Huggins Retires
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I’ll sure miss Huggy. Not so much recently, but 5 years ago the defense his teams played against KU was outstanding; I hated to play them in Morgantown. My blood pressure still shoots through the roof when I remember that game where the WV guard was allowed to drive from outside the arc for a winning layup without dribbling once. Oh my, those Morgantown losses hurt. Huggy’s problems and Bill’s health issues are reminders of the ridiculous stress these coaches suffer. I wish Huggy could have enjoyed a farewell season where opposing teams and fans showed their respect and appreciation for a job well done.
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@stoptheflop with you. Huggins did a lot of good things and was good to a lot of people. Much rather see a lowkey Huggins farewell tour with a salty top transfer class than a Coach K bonanza with a crappy lot of underachieving diaper dandies.
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@approxinfinity said in Huggins Retires:
@stoptheflop with you. Huggins did a lot of good things and was good to a lot of people. Much rather see a lowkey Huggins farewell tour with a salty top transfer class than a Coach K bonanza with a crappy lot of underachieving diaper dandies.
I agree , Huggy DID do good things, I myself liked Huggs, vey dry sense of Humor, but also was a person not afraid of coming straight to the point on an issue. - Now what was said on the radio racial - NO , not a good look at all, doesn’t mean can’t still like the guy he did a lot of good things, feel like he was along with Bill one of the Ambassadors in the Big 12, one of the longer tenured - for me I won’t lie I’m gonna miss Huggy in the games and him sitting on his Chair.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Huggins Retires:
Sad end for a great.
Well kind of Technical the wording was he told his players that he was stepping down/resigning , which for Huggy I’m glad it’s way instead of flat out being fired, However you have to wonder behind close doors it was more like- - -you have two options , you can either step down now OR we force you out/fire you – not a good look. - I feel sorry for I think was a Good guy, I liked Huggy, obviously had some issues but who doesn’t- -Just Sad.
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Why don’t people with huge salaries just hire a personal driver? Especially if they think they might be out partying. I get not wanting to hop into an Uber but geez, seems so obvious to me.
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I’ve tried an awful lot to forget Juwan Staten exists (the player you mentioned that scored without a dribble). Those games in that era were something else.
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Unfortunate ending for a heck of a coach. I wonder how much these two issues will weigh on his legacy.
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@RockkChalkk makes you wonder if his personal life is total chaos with basketball the only rational constant.
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Having said that, West Virginia does have some dudes we’d want. Huggy tried in recruiting for once and assembled a posse of dudes. But can’t imagine they will stay whole now and we have a need to get better.
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@RockkChalkk thats why i am a little scared what losing basketball is going to do destabilizing him. But maybe its the only way to change.
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Oh no! Now Coach Huggins says he never retired and still wants to coach WV. At 69 and with another DUI pending, it sure seemed like the purported retirement was in everyone’s best interest. But noooooooooo, here we go with the George Costanza storyline where George returned to work pretending he didn’t get mad and quit his job. Maybe, this is just an effort to gain some additional compensation. We will see.
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@stoptheflop Grab the popcorn, this is gonna be a fun show to watch.
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Ha! This is a great reference
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I don’t know why any sane rational 69 year old man would choose to fight this. You’ve got all the money you’ll ever need, but now you’re going to try to get your job back which means recruiting 16 year olds, trying to keep 20 year olds, who you worked your tail off to get to come to WVU, from transferring to KU and other schools, have to try to win a conference with Bill Self in it, bad refs, games in Lubbock Texas at 8:30 at night and arriving back home at 3 AM and having to get up to prepare the team for a game 2 days later, etc. etc.
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@wissox the only answer is “love” …. (or a pile of cash)
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@wissox said in Huggins Retires:
I don’t know why any sane rational 69 year old man would choose to fight this. You’ve got all the money you’ll ever need, but now you’re going to try to get your job back which means recruiting 16 year olds, trying to keep 20 year olds, who you worked your tail off to get to come to WVU, from transferring to KU and other schools, have to try to win a conference with Bill Self in it, bad refs, games in Lubbock Texas at 8:30 at night and arriving back home at 3 AM and having to get up to prepare the team for a game 2 days later, etc. etc.
