What about the other 100 million or so drunk drivers that still drive in America every day, drunk as heck because they are alcoholics. Down the road from me is a very popular bar and grill. There has to be 50-100 cars in their parking lot 7 nights per week. They all get drunk and drive home. Those people dont have DD's or call Uber. Many of them have had DUI's already on top of it.
That's called "consequences". The program will recover. The state? The school? Damn, man. You realize that sports is only a small part of life, right? It's more important to do the right thing in LIFE and let people know they have consequences for their actions.
You know what he did as we all do. He put himself over the state and the team. He thought he could do whatever he wanted and was beyond reproach. He was a trainwreck waiting to happen by not seeking help for his drinking problem and 2, by not using his driver the night he could have killed someone. People need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming others. Hugs and hugs alone is responsible for what happened to WVU basketball. Maybe his old man should have had a rear view mirror so he'd stop repeating his same mistakes and learned from them.
Oh no, he's right. It's not Hugg's fault that he doesn't learn from his mistakes. Keep slapping him on the wrist until he kills someone. Then blame that person for dying.
First - he didn’t. Second - there are 13,384 drunk driving crashes for 1 million recorded DUIs, count the ones that aren’t reported and you have a better shot at killing someone by unknowingly spreading Covid. Grow up, the world is full of flawed people.
So many drama queens ITT, statistically we are more likely to win a national title this year than Huggins killing someone.
Grow up kid. We have 60k people leave Mountaineer field after boozing all day and having a few more in the stadium. There are 32 pro and 50ish similar or larger sized college stadiums where the same thing happens every weekend. Wouldn’t be surprised if Gee and Baker drive themselves home on game days. You punish everyone who leaves those stadiums with the same “consequences” as Huggins, we don’t even have an economy anymore.
Yes, like I said consequences = fine, loss of license, night in the drunk tank. Throw in embarrassing headline on ESPN. Nowhere does it say “consequences” = blowing up a sports program. You think Bama bats an eyelash if Saban or even Nate Oats got a DUI?
I have to think anyone who can will be jumping in the portal midseason. This is as lifeless and uncohesive of a team I have ever seen. They will all be transferring down or parallel shortly rather than stick with the substitute teacher and get embarrassed on national tv every Wednesday and Saturday.
Pretty sure being 3-5 with losses to Monmouth, SMU and letting Pitt form a layup line in your building is far more damaging than having a bad headline on ESPN for a few hours.
So you prefer drunkards on the highways and WVU court side? No gurantee the W/L change as Huggins last 5 years allowed ,ore layups than a practice round.
This is an indictment on how lenient we are on drunk drivers not a defense of what Huggins did. You are just trying to cope with the unfortunate reality that you already know. A basketball coach at this level is a public relations position. The standards of behavior are higher than your neighbor and guy you know who is just acted like a complete ******* by not learning form his first mistake ... like Huggins.
I mean if you take a sh*t on your bosses desk in front of him and then wipe your *** with his tie, you may not have technically fired yourself. But essentially you would have. Huggins didn't do much better.
Yes - something 1 million people annually get caught doing is equivalent to literally taking a **** on a boss’s desk.
If I were in charge, I would've suspended him indefinitely until the drama smoke cleared and ppl like Hoppy got off the high horse. Meanwhile sit him down with the team and figure out a good exit plan. What I would not do is force him out overnight before anything had been thought out. The timing of this makes it very fragile. Huggins did a dumb thing, but the admin made it worse when it didnt have to be. I think if they would have let it cool for a minute, we could have kept some of the players. A lot of them seemed to like it here and were on the fence. If they let things cool off and sat down with Huggins for a heart to heart and with the team, I bet we keep a couple more of the players who left, even if Huggs still was in forced retirement. Dont jump so fast into it, its just stupid imo...
But you are ok with one drunk off his feet? Give it up. He knew the consequences for his actions. He was warned. He thought he was above the law. He was wrong.
If he gets us to the tournament every year, sure man. What were you, the nerd who played laser tag at Up All Night while everyone else got drunk and chased girls on High Street? Where do you get this moral high ground from?
I do not drink. I also did not play laser tag. Sorry.
Wow...there are so many low life opinions wrapped up in your misguided, juvenile,
Pretty rich coming from you, freak.
The “moral code” exists nowhere except your head. He gave Gee a chance to do what he’s been dreaming about doing since he arrived and Gee took it. He’ll leave the mess for another President to clean up.
No, just showing you’re being ridiculous obsessing over a “what if” that is statistically insignificant. Driving without alcohol results in deaths… you gonna take away everyone’s keys? You’re trying to be the judge jury and executioner of what is acceptable risky behavior? There’s a penalty in place by law for a DUI, none of it is designed to be the end of a person’s professional career. That choice belonged to Gee and Baker (probably just Gee tbh).
This is the truth, whether people want to admit it or not. We have a legal system that all of us have to deal with. Huggins will have to do what they say. But we live in a society where sadly even men now, love drama and the legal system is no longer enough. There has to be public shaming and loss of livelihood if its someone popular. The same people who want Huggs punished harshly and fired, are nowhere to be found on the other 99.99% of DUI's. I doubt they ever read the daily report. Why arent you guys shaming every person who gets a DUI and demanding they lose their jobs? Is Huggs the only dangerous one?
You are oblivious to contracts. At all public schools and universities, employees are signing "moral turpitude" clauses.
Not only did he break his contract by getting in trouble and embarrassing the University he also broke law. A selfish drunkard who chose this path. He could have stayed put or called a driver to take him home. He was making 4 million a year you know.
He literally became the coach here because of a DUI… why was it okay then but not now if there is super important honor code that Huggins broke? By no means am I saying Huggins should be bulletproof, but he had the program performing to our standards and was on paper queued up for a big year. If you’re going to fire him, we could have weathered the storm and did it in Spring of 2024 if the team underperformed and landed a decent coach, we already had the buyout dropped.
You won't ever be convinced. You are bringing up his hiring, why? That doesn't help your cause. He was let go for the SAME OFFENSE he was let go here. The only thing that this proves is that WVU went above-and-beyond to give the guy a "second chance", to which he went and screwed that up too. What is the old saying: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me? He (Huggs) forced the university's hand. If you really think that the school and athletic programs WANTED to fire Huggs, you are crazy.
Well, how's that any better than your argument that the school shouldn't have fired him because of this personal matter with him (drinking addiction)? So you are ok with an employer FORCING its employee to check theirselves in to rehab? But not with them having the right to fire him? That's messed up.