuts4xu]

One of my favorite standup bits of all time: https://youtu.be/PgQ7LSs7ZqA

Warning: language NSFW

I had no idea he heard me! Ha, this is great!

If you look through my old posts on this board I was telling everyone they could eat a bag of dicks!

[xudash]

Caught this in an article from the Boston Globe:

..... The $1 million slashed from Huggins’s salary (how will he get by on a mere $3.2 million a year?) will go directly to the campus groups that support marginalized communities, and Huggins said he is donating another $1 million to Xavier’s Center for Faith and Justice and its Center for Diversity and Inclusion.

I was expecting "sizeable contribution" in his case (to Xavier) to be in the $50,000 to $100,000 range. If he actually is coughing up $1mm to X, then I'm rather impressed.

[Three Point Pete]

Check article on Second Chances:

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_commentaries/hoppy-kercheval-huggins-gets-an-important-second-chance-opinion/article_8565b441-218c-5c8f-b541-6940e39fcb6f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

Apparently, 1 million of his salary goes to WVU Carruth center and "other institutions supporting marginalized communities." Xavier gets "sizeable" contribution.

Other sanctions involve a 3 game suspension and one year probationary contract with immediate termination for the same behavior.

Old Bob dodged the bullet and is still hanging around. Maybe the portal transfer players will stick with him, and maybe WVU values teaching its students that winning basketball games is better than a good moral compass!

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[paulxu]

Huggy going to huggy.

https://twitter.com/CBBcontent/status/1670054980504436737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1670054980504436737%7Ctwgr% 5Ef22cd70f978195078dcadd61cf28a9438ce120eb%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketballforum.com%2Fth reads%2Fmiscellaneous-stuf.682739%2Fpage-81

[GoMuskies]

What a complete fucking loser.

[X-band '01]

That must have been a fun night at the Allegheny County Jail.

[xu82]

Is he going to take another pay cut? Maybe he should pay THEM for the right to coach for a few years?

[paulxu]

“West Virginia University is aware of an incident last night involving Head Men’s Basketball Coach Bob Huggins, for which he was charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in the City of Pittsburgh. We are gathering more information and will take appropriate action once the review is complete.”
WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

https://www.wdtv.com/2023/06/17/bob-huggins-arrested-dui/

Big reflection session on its way.

[smileyy]

Who had "fired for cause" on their bingo card? Most of us, huh?

[noteggs]

Will X still get its donation if he gets canned?

[bobbiemcgee]

I'd take his recruits

[Xville]

I guess another 2 million or whatever will be taken off. I really doubt wvu cares about a dui.

[xu82]

I guess another 2 million or whatever will be taken off. I really doubt wvu cares about a dui.

Can a coach get NIL with liquor companies? This could be a windfall!!

[xudash]

From the official complaint:

“Huggins was unable to say where he was.”
“Huggins told Officer Bertan he remembered stopping at Burger King.”
“A few times, Huggins stated that he was in Columbus. He could not tell us how he got to this location.”
“Huggins was unable to explain how his tire got shredded.”

[JEHARDI]

From the official complaint:

“Huggins was unable to say where he was.”
“Huggins told Officer Bertan he remembered stopping at Burger King.”
“A few times, Huggins stated that he was in Columbus. He could not tell us how he got to this location.”
“Huggins was unable to explain how his tire got shredded.”

He is done.

[xukeith]

He resigned per Rothstein on Twitter.

[American X]

From the official complaint:

“Huggins was unable to say where he was.”
“Huggins told Officer Bertan he remembered stopping at Burger King.”
“A few times, Huggins stated that he was in Columbus. He could not tell us how he got to this location.”
“Huggins was unable to explain how his tire got shredded.”

This is the best Fathers Day gift I have ever received.

[paulxu]

https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/bob-huggins-resigns-as-west-virginia-coach-after-dui-arrest/

[Xville]

Can’t believe wvu actually have a crap this time. I don’t but almost feel sorry for the dude. He needs serious help, pretty obvious the guy is an alcoholic

[UCGRAD4X]

https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/bob-huggins-resigns-as-west-virginia-coach-after-dui-arrest/

This is the first post I've seen that also mentions his anticatholic comments.

I'm surprised that this is only his second DUI and first since the Fairfax debacle. My guess is that he would have / should have many more but for being Bob Huggins.

[noteggs]

Wonder how long he was driving on the flat tire before he realized.

[UCGRAD4X]

Wonder how long he was driving on the flat tire before he realized.

From Columbus apparently.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Good riddance. Hope he gets the treatment he clearly needs. He was enabled by many people at many schools for a long time because he was a really good basketball coach. Not a fan, but hope he doesn't drink himself to death in retirement.

