West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins stepped down as head coach last week after he was arrested for a DUI. This comes a few months after Huggins made insensitive homophobic slurs at Xavier fans, which he later apologized for.
Now, Huggins’ daughter is coming to her father’s defense and slamming the school’s administration for forcing him out.
Jacque Huggins called the West Virginia officials “cowards,” “backstabbers” and “hypocrites” after her father stepped down.
Huggins wrote this about her father:
“Throwing stones at glass houses is also not how to represent such a great University. Treating someone like they don’t matter after they have given their whole heart and soul to your University? You could have helped, but chose to turn your backs. Not only on him, on the guys, the staff, the boosters. Everyone,” she said.
“You’re the classless ones, the cowards, the backstabbers and most of all hypocrites. Remember the 24 million-dollar practice facility, that was not in anyway funded by the University? The 17 million into your hospitals for cancer research? I can only pray you never make another mistake like you have in the past to be crucified for. Cue Ohio State. Enrollment down 30%, mountains of debt, and too much more to list. Do your job that you were assigned to do and bring WVU back, ” she continued.
Huggins also said her father offered to go to rehab for 60 days which the administration turned down and was only given 30 minutes to decide whether to retire or be fired. She also claims that the players don’t want to play for anyone else.
Bob Huggins is one of the winningest coaches in college basketball, however, maybe West Virginia as Indiana did years earlier with Bobby Knight, is just tired of his antics and wants to move on.
