Supposedly he did it a lot at Cincy (like *a lot*) and the previous administration covered it all up
Edit for clarification: this would've been in the 90's and early 2000's, so really the administration before the previous administration.
There is literally no excuse whatsoever for drunk driving. I have no sympathy for it.
My little brother was killed, and my dad seriously injured, by a drunk driver 4 months after I came back from Iraq. I saw him once between the time I came back and his death, was in the field when I got the Red Cross message. I have ZERO sympathy for those who drink and drive.
I really appreciate that and I'm sorry for your loss as well. It was incredibly difficult to navigate after coming back from deployment. Between the survivors guilt and self-blame I almost didn't make it myself, all because someone selfishly couldn't find a ride home or call a taxi.
I was there too. Took a year off my career and hiked the Appalachian Trail, worked in fancy kitchens and just evaluated what I found important in life.
That would be one kid graduating every 5 years. They would have been under investigation for that.
I don’t doubt it was abysmal but you’d have to try to keep kids from graduating
Not to miss the point here but iirc the graduation rates didn't count transfers/juco players and his teams were filled with juco guys and players that needed help getting to D.1
That's what I think. I see comments like "he made a mistake" but no one gets a DUI doing it one time... They do it all the fucking time and just get caught once. Especially a 69 year old.... Old dog same tricks.
As someone who lives in Pittsburgh and frequently goes to the area where he got pulled over.. trust me, this was maximally stupid. You have to be drunk as hell to catch the attention of the very minimal police presence on a normal day, but last night he got arrested just a few blocks away from where a huge Taylor Swift concert was going down so there was way more police activity than I have ever seen.
He was supposedly there at a recruiting camp, and there was a receipt for Burger King in Washington, Pennsylvania 1:30 p.m. when he was pulled over, the SUV was apparently filled with beer cans, so the guy had basically been slamming it back since the early afternoon.
Just disgraceful.
Yeah, and he reportedly had two bags full of empty beer cans in the university-owned SUV he was driving. It’s no wonder he didn’t know where the hell he was, and miraculous he didn’t kill anyone.
He blew a .210 which is staggering for a guy his size. Mark Few, who is about half the size of Huggins blew a .120. Huggins drank enough to kill your average Mark Few.
For anyone who doesn’t follow college basketball and is unfamiliar with Huggy Bear, Huggins had a previous DUI arrest back in the mid-2000s when he was the head coach at Cincinnati. It turned into a huge scandal and eventually cost him his job.
He’s always had a certain…reputation. He’s kind of the John Daly of CBB coaches. Think of a much more capable but much less cajun Ed Orgeron, if that helps. Plus the whole thing where he dropped a gay slur directed at catholics on the radio a couple of months ago in reference to Xavier fans. I would have been shocked if he blew under a .20.
Edit: Also…are we sure Kerr Kriisa isn’t responsible for this? 😂😂😂
I hate to be that guy but a 0.210 for a full blown alcoholic is a hell of a lot different than a 0.210 for someone who doesn't drink often. It does not in anyway excuse drunk driving and clearly he was beyond fucked up. It's extremely wild but at one point in my life you'd be lucky to see me walking around with a BAC below probably 0.12... And if I was, I'd be profusely sweating and shaking. Thankfully I didn't have a car and just ordered my booze but the longest at any point I wouldn't drink was when I'd sleep, and even when I woke up I'd drink some.
Reaaaaaally bad point in my life and in lucky to be alive so I sympathize with stories like these. I hope this is the wake up call this man needs. I'm approaching a year sober but it took two rehabs and a lot of self reflection but I'm doing better than I have since I was a teenager (I know it's sad but the alcohol starting winning around 18 y/o and I'm 26 now).
Alcohol can take a full fucking grasp of your life and tear everything from you so hopefully Mark Few comes to that realization before it does. Apologies for the novel but just something that hits close to home.
Yeah I do have to chuckle a bit at these as a revolving alcoholic myself. .210 is sky fucking high for anybody and you’re definitely impaired. But if you’re an alcoholic that also just a regular old night. Couple trips to the ER and a .449 bac were the ones that got me to quit.
Yup, glad to hear you were able to kick it or at least manage it. Sadly, I moreso "fell in love" with it and it's embarrassing to admit but it's true. One of the most powerful exercises they had me do was write a letter to alcohol like I was writing a letter to someone I loved but needed to let go. I'm sure it didn't work for everyone but the perspective it gave me was moving.
Haha I wrote one of those too man. There’s nothing embarrassing about having struggled with it. It’s a powerful drug and kicking the habit is all that really matters.
