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Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Bob Huggins Rightly Keeps Job With West Virginia Mountaineers

Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Pete Mundo

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.8870 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins will retain his job after fallout this week following his use of a homophobic slur. Right or Wrong? Pete Mundo discusses. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Well, I'm breathing a sigh of relief because Bob Huggins is keeping his job, and West Virginia

0:06.1

is doing the right thing by their Hall of Fame head coach.

0:11.1

I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports.com.

0:14.4

It is good to be here with you.

0:15.7

So if you miss some of the drama this week, Bob Huggins went on a Cincinnati radio show

0:21.8

and got himself into some trouble.

0:25.1

You know, former head coach at Cincinnati, that's why he's on there.

0:27.5

Cincinnati's coming back to the Big 12.

0:29.7

And he used a homophobic slur directed at Xavier fans.

0:34.1

Cincinnati, Xavier, big-time rivalry, and he called called them F words, the homophobic slur,

0:41.2

and then he said those Catholic F words referring to Xavier fans, saying that they would throw

0:47.3

rubber weeners on the floor and then say that they didn't do it. That is part of the story that Bob

0:56.4

Huggins told earlier this week on the Cincinnati radio show, the Bill Cunningham program.

1:01.7

Look it up. It's on the website at heartlandcollege sports.com. If you want to listen to it,

1:06.6

if you haven't heard it yet, that's fine. But the question all week was, is Bob Huggins going to be

1:12.7

fired? And thankfully, the answer is no. That is not defending Bob Huggins' use of that word.

1:22.3

But we can't just sit here, as I talked about in an earlier show this week, and ruin everybody's life

1:28.6

because they make a mistake.

1:31.0

That's not a world.

1:32.2

That's not a culture I want to live in.

1:34.2

I want to be around good people who make mistakes.

1:37.6

Because guess what?

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