Surprised it's 3, thought it might be the first game only. This is WV we're talking about.
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$1 million salary reduction, three game suspension, a drive deep into left field by Castellanos, and sensitivity training. Huggins will have to scrape by next season on $3.2 million.
First three games are Missouri State, Monmouth, and Jacksonville State before heading to the Fort Myers Tip-Off. That seems exactly right.
Well Huggins bad off season continues. Arrested for DUI last night in Pittsburgh. I have to think he is done now.
https://www.si.com/college/cincinnati/news/bob-huggins-arrested-for-dui-in-pennsylvania
https://www.si.com/college/cincinnati/news/bob-huggins-arrested-for-dui-in-pennsylvania
No one who leaves now is eligible in 2023-4, I believe. A couple months ago, different story.
One assistant, Ron Everhart, has 19 years head coaching experience (Duquesne and Northeastern, most notably). I'd imagine they'd throw him in for the next season unless there's some retread tanned, rested and ready (Crean comes to mind). I don't see why Mazzulla would even consider the job.
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Since I posted this someone tweeted that there was a 30 day extension if the coach left. I'm not finding that anywhere but it may be true. Stay tuned, this WVA situation will reveal the answer one way or another.
Huggins grew up in the same county I did, although he was a couple of decades before me. His dad Charlie was a legendary high school coach and probably the first in the area whose employment was always kind of shady... leaving one school for another for free cars and such. He was also a disciplinarian... I was hanging out with one of my best friends in high school and his dad who had played for Charlie. He told me when they were losing one game at half-time, Charlie was really giving them a tongue-lashing in the locker room and spit out his false teeth mid-rant. They were all too intimidated by him to even react. Several years later I realized I had another friend whose dad played on the same team and also told me that story.
When Bobby was in high school he won a state championship playing for his dad (one of his teammates became a teacher/principal in my district when I was in school). They were at the opposite end of the county, which most of the rest of us look down on as sort of the trashy relative you don't really want to acknowledge. It's known in general as Indian Valley which covered two school districts that had adopted that name, differentiated by "North" and "South". They were South, which the people there embraced way too much, including adopting Rebels as their official sports name and having a Confederate flag at center court... mind you, this is in Ohio, well north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Fortunately, before I was in high school the two districts consolidated and the adults in the room won out and forced them to adopt the identity and branding of the north district.
Bobby Knight's hometown is also 30 miles away from me, so it seems we have a knack for developing highly successful asshole basketball coaches.
When Bobby was in high school he won a state championship playing for his dad (one of his teammates became a teacher/principal in my district when I was in school). They were at the opposite end of the county, which most of the rest of us look down on as sort of the trashy relative you don't really want to acknowledge. It's known in general as Indian Valley which covered two school districts that had adopted that name, differentiated by "North" and "South". They were South, which the people there embraced way too much, including adopting Rebels as their official sports name and having a Confederate flag at center court... mind you, this is in Ohio, well north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Fortunately, before I was in high school the two districts consolidated and the adults in the room won out and forced them to adopt the identity and branding of the north district.
Bobby Knight's hometown is also 30 miles away from me, so it seems we have a knack for developing highly successful asshole basketball coaches.
I am seeing the 30 day grace period reported multiple places. Here's one:
View: https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1670451771695669248?s=20
Also, WVU is brining in the big guns to help convince the players to stay. Our friend Joe pitching in, which should put to rest any silly rumor that he would consider leaving the Celtics:
View: https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/1670909297184718851?s=20
Among the hot names reportedly connected to the new job include Ben McCollum, Northwest Missouri St. (WVU's current AD Wren Baker was formerly AD of NWMS and McCollum's previous boss), Pat Kelsey, College of Charleston, and Andy Kennedy, UAB. Hopefully this is wrapped up soon.
How far away was the town where Havlicek and maybe the Niekro brothers grew up?
They all grew up on the Ohio side of the river from Wheeling, WV, about 60-70 miles east of there. Huggins was in a school district that bordered the town Woody Hayes grew up in (Newcomerstown) and Cy Young was from a crossroads farming community just outside there, too. In fact, when Woody was a kid, Cy was his baseball coach. Woody also coached one of the larger high schools in my county before he jumped to the college level.
The first job Woody got out of college was as a teacher and coach at Dundee High School, which is a tiny town directly north of where I live in Sugarcreek. I'm pretty sure their high school wasn't large enough to have a football team. A couple of weeks later, Mingo Junction offered him the same job and was a bigger school. It was in the summer, so he left Dundee having never worked a day there. Less than 20 years later they closed their high school and joined the school district I'm in.
Bill Mazeroski was from that area, too. So many great athletes from one region. Lots of coal miners using sports to give their sons a chance at a better life.
West Virginia going the interim route and promoting long time Huggins staffer Josh Eilert. AD said timing wasn’t right for the external coach search & hire, and the national search will follow the 2023-24 season. Now to see what dominoes fall with the transfers.
Edit: Three enter portal: starter Tre Mitchell, Joe Toussaint, and incoming transfer Kerr Krissa re-enters portal.
Edit: Three enter portal: starter Tre Mitchell, Joe Toussaint, and incoming transfer Kerr Krissa re-enters portal.
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Pretty much was the only option in the end. There was a lot of mutual interest with John Beilein coming back for a year to stabilize things. The AD flew to Michigan to meet with him, but many of the players indicated they would transfer out if he was hired and JB wasn't going to come for a roster of bench players. A lot of the big money boosters didn't want JB back either because they were still miffed about his wife bad mouthing Morgantown when they left in 2007.
There was a lot of reporting around Morgantown that Huggs was interfering with the search and having a lot of the donors put pressure of the AD to hire one of his guys. Most of the big money basketball people are very loyal to Huggins and will do what he wants. I fear this could create a really toxic environment next year when they start looking for a permanent head coach.
I'm chalking this up to a lost year already, Eilert was the video coordinator for a long time and has very little bench coaching experience.
Bob Huggins: Not so fast my friend
View: https://twitter.com/HoppyKercheval/status/1677853009496113152
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Breaking: Former WVU head basketball coach Bob Huggins sends letter to WVU demanding reinstatement or he will sue. Claims he never resigned.
View: https://twitter.com/HoppyKercheval/status/1677853009496113152
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Breaking: Former WVU head basketball coach Bob Huggins sends letter to WVU demanding reinstatement or he will sue. Claims he never resigned.
Two vacancies in NE: 1. Jared Grasso, Bryant, on a leave of absence, then got arrested for leaving the scene of an accident. Mental issues hinted at in some articles about the circumstances surrounding his arrest. Doubt he'll be back.
2. Jay Young, Fairfield, resigned today, no details available. 50-75 or thereabouts in 4 years, but the school thought enough of him to extend him thorough 25-26.
2. Jay Young, Fairfield, resigned today, no details available. 50-75 or thereabouts in 4 years, but the school thought enough of him to extend him thorough 25-26.
The rumor around town is that Grasso's original issues that got him put on leave were co-eds and blow. The North Smithfield, RI police released their body cam video today from the afternoon after the accident.
View: https://youtu.be/rm49wSy6W1A?si=pjuso-uLNutmh0Rz
View: https://youtu.be/rm49wSy6W1A?si=pjuso-uLNutmh0Rz
1. Cocaine is a helluva drug. Combine that with extramarital affair or affairs with a Bryant student.....
2. I've heard a lot of unconfirmed details about what happened at Fairfield. It sounds like it's a very complicated situation in which Jay is getting railroaded.