I don’t picture Huggins as someone who would deal with retirement well. He seems like he would probably die very quickly without having something to occupy all of his time based on what we know of his personality. Maybe he could go the Jim Calhoun route and take a D3 job as a way to fill that hole, but I don’t see him doing well with a lot of free time on his hands.
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I’d speculate it’s about legacy as well. He’s a proud West Virginian. Doesn’t wanna go down like this in a public drunken stupor.
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@rockchalkjayhawk How do your 1st 2 sentences not lead directtly to the description of his exit in sentence #3
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@mayjay I know you’re joking. However… [I was surprised to read that…]
…Just 11.8% of West Virginia adults drink excessively, a smaller share than in any other state. Though the Huntington metro area has a higher excessive drinking rate than West Virginia as a whole, at 12.6%, it still ranks among U.S. cities with the lowest excessive drinking rates.May 15, 2018 https://www.usatoday.com › food
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@mayjay said in Huggins Retires:
@rockchalkjayhawk How do your 1st 2 sentences not lead directtly to the description of his exit in sentence #3
All that BBQ’d squirrel soaks up the alcohol.
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@approxinfinity Very interesting. I’d love to see a breakdown of the drinking rates by type of car driven, whether they actually attended WVU, red/blue, and age. So, get on that, please.
Stats like this, of course, depend on self-reporting by respondents to some type of survey. I am sure the same technique is used to generate remarkably low rates of domestic abuse and tax fraud.
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@mayjay alright alright… i’m not going to die on this coal hill.
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10 of the 20 drunkest cities in the USA are in the state of Wisconsin. Strangely a lot of Badger staters brag about it. Green Bay leads the list where 26% of adults get drunk regularly. 50% of auto deaths in that city are from drunk drivers. This is why Huggins not only shouldn’t get his job back but he needs help.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/drunkest-cities-in-america
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Gotta love an author who writes “Approximately 26.5% of adults drink to excess.”
Perhaps “Approximately a quarter of adults drink to excess” might be better.
Research strategizing session: “Let’s make up numbers about a topic no one could possibly know with anything other than a WAG, then make sure they are presented down to a 10th of a percent to make it look like we have carefully measured stuff!”
“Ooh, that"s fun!”
“Thank you, class, for your suggestions. Now, back to Intro to Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics…”
Back in the mid-70’s, there was a calculation released by someone that was based on actual numbers. Total amount of beer sold in a city, divided by the number of adults in the city as reported in the census. Hays, Kansas, as I recall, had one of the highest per capita consumption rates of beer in the US. Or so my friends from what we thereafter called “Haze” told us…rather proudly.
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@mayjay Notice I avoided the approximately conundrum and just wrote 26%.
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@mayjay For what it’s worth that web site has a very good reputation for being unbiased and statistically accurate.
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@wissox I know their rep. How could they know this, though?
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@mayjay said in Huggins Retires:
@wissox I know their rep. How could they know this, though?
Walk around Wisconsin. Talk to four people and round up a bit.
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@DanR Odds are you are 88.39% exactly precisely approximately correctly right on!
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@DanR said in Huggins Retires:
@mayjay said in Huggins Retires:
@wissox I know their rep. How could they know this, though?
Walk around Wisconsin. Talk to four people and round up a bit.
Three were sober, but one was definitely 104% drunk.
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I feel like the title needs edited to “Huggins retires…”
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@dylans or “Huggins Retires…?”
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Huggins Re-retires?
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Is Coach Huggins going to continue to coach WV after the DUI and retired/not retired problems? Coach was treated as a first time offender and granted probation on the June DUI charge. I haven’t heard anything new on his retracted retirement announcement. It seemed to me that WV was more than happy to move on when Huggy’s retirement was first announced. Now what?
