It's good enough guys! Gawwww

[VaultHunter]

Be glad we have Huggins. The program will be shut down when he's gone so you better appreciate what we have!

Your gonna gonna miss 0 conference titles, 0 conference tournament wins, 0 national championships, turnovers, poor offensive development, poor FT shooting and good defense.

Cry baby trolls!

 

[muraca777]

Poor offensive development would be great. Much better than MASSIVE offensive regression, class after class

 

[sg44gold]

The good part is that most of every class transfers out so we always have the hope of new players coming in.

 

[WVUALLEN]

I see the lonely trolls have assembled after another loss.

 

[Shady TigEER]

Be glad we have Huggins. The program will be shut down when he's gone so you better appreciate what we have!

Your gonna gonna miss 0 conference titles, 0 conference tournament wins, 0 national championships, turnovers, poor offensive development, poor FT shooting and good defense.

Cry baby trolls!

Not trying to make a personal attack on you...this is more of a general question to anyone who thinks what you said above is true. Why does anyone believe we (WVU) are incapable of luring a young great basketball mind to Morgantown when Huggs is gone. Why is there a feeling of doom and gloom and that he is the "salvation" of WVU basketball? I'm not ready to kick Huggy out the door - what we've seen with Huggs is obviously what we will get. Most years 20+ wins, tourney bid with a team that can beat anyone if shots fall who also can get bounced in the first round if they don't. That's pretty good for most schools and maybe that's why people fear the future without him?

 

[WVUFanForever]

Not trying to make a personal attack on you...this is more of a general question to anyone who thinks what you said above is true. Why does anyone believe we (WVU) are incapable of luring a young great basketball mind to Morgantown when Huggs is gone. Why is there a feeling of doom and gloom and that he is the "salvation" of WVU basketball? I'm not ready to kick Huggy out the door - what we've seen with Huggs is obviously what we will get. Most years 20+ wins, tourney bid with a team that can beat anyone if shots fall who also can get bounced in the first round if they don't. That's pretty good for most schools and maybe that's why people fear the future without him?

Trolls dont like reasonable questions like this.
If they have to say something beyond "Huggins sucks"...it hurts their head.

 

[The Bell Tolls for Thee]

Not trying to make a personal attack on you...this is more of a general question to anyone who thinks what you said above is true. Why does anyone believe we (WVU) are incapable of luring a young great basketball mind to Morgantown when Huggs is gone. Why is there a feeling of doom and gloom and that he is the "salvation" of WVU basketball? I'm not ready to kick Huggy out the door - what we've seen with Huggs is obviously what we will get. Most years 20+ wins, tourney bid with a team that can beat anyone if shots fall who also can get bounced in the first round if they don't. That's pretty good for most schools and maybe that's why people fear the future without him?

It's not impossible, but not easily done. Huggins is clearly better than most college coaches out there and has earned the benefit of the doubt. Problem is even big schools keep looking for a great ball coach like Texas and what looks like a good hire turns out to be far below Huggins. So the likelihood of getting better than Huggins is fairly low. And even if we do, what's the likelihood they won't get poached if they start to build something here the way Beilein did? I think the odds of WVU getting back to the final four in the next say 5 years is better with Huggins, despite all his flaws, than a new hire. That will change if WVU goes back into the tank like last year as I doubt Huggins will be coaching long enough to build a contender from another collapse.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals]

Let's think about this.

Who in WVU history has been a better coach than Huggins?

Dyke Raese maybe, coach of the 1942 national champions team (the NIT was THE national title back then; teams routinely turned down the NCAA bid for a shot at the NIT).

Fred Schaus, maybe. Fantastic coach who had a fantastic advantage: Jerry West! If Huggins had Jerry West (at his college age) on this team, Culver would be a role player, and Culver is damn good! Even with West, Schaus lost the national title game by 1 point. West became the first player on a losing team EVER to be named MVP of the Final Four because he popped in 30something points and grabbed a lot of rebounds. And West was far from a 6-10, 270-pound hulk that we see dominating the boards these days.

Red Brown. Close, but I think Huggins is better.

So, in more than a century of basketball, Huggins is one of the 4 greatest coaches in WVU history. More likely #1 or #2.

And yet there are dummies posting here who want to dump Bob! I mean, how stupid can you get? And why would you want the world to know you are that dumb?

Now, in Austin on Monday night let's do a horns-down ripping out of Texas' heart … again !!!! Maybe by more than 38 points this time!!!!

 

[.Bodhi.]

The belief that WVU can never do better than its current position is an archaic WV mentality. Move over you senile curmudgeon. The generation of "WVian, born with a chip on our shoulder, we ain't but **** ole hillbillies can't never be looked at like dem ofer fancy city slickers book readin' folks" is over.

WV and WVU shouldn't grovel on its collective knees to plea and entice someone to grace lil ol' WV with their employment. That you think WVU can do no better than Huggins shows how little you think of the state, the city, and the University.

