West Virginia University stated it was evaluating and would later on resolve the homophobic remarks that its guys’s basketball coach, the Hall of Famer Bob Huggins, made on Monday throughout a live radio interview.
Appearing on the Cincinnati station 700WLW’s “Costs Cunningham Program,” Huggins was discussing his 16-season period with the University of Cincinnati and the school’s intracity competition with Xavier University. In remembering a Crosstown Shootout video game in between the schools, he two times called Xavier fans a homophobic slur, stating they would “toss rubber penises on the flooring and after that state they didn’t do it.”
In a declaration, West Virginia stated that Huggins’s remarks “were insensitive, offending” and did not represent its worths. The school “does not excuse making use of such language and takes such actions extremely seriously. The scenario is under evaluation and will be resolved by the university and its sports department.”
Asked if Huggins, 69, would be allowed to continue hiring and working throughout the evaluation, a spokesperson for the guys’s basketball group described the university’s declaration. Huggins did not react to a text asking if he had actually been disciplined by the university.
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Huggins provided an apology prior to the university launched its declaration, stating he ‘d “completely accept” any effects for his remarks.
” Throughout the discussion, I utilized an entirely insensitive and abhorrent expression that there is merely no reason for– and I will not attempt to make one here,” Huggins stated in a declaration. “I deeply ask forgiveness to the people I have actually angered, in addition to to the Xavier University neighborhood, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University.”
He did not make a scheduled look at a West Virginia fund-raising occasion in Wheeling, W.Va., Monday night; his long time assistant, Ron Everhart, appeared rather.
” He had a dispute and will not have the ability to go to tonight,” West Virginia’s athletic director, Wren Baker, informed regional press reporters.
Huggins has actually coached at West Virginia given that 2007. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Popularity in 2022 and is among just 6 guys’s coaches to collect 900 profession wins in Department I. A West Virginia alumnus, Huggins directed the program to the Last 4 in 2010, an accomplishment the group had actually not achieved given that the 1950s.