[Masterofreality]

My post mortem on BeelzeBob:
Good riddance to a guy who was a horrible human being personally but was celebrated because he could “sort of” Coach basketball.
First the basketball. Hey!! 2 Final Fours!! Welp, one was in a year where the entire bracket fell apart in front of him and he never had to beat a higher seed despite his team being a 4 seed and he lost to a 6 seed. The other was in a year where he took over a well coached group from John Beilein and, I guess was smart enough not to change the well-oiled system for a year? That team with Beilein as a coach was National Championship material.
Xavier, due to proximity, never bought into the Thuggins “Bad Boy” fear cause X players played against Clifton players in summer league and knew they weren’t all that. Clifton may have intimidated other teams with their black unis and scowls but X never worried about that. Hence Chuggs losing record vs us. His open post offense was easily defensed but his teams lived on rebounding trash shots & bully boy crap. Highly overrated.
Morally, who can forget his zero grad rates at Clifton (During four of his years as Cincinnati's head coach, his graduation rate was 0%; that is, none of his players earned a degree), a bar brawl with oppo fans with Andy Kennedy after an NCAA loss to Gonzaga, cheating on his wife with a booster’s wife, (allegedly), recruiting true scofflaws who raped (Ruben Patterson) , shop lifted and never saw the inside of a classroom, getting caught for a DUI and puking on the side of his car endangering people, ignoring rules such as with Dumbtonio Wingfield who magically appeared in Cincinnati one day from South Georgia to go to high school, and had drunk assistants like Andy Kennedy (racist cab driver incident) to be his yes men, and, of course, his drunken (?) homophobic and anti-Catholic slurs? Even ESPN published a story about CCC’s top 1O basketball criminals a few years ago. Oh, and don’t forget the 3 year NCAA probation he was placed on that lawyers saved from being a Tournament ban from Thuggs’ malfeasance.
It’s past time this pax on college basketball is gone, finally, from a drunken egregious disgrace of a DUI that endangered hundreds. Thank Gawd for a tire shred!
So, OK, get help Boobie, but no one shed tears for a miserable human with no moral compass who happened to coach basketball. GTFOH and stay out.
No one will have the guts to exponge his name from the Hall of Fame though. The cowards, and that is too bad.

[murray87]

Did Xavier cash his check yet??

[Final4]

My post mortem on BeelzeBob:
Good riddance to a guy who was a horrible human being personally but was celebrated because he could “sort of” Coach basketball.
First the basketball. Hey!! 2 Final Fours!! Welp, one was in a year where the entire bracket fell apart in front of him and he never had to beat a higher seed despite his team being a 4 seed and he lost to a 6 seed. The other was in a year where he took over a well coached group from John Beilein and, I guess was smart enough not to change the well-oiled system for a year? That team with Beilein as a coach was National Championship material.
Xavier, due to proximity, never bought into the Thuggins “Bad Boy” fear cause X players played against Clifton players in summer league and knew they weren’t all that. Clifton may have intimidated other teams with their black unis and scowls but X never worried about that. Hence Chuggs losing record vs us. His open post offense was easily defensed but his teams lived on rebounding trash shots & bully boy crap. Highly overrated.
Morally, who can forget his zero grad rates at Clifton (During four of his years as Cincinnati's head coach, his graduation rate was 0%; that is, none of his players earned a degree), a bar brawl with oppo fans with Andy Kennedy after an NCAA loss to Gonzaga, cheating on his wife with a booster’s wife, (allegedly), recruiting true scofflaws who raped (Ruben Patterson) , shop lifted and never saw the inside of a classroom, getting caught for a DUI and puking on the side of his car endangering people, ignoring rules such as with Dumbtonio Wingfield who magically appeared in Cincinnati one day from South Georgia to go to high school, and had drunk assistants like Andy Kennedy (racist cab driver incident) to be his yes men, and, of course, his drunken (?) homophobic and anti-Catholic slurs? Even ESPN published a story about CCC’s top 1O basketball criminals a few years ago. Oh, and don’t forget the 3 year NCAA probation he was placed on that lawyers saved from being a Tournament ban from Thuggs’ malfeasance.
It’s past time this pax on college basketball is gone, finally, from a drunken egregious disgrace of a DUI that endangered hundreds. Thank Gawd for a tire shred!
So, OK, get help Boobie, but no one shed tears for a miserable human with no moral compass who happened to coach basketball. GTFOH and stay out.
No one will have the guts to exponge his name from the Hall of Fame though. The cowards, and that is too bad.


MOR never misses an opportunity to kick someone when they're down. Well played.

[GoMuskies]

Kicking Huggins when he's down? I'll allow it.

[xuphan]

I'd take his recruits

You want Huggins sloppy seconds?