 

[The Bell Tolls for Thee]

The belief that WVU can never do better than its current position is an archaic WV mentality. Move over you senile curmudgeon. The generation of "WVian, born with a chip on our shoulder, we ain't but **** ole hillbillies can't never be looked at like dem ofer fancy city slickers book readin' folks" is over.

WV and WVU shouldn't grovel on its collective knees to plea and entice someone to grace lil ol' WV with their employment. That you think WVU can do no better than Huggins shows how little you think of the state, the city, and the University.

I agree there are some persistently negative people out there regarding WV as never being able to be more than the "little man." At the same time, there are definitely limitations with the WVU basketball program that are not present at say Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, UNC, etc... It is a tall order to find a coach that could field a contender at WVU that would stay for the length of time necessary to build that contender rather than move on the moment bigger programs come sniffing around. I think WVU should shoot for the moon and will have to make a coaching decision within the next 5 years as I doubt Huggins will be coaching beyond that. At that time, WVU will have nothing to lose. Currently, no matter what you think of Huggins, WVU does have at least something to lose if Huggins is replaced.

 

[WVUALLEN]

It's not impossible, but not easily done. Huggins is clearly better than most college coaches out there and has earned the benefit of the doubt. Problem is even big schools keep looking for a great ball coach like Texas and what looks like a good hire turns out to be far below Huggins. So the likelihood of getting better than Huggins is fairly low. And even if we do, what's the likelihood they won't get poached if they start to build something here the way Beilein did? I think the odds of WVU getting back to the final four in the next say 5 years is better with Huggins, despite all his flaws, than a new hire. That will change if WVU goes back into the tank like last year as I doubt Huggins will be coaching long enough to build a contender from another collapse.

Huggins will be here until Huggins decides to leave. It's his choice. Huggins contract includes the option for him to step aside or continue coaching after the 2021-22 season.

Starting with the 2022-23 season, Huggins can assume a five-year appointment in public relations and development along with other duties within the athletic department, ending in June 2027. Or he can continue coaching.

I suspect he will step down after the 2021-2022 season and assume the public relations and other duties. Fund raising which is something Huggins is really good at.

 

[.Bodhi.]

I agree there are some persistently negative people out there regarding WV as never being able to be more than the "little man." At the same time, there are definitely limitations with the WVU basketball program that are not present at say Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, UNC, etc... It is a tall order to find a coach that could field a contender at WVU that would stay for the length of time necessary to build that contender rather than move on the moment bigger programs come sniffing around. I think WVU should shoot for the moon and will have to make a coaching decision within the next 5 years as I doubt Huggins will be coaching beyond that. At that time, WVU will have nothing to lose. Currently, no matter what you think of Huggins, WVU does have at least something to lose if Huggins is replaced.

I agree that WVU will likely never be UNC, dook, KU, and UK but the defending champ is a school that no one would have expected five years ago. There is no reason to believe WVU can't do the same.

 

[chhawaten64]

don't want them to be like duke,nc ky or any of the others but it would be injoyable just to see them make a shot

 

[oceantide83]

Let's think about this.

Who in WVU history has been a better coach than Huggins?

Dyke Raese maybe, coach of the 1942 national champions team (the NIT was THE national title back then; teams routinely turned down the NCAA bid for a shot at the NIT).

Fred Schaus, maybe. Fantastic coach who had a fantastic advantage: Jerry West! If Huggins had Jerry West (at his college age) on this team, Culver would be a role player, and Culver is damn good! Even with West, Schaus lost the national title game by 1 point. West became the first player on a losing team EVER to be named MVP of the Final Four because he popped in 30something points and grabbed a lot of rebounds. And West was far from a 6-10, 270-pound hulk that we see dominating the boards these days.

Red Brown. Close, but I think Huggins is better.

So, in more than a century of basketball, Huggins is one of the 4 greatest coaches in WVU history. More likely #1 or #2.

And yet there are dummies posting here who want to dump Bob! I mean, how stupid can you get? And why would you want the world to know you are that dumb?

Now, in Austin on Monday night let's do a horns-down ripping out of Texas' heart … again !!!! Maybe by more than 38 points this time!!!!

I'm anxious to hear your take on Huggins' Heros after tonight's spectacle.

 

[sg44gold]

Spectacle? You are very kind. Ha! Ha!

 

[WVUALLEN]

Still in the hunt for March so suck it.

 

[Rootmaster]

2020-2021 wvu basketball prediction. Wvu starts with a couple wins over sisters of the poor. Struggles to 8-5 pre conference record. But with 13 new players huggins says team is finding ways to jell and needs time to come together. Team shoots 45% . Team sets at 10-10 after first few conference games. Huggins ssys team's attitude is changing as he looks for shooter. Team's field goal percentage dips to 42.3%. Wvu finishes regular season 8th in conference and 13-17 overall. Huggs vows to fix it.