Bob Huggins in trouble?

LawHall88

3:51p, 5/8/23

Used one of those forbidden words in a radio interview this morning...

⚠️ Here’s the audio of Bob Huggins calling Xavier fans “Catholic f--s” during an appearance on Bill Cunningham’s WLW radio show in Cincinnati pic.twitter.com/JTftGx9rQE
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2023

Know Your Enemy

4:25p, 5/8/23

Yikes

HossAg

4:27p, 5/8/23

Well he's done

LawHall88

4:50p, 5/8/23

agfan2332

4:59p, 5/8/23

I would be shocked if he's done. Most likely a suspension is coming.

MarcAg

5:03p, 5/8/23

He will be fired

MarcAg

5:07p, 5/8/23

The only thing that might save him is it's West Virginia

agfan2332

5:10p, 5/8/23

In reply to MarcAg

MarcAg said:
The only thing that might save him is it's West Virginia

That has nothing to do with him being fired or not. I would be shocked if they did fire him though.

MarcAg

5:33p, 5/8/23

In reply to agfan2332

agfan2332 said:
MarcAg said:
The only thing that might save him is it's West Virginia

That has nothing to do with him being fired or not. I would be shocked if they did fire him though.

Of course it does. The uproar among your own university matters in something like this. Sometimes you get fired anyway, but if the uproar among the people associated with your university is high it definitely increases your chances. And I don't think the level of uproar in WV will be that great.

AgEfan

5:38p, 5/8/23

Wow. He knows he can't say that. Did he just forget this is public?

MarcAg

5:46p, 5/8/23

I'll be curious to see if this is it for him or if he continues to try coaching at another school in a year or so. He's about to be 70.

agfan2332

5:50p, 5/8/23

In reply to MarcAg

I agree with you on the last part. I'm pretty tied in to that program well and the situation is certainly not great, but I still don't see him getting fired from this. The push back from the state will be high. If this was the previous AD their though, I think it would be another story.

HossAg

5:52p, 5/8/23

In reply to MarcAg

MarcAg said:
I'll be curious to see if this is it for him or if he continues to try coaching at another school in a year or so. He's about to be 70.

I'm sure Liberty would take him

MarcAg

6:14p, 5/8/23

They have anybody we would want via transfer when he gets fired?

LegalDrugPusher

7:57p, 5/8/23

Such a soft nation. It's ridiculous we fire or even punish people for these types of things.

AgEfan

9:16p, 5/8/23

In reply to LegalDrugPusher

LegalDrugPusher said:
Such a soft nation. It's ridiculous we fire or even punish people for these types of things.

So not allowing people to be hateful is soft? **** off!

Method Man

9:35p, 5/8/23

In reply to AgEfan

You were just allowed to be hateful.

MarcAg

9:44p, 5/8/23

In reply to LegalDrugPusher

You can't go on public radio and say that. Did he just have a stroke and forget he was talking on the radio? I don't know how that happens. I wonder if the radio hosts feel bad at all for this as they egged him on and really were pushing for him to say something controversial. I'm not saying that an excuse for Huggins at all. You can't say that.

Rocinante

10:04p, 5/8/23

In reply to LegalDrugPusher

LegalDrugPusher said:
Such a soft nation. It's ridiculous we fire or even punish people for these types of things.

Don't know how many nations you've been to but talking like that will get you fired in pretty much any developed nation.

Not a problem in say, Afghanistan. So I guess they aren't soft.

FTAG 2000

10:26p, 5/8/23

In reply to AgEfan

AgEfan said:
LegalDrugPusher said:
Such a soft nation. It's ridiculous we fire or even punish people for these types of things.

So not allowing people to be hateful is soft? **** off!

Coach Pop has called republicans Nazis and he's still coaching.

alvtimes

1:04a, 5/9/23

One day I wanna see an old getting ready to retire multi millionaire coach just blast the living crap out of a platform he doesnt like…. to make it better I hope its a platform I dont like either.

HossAg

4:40a, 5/9/23

In reply to LegalDrugPusher

LegalDrugPusher said:
Such a soft nation. It's ridiculous we fire or even punish people for these types of things.

Method Man

8:10a, 5/9/23

Ad hominem

Reno Hightower

8:23a, 5/9/23

Seems like he has a bigger problem with Catholics than he does the LGBTQA+ crowd. Yet he only apologizes to one of those groups.

Double Diamond

8:26a, 5/9/23

I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

rlb28

8:39a, 5/9/23

The radio hosts seemed to think it was funny.

HossAg

8:39a, 5/9/23

In reply to Double Diamond

Double Diamond said:
I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

He used a derogatory term for a group of people in an attempt at humor. Not sure what you're confused about.

Know Your Enemy

8:45a, 5/9/23

In reply to HossAg

HossAg said:
Double Diamond said:
I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

He used a derogatory term for a group of people in an attempt at humor. Not sure what you're confused about.

He's old. Cut him some slack. Apparently he forgot that the F word Huggy Bear used is to disparage the gay community.

rlb28

8:47a, 5/9/23

In reply to HossAg

HossAg said:
Double Diamond said:
I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

He used a derogatory term for a group of people in an attempt at humor. Not sure what you're confused about.

Disrespectful, but not hateful. The context of the comment had to do with fake *****es being thrown onto the court by a rival fanbase. He was attempting to be humorous, not hateful.

Tobias Funke

8:50a, 5/9/23

I can't believe we are arguing whether or not this was acceptable

Know Your Enemy

9:04a, 5/9/23

In reply to Tobias Funke

Tobias Funke said:
I can't believe we are arguing whether or not this was acceptable

Welcome to TexAgs.

HossAg

9:22a, 5/9/23

In reply to rlb28

rlb28 said:
HossAg said:
Double Diamond said:
I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

He used a derogatory term for a group of people in an attempt at humor. Not sure what you're confused about.
Disrespectful, but not hateful. The context of the comment had to do with fake *****es being thrown onto the court by a rival fanbase. He was attempting to be humorous, not hateful.

How bout just stupid? You gotta be a complete moron in today's age to expect anyone to interpret your willingness to use that word on public radio as anything other than hateful.

He should have a basic understanding of what's acceptable. So he either doesn't, and he's a dumbass that should probably be retired, or he does, and he used it anyway. If it's the latter, then there's really no reason to interpret as anything other than hateful.

Mikeyshooter

9:25a, 5/9/23

In reply to HossAg

HossAg said:
Double Diamond said:
I'm not into hate speak but cannot see how this is hateful. More inappropriate. But didn't say anything about Trans or gays.

He used a derogatory term for a group of people in an attempt at humor. Not sure what you're confused about.

It was kinda funny though.

rlb28

9:36a, 5/9/23

In reply to HossAg

Disagree. If you listen to that clip there's no way you can believe he was being hateful. No way.

HossAg

9:36a, 5/9/23

In reply to rlb28

rlb28 said:
Disagree. If you listen to that clip there's no way you can believe he was being hateful. No way.

You're not understanding my post.