West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins directs homophobic slur at Xavier fans during live radio show

West Virginia College head basketball coach Bob Huggins is in hassle after making homophobic slurs towards Xavier College followers throughout a current radio look. 

Huggins appeared on 700WLW’s “Invoice Cunningham Present,” 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 complete audio clip is beneath with the remark coming across the 1:15 mark, per Terrible Saying (WARNING: Clip accommodates homophobic remarks):

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The dialog began with the radio present hosts asking if Huggins had any Xavier College gamers switch to West Virginia, to which the veteran head coach replied, “Catholics don’t do 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 College of Cincinnati Bearcats. The “Crosstown Shootout” is an annual recreation 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 Huge 12 Match quarterfinal recreation between the West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas Jayhawks on March 10, 2022, at T-Cellular Enviornment in Kansas Metropolis. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)

“I’ll let you know what, any college 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 have been envious they didn’t have one.”

Huggins launched an announcement on the matter. 

“Earlier in the present day on a Cincinnati radio program, I used to be requested concerning the rivalry between my former employer, the College of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier College. In the course of the dialog, I used a very 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 Xavier College neighborhood, the College of Cincinnati and West Virginia College.

“As I’ve shared with my gamers over my 40 years of teaching, there are penalties for our phrases and actions, and I’ll absolutely settle for any coming my approach. I’m ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for these I’ve harm. I have to do higher, and I’ll.”

West Virginia College added: “Coach Huggins’ remarks in the present day on a Cincinnati radio present have been insensitive, offensive and don’t symbolize our college values. Coach Huggins has since apologized. West Virginia College doesn’t condone the usage of such language, and takes such actions very critically. The scenario is beneath evaluation and shall be addressed by the college and its athletics division.” 

Huggins coached at Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005 earlier than transferring on to Kansas State for under the 2006-2007 season. He ended up in West Virginia to steer the Mountaineers on the courtroom from 2007 till current day.

Head coach Bob Huggins of the West Virginia Mountaineers seems to be on throughout the Shriners Kids’s Charleston Basic faculty basketball recreation towards the Marquette Golden Eagles at TD Enviornment on November 19, 2021, in Charleston, South Carolina. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Photographs)

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Nevertheless, after these feedback, Huggins’ future on the college, and in faculty basketball as an entire, is actually in query.