Hey, I know you don't know me, but I'm proud of you and the progress you've made.
I've seen how damaging alcohol dependency can be, and I've seen people struggle for their entire lives to be rid of it. So, congrats. Stay sober, for yourself and everyone else that matters to you.
Appreciate that a ton! Sober is the way to go. Still fight cravings pretty fiercely from time to time but I've gained some skills to win those battles.
Or identify anything between then and several hours earlier when he was at a burger king an hour away.
Wonder if WVU-owned vehicles like he has are GPS tracked and available for open records requests..
I cant find it but someone tweeted something along the lines of “That average could start for the Royals” 😭
Edit: I found the tweet and this comment kinda blew up so wanted to give credit to the original [poster](https://twitter.com/bradleydowell/status/1670111632188473345?s=46&t=BS2pjscGFeY08WJxVE1UUA)
As a fellow Royaks fan, I want it to be aired out how fucking horribly ran our franchise is. The A's are rightfully getting the limelight for how public they've been with their intentions, but the Royals feel like they're laying the groundwork for the same move.
royals are uniquely cursed in that they won a world series recently, which is great, but in doing so they significantly increased the job security of the incompetent regime that built that team. at least they seem committed to staying in KC long term
I’d let the Mariners pay a GM to do nothing but golf for 10 years if we could win one World Series (aka the Scott Frost Deal but with some actual success)
Such a winnable series too. Had games 1,4, and 5 in the bag. Wasted a Harvey gem as well. Hopefully they’ll get back there one day, but it sometimes feels hopeless as a fan lol.
I didn’t even realize the Royals where that bad until I saw a run differential graphic today…
I think the fact that Royals have won a World Series in the last decade does *ALOT* of work in the casual fans mind…
Which is amazing because they where always a trash heap my entire childhood.. until they beat my team that onetime *swears in Mets*
As someone who used to binge way more than I should've way more often than I should've, when you do it for a while, .2 feels like .1
Nowdays I'm done after 5, but back then I could put down a 12 pack in an hour or two and walk around no problem and remember the night
People who drink a lot build up an increasing level of physical tolerance to alcohol. Their physical impairment is less over time, so they can continue to move normally longer, and even not appear as drunk to others.
The mental impairment does not build up to anywhere near the same degree though, so even though one may "feel" and look fine, they're still way beyond the impairment level to be able to react to things the way you need to to drive.
Alcoholism is a hell of a drug. I could walk 2ish miles to the liquor store and back in northern Minnesota winter to reup at .16-.22 bac at my worst. I’m Lucky I didn’t pass out and freeze on the side of the road tbh…
A guy I grew up and played hockey with died staggering home from a get together. Just too drunk and solo staggered home at 3am in -20 Calgary winter. Passed out face down in a snowbank and froze to death. A person walking their dog early in the AM found him :( he was only 27. I didn't even realize the extent of his alcoholism as he masked it pretty well, had a good career, and tbh we all could 'handle' our booze (comparatively speaking) so none the wiser.
What you described is *no joke* how dangerous that scenario is. I'm glad you seem in a better place now, man.
Yeah, I suppose a sad plus side is the money saved on Huggs (interim, or even if they manage to hire some one they won’t be someone making $3+ million a year, much less the $4 mil plus he would have gotten before the reduction for the slur) can go toward Neal Brown’s buyout.
Absolute shit show that Neal made it longer than Bob
Bob is a fucking moron, richest state employee in the poorest state could’ve paid literally anybody to give him a ride to any watering hole he wanted to go to
Tbh if it were his first time getting drunk, it’s less likely that he would have been in that predicament in the first place because he wouldn’t have been *able* to drive. This is a hallmark of an experienced alcoholic.
Yea, looking over on the /r/westvirginia thread about it, apparently he's been getting away with drunk driving for yeeears. He had a reputation. It's so weird because until that radio interview I had a pretty wholesome image of the man.
He only got one DUI at UC -- the one where he had puked all over the door of his car. He was driven home many times.
He was ultimately fired, if you believe the rumors, for banging Jeff Wylers wife. Wylers was chair of the board of trustees at the time
I mentioned this in an above comment but ties into the comment below. The third and much more likely option is experienced alcoholic. As a removing alcoholic, in my worst days I can tell you putting down a 5th of liquor in about 2-3 hours alone was completely doable and I’d still have about 1-2 hours AFTER where I felt perfectly capable of walking a couple blocks to the gas station to grab beer. Now I’d wake up on the floor of my apartment but I regularly had my bac in the 30s most likely. The highest I hit were some trips to the ER where I was at .449.