[Final4]

Kicking Huggins when he's down? I'll allow it.

I'm guessing you never had a friend or family member who struggled with alcoholism which may explain your cavalier response.

[GoMuskies]

I'm guessing you never had a friend or family member who struggled with alcoholism which may explain your cavalier response.

Bob Huggins is and always has been a piece of shit whether sober or drunk.

[nuts4xu]

I'm guessing you never had a friend or family member who struggled with alcoholism which may explain your cavalier response.

I have, and I have true empathy for those who struggle with addiction. People who have taken step 1 and admitted they are powerless to their addiction. The folks that realize the hurt and damage they have done to their families and truly want to get better. Relapse is often part of recovery, so i feel for those who stumble here and there. It doesn't always stick the first, second, or third time, but some people keep fighting and working to stay sober.

Bob has had plenty of "rock bottom" life moments when he was faced with a choice to continue drinking. If this was a relapse, after years of attending meetings, and taking steps to keep himself clean, I would have more sympathy for the guy. Hell, I don't know the guy's personal business, I guess it's possible (but given his behavior, I doubt this to be the case).

He isn't going to change. The man is 69 years old, why quit drinking how that he is retired? He can wake up with a morning beer, and drink all freaking day. My hope for him isn't to change or to stop drinking, I just hope someone shows him how to add the UBER or LYFT apps to his phone, and he stops getting behind the wheel so hammered drunk he doesn't know where he's at. I have no issues with him getting black out drunk, just plan ahead and get a ride home.

He has been an entertaining villain for Xavier for over 30 years. Gonna miss all the content he has provided to these message boards over the years.

[Blue Blooded-05]

Bob Huggins has (in all likelihood) finished his head coaching career with an 8 - 11 record vs Xavier.

[Masterofreality]

Just for the record.
We have 3 alcoholics in our family.
It wasn’t always easy but after a couple of family interventions, they realized they needed help. One relapsed, but got back on track. They all hit the meetings.
Thuggins isn’t that. He is a guy who thinks he’s Superman, can flaunt any rules- whether they be with alcohol, NCAA rules, academic rules, university rules, health rule advisories, marital rules, whatever- and get away with no consequences and with no regard for anyone else. He got a DUI once in Cincy, how many more unknown ones in Morgantown and hasn’t changed. He had a heart attack and within a year was as bloated as before.
He got held accountable once by Nancy Zimpher, and she was pilloried for trying to teach him a lesson, but ol Huggs just kept right along.
Sorry. No sympathy for someone who made little or no effort to change unlike those in my family.
Zero props for being forced to accept reality and punishment because he was too full of hubris to change even after all the warnings.
Bye Bye.

[MHettel]

Gotta say also that I have zero sympathy for WVU. They willfully selected this guy to lead their team. This didnt happen out of nowhere. ALL SIGNS pointed to Huggins being a scumbag.

Dance with the devil.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Gotta say also that I have zero sympathy for WVU. They willfully selected this guy to lead their team. This didnt happen out of nowhere. ALL SIGNS pointed to Huggins being a scumbag.

Dance with the devil.

I'm not sure WVU is too broken up about it honestly. They got 15 pretty good years out of Huggins but they only have 1 tourney win the last 5 years and now they can move on without paying him some big payout.

Obviously they risk a shitty hire but again, it's not like Huggins has been killing it there the last half decade.

I guess they could have done the same thing 6 weeks ago, but then they did get his contract reduced and down to only 1 year remaining on his deal.

[drudy23]

I'm sure Huggie is riding into the sunset with something. Not sure how many years are left on his contract, but a likely negotiation point as part of his "resignation".

[sirthought]

I'm sure Huggie is riding into the sunset with something. Not sure how many years are left on his contract, but a likely negotiation point as part of his "resignation".

After the radio incident, they had him on a year-by-year contract. At least that's what they said. He resigned, but with this being a for cause termination-worthy transgression, I think WVU will try to hold on to it's money tightly.

He's rich. It won't matter. But he might need to make sure his wife doesn't leave him with little to show for his accomplishments.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I'm sure Huggie is riding into the sunset with something. Not sure how many years are left on his contract, but a likely negotiation point as part of his "resignation".

My understanding is it was changed to a 1 year contract and they could get out with no buyout if there was another incident.

