University of West Virginia head basketball coach Bob Huggins is in hassle after making homophobic slurs towards Xavier University followers throughout a latest radio look.
Huggins appeared on 700WLW’s “Bill Cunningham Show,” a Cincinnati-based radio present, on Monday morning, and he was heard calling Xavier followers “all these f–s, these Catholic f–s” who would “throw rubber penises on the ground after which say they didn’t do it.”
The full audio clip is under with the remark coming across the 1:15 mark, per Awful Announcing (WARNING: Clip incorporates homophobic remarks):
West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins factors out a name to his group within the first half of a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal sport between the West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas Jayhawks on Mar 10, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena in Kansas City. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
The dialog began with the radio present hosts asking if Huggins had any Xavier University gamers switch to West Virginia, to which the veteran head coach replied, “Catholics don’t try this.”
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For context, Xavier is positioned in Cincinnati and is a Jesuit Catholic college.
Huggins determined to take that remark a step additional, going again to his days as coach of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. The “Crosstown Shootout” is an annual sport performed between Cincinnati and Xavier, and Huggins referred to a particular incident that occurred.
West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins within the first half of a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal sport between the West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas Jayhawks on March 10, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena in Kansas City. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“I’ll inform you what, any faculty that may throw rubber penises on the ground after which say they didn’t do it, by God, they will get away with something,” Huggins stated.
“It was the Crosstown Shootout. What it was was all these f–s, these Catholic f–s. They had been envious they didn’t have one.”
Huggins launched a press release on the matter.
“Earlier in the present day on a Cincinnati radio program, I used to be requested in regards to the rivalry between my former employer, the University of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier University. During the dialog, I used a totally insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there’s merely no excuse for – and I will not attempt to make one right here. I deeply apologize to the people that I’ve offended, in addition to to the Xaviery University neighborhood, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University.
“As I’ve shared with my gamers over my 40 years of teaching, there are penalties for our phrases and actions, and I’ll totally settle for any coming my method. I’m ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for these I’ve harm. I have to do higher, and I’ll.”
West Virginia University added: “Coach Huggins’ remarks in the present day on a Cincinnati radio present had been insensitive, offensive and don’t symbolize our college values. Coach Huggins has since apologized. West Virginia University doesn’t condone the usage of such language, and takes such actions very significantly. The state of affairs is below evaluate and will probably be addressed by the college and its athletics division.”
Huggins coached at Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005 earlier than shifting on to Kansas State for under the 2006-2007 season. He ended up in West Virginia to guide the Mountaineers on the courtroom from 2007 till current day.
Head coach Bob Huggins of the West Virginia Mountaineers appears to be like on through the Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic school basketball sport towards the Marquette Golden Eagles at TD Arena on November 19, 2021, in Charleston, South Carolina. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
However, after these feedback, Huggins’ future on the faculty, and in school basketball as an entire, is actually in query.
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