It’s the offseason for college basketball, so usually, we don’t hear about a lot of big, breaking headlines during the summer months. But unfortunately, current West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins found an ugly way to get the sports community buzzing.
Huggins, who was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022, is suddenly under fire after making some highly controversial comments where he used a homophobic slur on more than one occasion.
The incident came during a Monday morning appearance on the Cincinnati radio station WLW with Bill Cunningham. You can hear the clip for yourself, but we’ll warn you, it paints Huggins in a bad light. More importantly, it reveals how carelessly Huggins approaches such a sensitive topic.
Here’s a transcript of what Huggins said in the controversial radio appearance that he surely regrets. As Huggins later mentions in his statement, he was speaking about the University of Cincinnati, a school he used to coach from 1989-2005. The conversation initially started when Cunningham asked if Huggins had “poached any” Xavier players to play for the Mountaineers. Here’s what followed”
Huggins: “Catholics don’t do that. Any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it, by god they can get away with anything.”
Cunningham: “I think it was transgender night wasn’t it?”
Huggins: “It was a Crosstown Shootout, yeah, no, what it was, was all those f***, those Catholic f***, I think.”
Cunningham: “All right.”
Huggins: “They were envious they didn’t have one.”
Naturally, Huggins quickly issued an apology statement, trying to make up for his comments:
What happens from here is anyone’s guess, but as mentioned, Bob Huggins is fully prepared to accept any consequences that come from his actions.
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