[xubrew]

Just for the record.
We have 3 alcoholics in our family.
It wasn’t always easy but after a couple of family interventions, they realized they needed help. One relapsed, but got back on track. They all hit the meetings.
Thuggins isn’t that. He is a guy who thinks he’s Superman, can flaunt any rules- whether they be with alcohol, NCAA rules, academic rules, university rules, health rule advisories, marital rules, whatever- and get away with no consequences and with no regard for anyone else. He got a DUI once in Cincy, how many more unknown ones in Morgantown and hasn’t changed. He had a heart attack and within a year was as bloated as before.
He got held accountable once by Nancy Zimpher, and she was pilloried for trying to teach him a lesson, but ol Huggs just kept right along.
Sorry. No sympathy for someone who made little or no effort to change unlike those in my family.
Zero props for being forced to accept reality and punishment because he was too full of hubris to change even after all the warnings.
Bye Bye.

I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you because I'm not. A lot of people say this. The truth was...he wasn't held accountable. They paid him his contract, and a year later he was back in coaching and pulling in checks from two schools. The joke was that only Bob Huggins could get a DUI and end up making an extra $3 million dollars because of it.

As for the rest of your post, I'm glad to hear that your family members got through it. I personally made a decision a long time ago to never condemn anyone who has a substance abuse problem no matter how much or how little I like them. I've had my own issues and made my own bad choices, and to do so would be hypocritical. I get that a lot of people will chime in, and I suppose it's fair game since he is a public figure, and what does it really matter what people say anyway?? I do think alcohol/substance abuse is more rampant in college athletics, and in college coaching in particular, than what most people realize. I don't really feel sorry for him, but I do kind of hope that he realizes he's actually lucky. He's still got a chance to get over this and probably feel better about his life once he does. Sometimes what feels like the most embarrassing and humiliating and scary experiences in the moment turns out to feel like one of the luckiest things you've ever experienced when you look back on it and see how much better your life has been since then. And, it's also better to have your career crash and burn at 69 than at 29.

[Masterofreality]

I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you because I'm not. A lot of people say this. The truth was...he wasn't held accountable. They paid him his contract, and a year later he was back in coaching and pulling in checks from two schools. The joke was that only Bob Huggins could get a DUI and end up making an extra $3 million dollars because of it.

As for the rest of your post, I'm glad to hear that your family members got through it. I personally made a decision a long time ago to never condemn anyone who has a substance abuse problem no matter how much or how little I like them. I've had my own issues and made my own bad choices, and to do so would be hypocritical. I get that a lot of people will chime in, and I suppose it's fair game since he is a public figure, and what does it really matter what people say anyway?? I do think alcohol/substance abuse is more rampant in college athletics, and in college coaching in particular, than what most people realize. I don't really feel sorry for him, but I do kind of hope that he realizes he's actually lucky. He's still got a chance to get over this and probably feel better about his life once he does. Sometimes what feels like the most embarrassing and humiliating and scary experiences in the moment turns out to feel like one of the luckiest things you've ever experienced when you look back on it and see how much better your life has been since then. And, it's also better to have your career crash and burn at 69 than at 29.

Thanks Brew. At least there was an attempt to hold him accountable by a job loss that a place where he was an icon, he apparently loved and could stay for his entire career. Zimpher tried, but like I said, Thuggs just moved on.
I appreciate your thoughts about my family members. Every day is a new day and it’s one day at a time, but they have support and realize what’s at stake. Chuggs apparently never did, until now.

[MHettel]

This isn’t JUST about Bobs alcohol problem. If not for the radio incident just 6 weeks ago, Bob probably survives this DUI.

Huggins is a scumbag. He’s also an alcoholic. One of those is about character and the other is a disease.

Huggins gets no sympathy because of his character. I’m spite of his disease

[Masterofreality]

This isn’t JUST about Bobs alcohol problem. If not for the radio incident just 6 weeks ago, Bob probably survives this DUI.

Huggins is a scumbag. He’s also an alcoholic. One of those is about character and the other is a disease.

Huggins gets no sympathy because of his character. I’m spite of his disease

This. Add ARROGANT Scumbag

[Final4]

Just for the record.
We have 3 alcoholics in our family.
It wasn’t always easy but after a couple of family interventions, they realized they needed help. One relapsed, but got back on track. They all hit the meetings.
Thuggins isn’t that. He is a guy who thinks he’s Superman, can flaunt any rules- whether they be with alcohol, NCAA rules, academic rules, university rules, health rule advisories, marital rules, whatever- and get away with no consequences and with no regard for anyone else. He got a DUI once in Cincy, how many more unknown ones in Morgantown and hasn’t changed. He had a heart attack and within a year was as bloated as before.
He got held accountable once by Nancy Zimpher, and she was pilloried for trying to teach him a lesson, but ol Huggs just kept right along.
Sorry. No sympathy for someone who made little or no effort to change unlike those in my family.
Zero props for being forced to accept reality and punishment because he was too full of hubris to change even after all the warnings.
Bye Bye.


