Huggins has many admirers and many supporters. West Virginia held off on firing Huggins and instead suspended him for three games for the upcoming season, turned his contract into a year-by-year agreement and set up sensitivity and educational training. “Insensitive and abhorrent,” Huggins described his comments in a predictably admirable statement. None of it would have been acceptable just kicking back over late-night drinks, but to do so on a 50,000-watt radio station suggested he had lost all perspective on proper decorum. He was previously arrested in 2004 when he coached Cincinnati, with dashboard footage showing him vomiting out the driver’s side door.įriday's arrest follows an incident earlier this offseason when he appeared on a Cincinnati radio show and made anti-gay, anti-transgender, anti-Catholic and other comments in a completely absurd “interview.” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins reacts during an NCAA tournament game on March 16. It’s unlikely the tire just happened to get shredded on its own. The only positive news here is that no one was injured. They told him to move the car out of traffic and “observed him having difficulty maneuvering the SUV.” Per the police report, Huggins was unaware he was even in Pittsburgh, had no explanation why he would be in Pittsburgh, failed repeated field sobriety tests and later registered a.
Police said they discovered him outside his SUV with a flat and shredded tire. Huggins was arrested Friday in Pittsburgh and charged with driving under the influence. "I must do better, and I plan to spend the next few months focused on my health and my family so that I can be the person they deserve," Huggins said. He announced his retirement late Saturday along with a lengthy apology. Huggins, 69 years old now, apparently can’t change and it wound up costing him his career. He probably could have been a coal miner. Nearly every day ended in one of those dive bars back home - or whatever more fancy establishment he found as his career and bank account grew. Huggins coached like Norman Dale from "Hoosiers" and carried himself like this was still the 1970s. Huggins was a throwback, perfect for Cincinnati and West Virginia where he connected with alums and fans like few others. It’s what fueled him up the coaching ladder into multiple men's Final Fours and a Hall of Fame career. It’s what got him as a player all the way to West Virginia. This was what drove him to lead his farm town high school basketball team, coached by his father, to a 26-0 season. Port Washington was where he learned his no-nonsense values, his hardcore sensibilities, his unwavering intensity and, yes, his proclivity for winding down the day over some bourbon or beers. It was an explanation of his old-school coaching style. Bob Huggins always liked to say that he grew up in a small Ohio town with “500 people, one stop light and nine bars.”
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