Stick with Huggy. He WILL (eventually) git ur done.
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Huggins helped move WVU bb along, but it’s becoming more than evident his best coaching is behind him.
He should not be allowed to drive WVU basketball into the dirt as he tries to deflect all failures onto the players he brought on in the first place, just because he has delivered some successes during his time.
He should not be allowed to drive WVU basketball into the dirt as he tries to deflect all failures onto the players he brought on in the first place, just because he has delivered some successes during his time.
He is not doing well on either offense or recruiting and now even his D isn’t working. He has had his time, WVU can’t afford to just gift him a lifetime career- he can retire quite comfortably no doubt. His style is not attractive to top quality players at this stage and WVU plays in one of the very best year in and out conferences.
Your best days have long past as well. Quit posting. You're running the board into the ground with your dumbass replies.
If Pitt fans were talking about canning a HOF coach 1 year removed from a #13 final ranking, would you laugh at them?
Huggins is a HOF coach. He is also going to be 69 years old going into next season. Historically even HOF coaches decline in performance at this point in the career. This season is the second time in the last 4 years that the wheels have completely fallen off the wagon. Then there is the new NIL and transfer portal landscape making it very difficult for a coach like Huggins who builds from the ground up. All that combines not toward firing, but toward the admin making plans. Perhaps Huggins will retire on his own. But if next season is just like this or only marginally better, the admin will be facing a choice. Gamble that a now 70 year old coach might hold together a roster for one last NCAA run while risking a losing to mediocre stretch that builds toward nothing. So the question is not about firing Huggins, but how much latitude he gets to leave on his own terms. Because like I said if next year is not much better than this one, then there is a real chance Huggins ends out his career more like Catlett did than in a fashion worthy of his HOF career if Huggins is given carte blanche to retire on his own terms and Huggins tries to make it 3 or more years.
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Nothing any of you can do but ***** on web forums about it. No changes will be made. Games are still selling out. But I don't think Huggins will stay much longer if this stays on the court. He would not do that.
Huggins has been given carte blanche to retire on his own terms. No if about it.
Huggins has been given carte blanche to retire on his own terms. No if about it.
That's true there is nothing any fan can do but muse about these things. I'm sure Huggins will get to retire on his own terms, but the answer is should he be allowed to without exception? He definitely gets another season next year unless he retires. But what if next year is the same or only marginally better than this year and Huggins doesn't retire? Does no one in admin ask if maybe he should consider retiring? Do they come to a mutual agreement that if the year after isn't at a certain level of success that Huggins will retire? Or should the admin just say because of Huggins career up until 2022 that he has earned the ability to have 4-5 consecutive non NCAA tournament seasons and a losing record if he wants to keep it up that long?
I certainly do not think he should get Carte Blanche. I think the admin should be keeping a list every year for a replacement in the event Huggins retires. I think if next year is another failure to make the NCAA Tournament that admin needs to have a frank conversation about how much rope Bob has in the coming seasons. Hopefully there can be a mutual agreement on the level of success necessary to keep a coach now in his 70's around in the event Huggins keeps doggedly going after one more good year.
Stick with Huggy. He WILL (eventually) git ur done
Maybe, but these days Larry the Cable Guy could coach this team to last place in the Big 12 and probably be more enjoyable to watch.
Sorry but he has carte blanche and has been the most succesful ever for WVU basketball.
You and your crew would be ***** slapping any coach right now even if he had won a national title 2 years ago.
And I'm just saying that the latter being true does not mean the former SHOULD be true. I have no doubt Huggins will get to dictate his own retirement and Huggins is the best coach WVU has ever had. However, no coach should be allowed to just grind the program down in their final years just because of their former greatness. I'm not saying Huggins will do that and hopefully he notices when he's got nothing left to give, but I don't think his resume should allow him to limp to an 8-20 final season leaving the program in the same spot it was 20 years ago.
Huggs is now 89-87 in Big 12 games as WVU's coach...and moron boy TBone/Allen says he is the best ever. Homer Idiotic.
I have no problem at all giving him another year. You don't like it too bad.
He obviously will get another year and SHOULD get another year. I have no problem with that at all and i doubt Huggins retires of his own volition after this season. But I don't think it's out of line for the AD to have a frank conversation at the end of this season about what happens after next year. Not malicious, just honest in that if after next season WVU looks to be in a slow rebuild, what are the realistic expectations moving forward with a 70 year old coach.
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Shane doesn't have the balls to talk to him or his assistant coaches would be gone already.