Just like death and taxes there is one other certainty in life........you can always count on MOR to double down on dumb. Poor guy just can't seem to get out of his own way.

[X-band '01]

Master, come clean. How many jilted lovers did you have back in the day? Clearly Final4 has to be one.

[Masterofreality]

Master, come clean. How many jilted lovers did you have back in the day? Clearly Final4 has to be one.

Not telling, but I’ll tell you that I ignored them too.
Too bad for them that they were too weak to take it. ;-)

[American X]

Please some desperate program hire Bob Huggins and do it all again. He cannot stay out of the game completely. He completes us. Does Dayton need a coach?

[XUBison]

Please some desperate program hire Bob Huggins and do it all again. He cannot stay out of the game completely. He completes us. Does Dayton need a coach?

Oh, gross.

[X-band '01]

He's holding out for Memphis and going out with a real bang.

[GoMuskies]

If Wichita State could have held out just a little bit longer on hiring a coach...

[boozehound]

This isn’t JUST about Bobs alcohol problem. If not for the radio incident just 6 weeks ago, Bob probably survives this DUI.

Huggins is a scumbag. He’s also an alcoholic. One of those is about character and the other is a disease.

Huggins gets no sympathy because of his character. I’m spite of his disease

Even by Bob Huggins' standards he has been on a downward spiral lately. I agree that the (almost definitely wasted drunk) radio interview very likely contributed to this DUI being the final straw. I think Huggins is probably a bad guy even if he wasn't an alcoholic, but it definitely is a contributing factor. Hopefully he gets the help he needs, but I doubt it's going to transform him into a good person.

[UCGRAD4X]

teams may like the idea of the winningest active coach who is three (two REALLY good) seasons away from 1000 wins

talk about a splash hire - if you're willing to risk whiskey and puke splashing all over you program

[xubrew]

teams may like the idea of the winningest active coach who is three (two REALLY good) seasons away from 1000 wins

talk about a splash hire - if you're willing to risk whiskey and puke splashing all over you program

I think he'll get another chance if he really wants one. He's still far more liked than disliked in most college basketball circles (albeit not this circle).

Also, most of his big time issues seem to have happened in the offseason. He might actually be one of these people that manages substance abuse a lot better when he's got something to keep him busy. He's one of those guys that you don't start to really worry about until they're away on vacation.

[bjf123]

teams may like the idea of the winningest active coach who is three (two REALLY good) seasons away from 1000 wins

talk about a splash hire - if you're willing to risk whiskey and puke splashing all over you program

Just put a clause in the contract that he must have a driver / handler at all times


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[GoMuskies]

Just put a clause in the contract that he must have a driver / handler at all times


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The Josh Hamilton clause

[sirthought]

I doubt a Catholic program like Dayton would take him after his comments. Bad look to their own base. He was mostly trash talking, but still.

I could actually see Huggins doing what a number of other head coaches have done at this stage of their career...become a well-paid assistant on a solid competitive team. Less direct pressure. Still major perks.

[MHettel]

I doubt a Catholic program like Dayton would take him after his comments. Bad look to their own base. He was mostly trash talking, but still.

I could actually see Huggins doing what a number of other head coaches have done at this stage of their career...become a well-paid assistant on a solid competitive team. Less direct pressure. Still major perks.

Yeah that makes sense. Seeing as how Fat Bob always seems to shy away from being the center of attention and all.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I doubt a Catholic program like Dayton would take him after his comments. Bad look to their own base. He was mostly trash talking, but still.

I could actually see Huggins doing what a number of other head coaches have done at this stage of their career...become a well-paid assistant on a solid competitive team. Less direct pressure. Still major perks.

I couldn't see that at all.

Phil Martelli was fired for performance before he did it. Who else are you referencing?

[GIMMFD]

Even by Bob Huggins' standards he has been on a downward spiral lately. I agree that the (almost definitely wasted drunk) radio interview very likely contributed to this DUI being the final straw. I think Huggins is probably a bad guy even if he wasn't an alcoholic, but it definitely is a contributing factor. Hopefully he gets the help he needs, but I doubt it's going to transform him into a good person.

Yep, having close connections to WVU obviously myself it's so infuriating to see how people enabled his behavior over the years. You think any WV state trooper wanted to be the guy to bust Huggins with a DUI? Nope, they just ensure he made it back to his place. Dude thinks he's in Columbus, blows a .2 with a ripped out tire and beer cans throughout his truck, that's a problem. He needs to get some help, especially since his health is so poor. Then you have the alumni and donors at WVU that are pushing extra hard to get a Huggins disciple, or suggest a "rehab" stint and rehire, it's kind of ludacris. I will say though, every interaction I've had with him at the country club bar in my hometown in WV was really pleasant, and the staff says when he rents out the place that he was nice and courteous, my close friend that played basketball at WVU however said he's kind of a dickhead, so I think the mindset Xavier fans have had of him (rightfully so) is probably spot on. Just sad that people in the athletics department and ones surrounding him let it get it this bad and stay this bad.

