Jacque Huggins, the daughter of former West Virginia University basketball coach Bob Huggins, went on an angry Facebook rant directed at the school.
During her lengthy social media post Jacque called those in power at the University ‘cowards,’ ‘backstabbers’ and ‘hypocrites’ after her father’s resignation.
Even before his recent DUI, that saw Huggins reportedly have a blood-alcohol level that was nearly three times the legal limit, the Hall of Fame coach was already in the hotseat after making homophobic comments towards Xavier basketball fans.
‘To [school president] Gordon Gee & your board, be better and do better,’ Jacque wrote.
‘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?
Bob Huggins’s daughter Jacque blasted West Virginia University in a long social media rant
Jacque called those in power at the University ‘cowards’ after her father’s resignation
Bob Huggins resigned following his recent DUI charge after already being in the hot seat
‘You could have helped, but chose to turn your backs. Not only on him, on the guys, the staff, the boosters. Everyone.
‘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.’
Jacque went on to claim that the school gave Huggins a 30-minute ultimatum to resign or get fired, and provided an explanation as to why he had numerous empty beer cans inside his car.
‘He told Gordon and his board that he would go to rehab for a 60-day stint to be able to stay for these guys,’ her post continued. ‘The guys who don’t want to play for anyone else. That’s how much he cares. Refused. Not even considered. 100% no without a thought.
‘Also given 30 MINUTES to decide if he was being fired or retiring. But they want to preach this society of understanding and compassion. I’ve not passed the bar but I’m pretty sure there are some stiff laws against this. Once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer, right?’
‘Next the “beer cans all over the car” the cans were in bags and not all beer cans, there is a small group in Morgantown who knows my dad collects cans to recycle. Always has, always will. That’s his thing.
‘To act like he was driving around pounding beers as the media wants to portray is absolutely absurd. The society in this world we are living in doesn’t always tell the truth.
Jacque claimed that the school gave Huggins a 30-minute ultimatum to resign or get fired
Huggins recently sparked outrage by using a homophobic slur on a radio show appearance
‘Media will tell you what they want you to believe or what they want you to know. That choice is of course yours to buy into or not, but just know it’s not always factual. It’s easy to judge a person from the outside looking in.’
According to the City of Pittsburgh’s Public Safety Blotter, police ‘observed a black SUV… in the middle of the road, blocking traffic’ with the driver’s side door open and showing having a ‘flat and shredded tire’.
Officers asked Huggins to move the car off the road to help with his flat tire, but he had difficulty moving the car to get other vehicles past.
As a result, police flashed their lights and after questioning believed he was intoxicated.
Huggins failed standard field sobriety tests and was placed in custody without incident.
He was charged with DUI and released from custody with an order to appear at a later date for a preliminary hearing.
Whomever the next coach of the Mountaineers ends up being will have to large shows to fill, in order to succeed Huggins and the 345 wins he accumulated since 2007.
The 345 wins are enough to list Huggins with the second most wins in school history.
This is not Huggins’ first DUI incident. He was previously arrested while he was the head coach at the University of Cincinnati in 2004.
Huggins had previously been charged with a DUI while coaching at the University of Cincinnati
Huggins has been under fire this offseason for issues prior to this DUI – when he was caught on a radio show in Cincinnati using homophobic slurs.
Speaking on Bill Cunningham’s radio show on WLW, Huggins referenced a time that rival Xavier fans ‘[threw] rubber penises on the floor and then [said] they didn’t do it, by God they can get away with anything’.
After the radio host joked that it must have been ‘transgender night’, Huggins then said, ‘It was a Crosstown Shootout, yeah, no, what it was, was all those f**s, those Catholic f**s I think’ before quipping that they threw those objects because ‘they were envious they didn’t have one.’
Huggins later issued an apology for his words and West Virginia punished him. He was fined $1m by the school and was suspended for the first three games of the upcoming 2023-24 college basketball season.