[XUBison]

I couldn't see that at all.

Phil Martelli was fired for performance before he did it. Who else are you referencing?

I don’t see Huggins doing this either, but Gene Keady and Larry Brown are obvious examples.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I don’t see Huggins doing this either, but Gene Keady and Larry Brown are obvious examples.

Didn't realize Brown was an assistant at Memphis for a year. Although he was 80 years old. Keady I kind of forgot about too but was 74-79 while an assistant at St. Johns.

[XUGRAD80]

I don’t see Huggins doing this either, but Gene Keady and Larry Brown are obvious examples.

Phil Martelli is another. It seems to be more prevalent in college FB, but that’s probably only because they have much much larger staffs. I’m sure if we looked that we could find numerous examples. However, I don’t see Huggs going that route either. I’d guess that he’s done.

[xukeith]

I think Huggins will coach again. Not this season.

[Masterofreality]

I think Huggins will coach again. Not this season.

In the WNBA I hope!

[D-West & PO-Z]

I think Huggins will coach again. Not this season.

I would not be surprised by this either. Especially if he shows some school he went through some rehab program.

Huggins seems like the coach college basketball until I die type coach.

[smileyy]

In the WNBA I hope!

The W deserves far better than that.

[Masterofreality]

The W deserves far better than that.

Of course, but he doesn’t

[GoMuskies]

This is getting amazing!

https://www.on3.com/college/west-virginia-mountaineers/news/bob-huggins-says-he-never-retired-threatening-to-sue-if-west-virginia-doesnt-reinstate-him/

[D-West & PO-Z]

This is getting amazing!

https://www.on3.com/college/west-virginia-mountaineers/news/bob-huggins-says-he-never-retired-threatening-to-sue-if-west-virginia-doesnt-reinstate-him/

Rehab's going well I see......

[MHettel]

Unbelievable. Really.

He wants to be “reinstated” only so they can fire him. Then he goes after severance. That’s all this is.

He’s an idiot. Instead of calling his PR person, his agent, and his lawyer when this all went down, he decided he was smart enough to handle it all himself. And now, he wants a re-do.

I really hopes this drags out and becomes messy. Huggins deserves this, cause he’s a scumbag. WVU deserves this cause they hired a scumbag.

[GIMMFD]

This is getting amazing!

https://www.on3.com/college/west-virginia-mountaineers/news/bob-huggins-says-he-never-retired-threatening-to-sue-if-west-virginia-doesnt-reinstate-him/

This is so embarrassing, also claiming he didn't resign but it was his wife that resigned for him... what in the hell, just burning any good will he could have left with. The sad part is you see bozos on twitter saying things like "we stand with you Coach Huggins"... HOW??? HOW IN THE WORLD??

[xukeith]

His family is watching the $ train roll away.

[murray87]

This guy is really amazing. Train wreck doesn't quite capture things. Dumpster fire?

[UCGRAD4X]

This guy is really amazing. Train wreck doesn't quite capture things. Dumpster fire?

A dumpster, filled with tires, on fire, on a train, going over a cliff, into a volcano of bat shit.

[XUWahoo]

Unbelievable. Really.

He wants to be “reinstated” only so they can fire him. Then he goes after severance. That’s all this is.

He’s an idiot. Instead of calling his PR person, his agent, and his lawyer when this all went down, he decided he was smart enough to handle it all himself. And now, he wants a re-do.

I really hopes this drags out and becomes messy. Huggins deserves this, cause he’s a scumbag. WVU deserves this cause they hired a scumbag.

Didn't Huggins have a meeting with his team beforehand to inform them of his plans to resign regardless of the source of the email resignation and thus further evidence that he did, in fact, intend to resign? Wouldn't proper legal protocol be to send any resignation letter via certified letter instead of an email with a so-called disputed source?

[muskiefan82]

This will be even more fun if he claims that the resignation cannot be considered legal since he was drunk when it was submitted.

[xubrew]

This is getting amazing!

https://www.on3.com/college/west-virginia-mountaineers/news/bob-huggins-says-he-never-retired-threatening-to-sue-if-west-virginia-doesnt-reinstate-him/

I cannot stop laughing at this!!!! He has no shame!! It's almost admirable how little of a fuck he actually gives! And...this could ACTUALLY work!! He wants a severance. That's ALL this is. And there's a good chance he'll end up getting it. Once again, he gets a DUI, and it turns out to be a financial asset!!

And the thing is...he WILL get another coaching job if he wants one. Despite ALL THIS!! He has a much better chance of being rehired than a coach who followed all the rules and was an ideal role model, but didn't win enough.

[bjf123]

A dumpster, filled with tires, on fire, on a train, going over a cliff, into a volcano of bat shit.

Public reps for a great visual image!


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[MHettel]

I cannot stop laughing at this!!!! He has no shame!! It's almost admirable how little of a fuck he actually gives! And...this could ACTUALLY work!! He wants a severance. That's ALL this is. And there's a good chance he'll end up getting it. Once again, he gets a DUI, and it turns out to be a financial asset!!

And the thing is...he WILL get another coaching job if he wants one. Despite ALL THIS!! He has a much better chance of being rehired than a coach who followed all the rules and was an ideal role model, but didn't win enough.

First of all, there is NOTHING admirable about Bob Huggins. Hes a scumbag.

He's so devoid of ANY redeeming qualities that when on the rare occasion he just does the MINIMUM that a decent person would do, it's considered newsworthy somehow. The one image is when he consoled an injured player.....which coach WOULDNT do that? And yet the 99 out of 100 other coaches that would normally do this dont make the 5 o'clock news because they actually have a little bit of integrity and the actions were simply expected of them.

Also, who in their right mind would hire this fat slob? He got fired from UC for a DUI and whole litany of insubordinate and negligent acts. he went to KSU and left them high and dry after 1 year. Then he goes to WVU and flames out with ANOTHER DUI. Oh, and then pulls this shenanigan which will likely end him up on court with his former employer / alma mater.

I'd love to see which Athletic Director has the balls to take the idea to hire Huggins to his University President.

[xuphan]

First of all, there is NOTHING admirable about Bob Huggins. Hes a scumbag.

He's so devoid of ANY redeeming qualities that when on the rare occasion he just does the MINIMUM that a decent person would do, it's considered newsworthy somehow. The one image is when he consoled an injured player.....which coach WOULDNT do that? And yet the 99 out of 100 other coaches that would normally do this dont make the 5 o'clock news because they actually have a little bit of integrity and the actions were simply expected of them.

Also, who in their right mind would hire this fat slob? He got fired from UC for a DUI and whole litany of insubordinate and negligent acts. he went to KSU and left them high and dry after 1 year. Then he goes to WVU and flames out with ANOTHER DUI. Oh, and then pulls this shenanigan which will likely end him up on court with his former employer / alma mater.

I'd love to see which Athletic Director has the balls to take the idea to hire Huggins to his University President.

This all screams of a money grab. West Virginia is not going to hire him back after what has gone on over the past couple of months. Think he is trying to squeeze every dollar he can out of the university. Should be interesting to see how this turns out for him. I have my popcorn ready.

[xubrew]

First of all, there is NOTHING admirable about Bob Huggins. Hes a scumbag.

He's so devoid of ANY redeeming qualities that when on the rare occasion he just does the MINIMUM that a decent person would do, it's considered newsworthy somehow. The one image is when he consoled an injured player.....which coach WOULDNT do that? And yet the 99 out of 100 other coaches that would normally do this dont make the 5 o'clock news because they actually have a little bit of integrity and the actions were simply expected of them.

Also, who in their right mind would hire this fat slob? He got fired from UC for a DUI and whole litany of insubordinate and negligent acts. he went to KSU and left them high and dry after 1 year. Then he goes to WVU and flames out with ANOTHER DUI. Oh, and then pulls this shenanigan which will likely end him up on court with his former employer / alma mater.

I'd love to see which Athletic Director has the balls to take the idea to hire Huggins to his University President.

You’d be surprised. A LOT would. Perhaps none of them are in their right mind because many ADs aren’t, and many who are are overruled by presidents and donors who aren’t in their right mind, but if he wants another D1 head coaching job he’ll find one. Something I realized long ago that I should have realized sooner…the one thing a coach cannot do is lose. That’s the only thing. The list of coaches who won and never got another chance is small. It’s actually zero.

[paulxu]

If it’s Tuesday, I must be in Pittsburgh.

[GoMuskies]

The list of coaches who won and never got another chance is small. It’s actually zero.

I just looked up Dave Bliss and saw that he got the head coaching job at Southwest Christian for two years from 2015-17. So you're absolutely right.

[xubrew]

I just looked up Dave Bliss and saw that he got the head coaching job at Southwest Christian for two years from 2015-17. So you're absolutely right.

Dave Bliss. Now there's a guy that is ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

Huggins may drink too much and act stupid, but he never tried to systematically cover up a murder and threaten his own players and staff while doing so.

[muskiefan82]

Dave Bliss. Now there's a guy that is ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

Huggins may drink too much and act stupid, but he never tried to systematically cover up a murder and threaten his own players and staff while doing so.

That we know of.....lol

[D-West & PO-Z]

That we know of.....lol

Important point!

[X-band '01]

I just looked up Dave Bliss and saw that he got the head coaching job at Southwest Christian for two years from 2015-17. So you're absolutely right.


Dave Bliss. Now there's a guy that is ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

Huggins may drink too much and act stupid, but he never tried to systematically cover up a murder and threaten his own players and staff while doing so.

He had that job until the movie Disgraced came out about Bliss - amazingly enough, SW Christian never vetted Bliss.

[MHettel]

Remember when Isiah Thomas was a total trainwreck as the President of the Knicks? He made a HUUGE mess of the situations. Then when he was reeling, there was a 911 call that responded to his house for some emergency. He came out and said his daughter had tried to commit suicide, and she was like 17 at the time. Most people thought it was absolute BS, and that he just threw her under the bus to explain something that he was actually involved in. That was like then end for him.

Then later (maybe like a year later or more), he was inexplicably hired to coach at an obscure School in Florida, and at the introductory press conference, he was announced as "Isiah Thompson." They obviously had NO IDEA what a train wreck he was, and clearly no vetting in that case.

[X-band '01]

I also remember the old Continental Basketball Association collapsing under Isiah Thompson. That's why there's now a D-League/G-League.

[xubrew]

Remember when Isiah Thomas was a total trainwreck as the President of the Knicks? He made a HUUGE mess of the situations. Then when he was reeling, there was a 911 call that responded to his house for some emergency. He came out and said his daughter had tried to commit suicide, and she was like 17 at the time. Most people thought it was absolute BS, and that he just threw her under the bus to explain something that he was actually involved in. That was like then end for him.

Then later (maybe like a year later or more), he was inexplicably hired to coach at an obscure School in Florida, and at the introductory press conference, he was announced as "Isiah Thompson." They obviously had NO IDEA what a train wreck he was, and clearly no vetting in that case.

It was the next year. FIU actually reached out to him. I think they knew all about him, but figured he could still help put them on the map because he was a star. This may have been the worst hire in the history of D1. The guy knew absolutely nothing about the college game.

He finished in last place every year, but he did have a huge run to the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt Tournament in his second year!! It was the high water mark of his success as a college coach!!

[Masterofreality]

I also remember the old Continental Basketball Association collapsing under Isiah Thompson. That's why there's now a D-League/G-League.

Yeah. Thomas single handedly destroyed that league.
Quite Epic actually. :-(

[xubrew]

Bob Huggins returning to West Virginia…

[XUWahoo]

Bob Huggins returning to West Virginia…

https://youtu.be/ALfcpiLDwJc

Either your link has some kind of typo or is an inappropriate joke which has gone way over my head. The link is a YouTube invitation from the parent of a Sandy Hook victim representing the organization "Sandy Hook Promise" to sign a petition to Congress to stop the sale of "assault" weapons and has nothing to do with Bob Huggins or WVU. Thus, NOTHING has been settled for "Bob Huggins returning to West Virginia."

[xubrew]

Bob Huggins returning to West Virginia…


Either your link has some kind of typo or is an inappropriate joke which has gone way over my head. The link is a YouTube invitation from the parent of a Sandy Hook victim representing the organization "Sandy Hook Promise" to sign a petition to Congress to stop the sale of "assault" weapons and has nothing to do with Bob Huggins or WVU. Thus, NOTHING has been settled for "Bob Huggins returning to West Virginia."

I'm not sure how that happened. It was supposed to be the clip from Seinfeld when George returned to work after quitting. That was not intended to be any sort of a sick joke. What a horrible video to be posted instead. Let me try again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW78swzn_Bs

[murray87]

The gift that keeps on giving:

https://www.outkick.com/bob-huggins-west-virginia-resign-retire-false-statement-lawsuit-rehab-dui-reinstate/

[xubrew]

The gift that keeps on giving:

https://www.outkick.com/bob-huggins-west-virginia-resign-retire-false-statement-lawsuit-rehab-dui-reinstate/

I want WVU to start asking for their boxes back!!!!

[X-band '01]

I'm actually looking forward to two head coaches showing up for WVU's first day of practice now.

[XUWahoo]

I'm loving how Huggins is blaming WVU for HIS putting the cart before the horse by informing WVU of his resignation (just because his letter was sent via his wife's email address doesn't mean he couldn't have written it) BEFORE retaining legal counsel in dealing with WVU. And then his daughter claims that her father cares far more about others than himself while he has been out there driving drunk multiple times exposing other innocent drivers or pedestrians to potential fatalities in getting into accidents with him!