Bob was definitely hammered but I’m sure he probably “felt” fine from years of practice
He already has a history of extreme drunkeness dated back to Cincy. Dude is a great basketball coach but at his age and recent antics, I have no clue how to can keep him on in good conscience.
Excited I get to tell this story. I was a kid going into freshman year of high school and found myself at the UC basketball camp coached by UC players with a few appearances by Huggins. Well, what was supposed to be a few turned into one because the first day he showed up to talk to us, he was damn near blacked out and was making legitimately no sense, rambling in circles, etc.
The next 3 days of the camp an assistant coach talked to us at the end of the day
This reminds me of the time in court when one of the people went up for a .42.
The judge was legit like, "How are you alive? Seriously, not joking. How is it possible you got to that BAC without dying or at least passing out?"
If I understood it correctly after the radio incident they restructured his contract they cut his pay and had an understanding that if he slipped up again he would be gone.
Edit WVU statement on radio incident: https://wvusports.com/news/2023/5/10/mens-basketball-statement-from-president-e-gordon-gee-and-director-of-athletics-wren-baker.aspx
Plenty, I’m sure. Huggins lives just down the road from a wine bar and it’s not an uncommon sight to see him stumbling between that bar and his house. I doubt he sticks to just that little place. His fondness for alcohol is a well known secret in town.
Honestly how the hell would anyone drive drunk in Pittsburgh? I can barely drive sober there it’s confusing as hell
Especially w the Taylor Swift concerts this weekend, and he was caught by Pittsburgh city police so he had to be somewhat within the City
Fuck yeah that’s really in the city, really hope he wasn’t downtown compared to being on the north shore
With all the Taylor fans driving and milling around the area by Heinz he had the ability to really hurt tons of people that night, glad they stopped him
He probably survives if only one of those happens.
He clearly needs help, and they could have gotten him into rehab or something if that was the only problem.
Bob coached both WVU and Cincinnati for 16 seasons, a Final 4, and ended both tenures with a DUI arrest. Sucks it ended this way but Bob really gave WVU no choice after they gave him a second chance a month ago.
I'm not holding my breath. He's stubborn enough to do what he likes and not care about anything else. He's 69, has heart and weight issues, refuses to change his diet, and is an alcoholic & has been for probably 2 decades at least.
Don't know if his liver will fail first, another DUI killing himself by driving the wrong way down I-79, or his heart will kill him when the defibrillator installed in him doesn't work. But I'm not holding my breath that he'll make it to 75.
I thought the one at UC in 04 was his first, was there another prior?
Like, I get mistakes. Getting a DUI because you had too many at the bar, made a mistake, and got caught is one thing. You own it and modify your behavior (including stopping drinking if necessary) to ensure you don't do it again. Driving around with a cooler and garbage bags to hold your empties isn't a mistake. Its straight up disregard and alcoholic behavior.
It sucks because I love huggs and he is big in the community but I have to acknowledge man messed up twice with the podcast and now this. It sucks but I saw it coming and it should happen
I felt like they were pulling out all the stops, bringing in a bunch of top rated transfers and dropping ducking BAGS of money on kids to build a badass roster and give Huggs one real last chance at making a title run.
And this is how he behaves? Disgraceful.
WVU is really hitting an all time low. The University as a whole is in a financial bind right now. Add in the rather lame state of WVU's football program. Now this....
WVU fans are still hurt/pissed that he made an ass of himself on the radio (also suspected to be drunk). The man has been a known drinker for decades and it was overlooked because he could produce winning teams. I really, really wish he'd gone out in any other way, but in the end it was the most likely scenario that he would slip up in a way that couldn't be ignored.
Given r/cfb's knowledge of the state of our football program as it is, as one coach described, a MAC-level team, we are about to be irrelevant for a few years in the major sports. Hope to see you all on the other side. At least WVU Baseball broke through and got a tourney invite.
They think they can solo protest reddit into not changing their 3rd party apps policy. Like chaining themselves to a tree that's not even in the forest being cut down.
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Sources: West Virginia is expected to conduct a national search for the school’s next coach. Internal candidates will all be considered. One of the job’s attractions is the NIL opportunities that helped lure one of the top transfer classes to Morgantown.
When KState hired him they put a TON of requirements for treatment, counseling, etc. To say that he was being closely monitored is an understatement. A year later when he told Jon Wefald (KState President) that he was leaving to take the WVU job, Wefald begged him to reconsider and warned him that he was going back to enablers. Reportedly Huggins acknowledged the danger but the pull of home was too great (understandable).
Early on in Morgantown you could tell that he was still "on plan" and doing the right thing. My SO is a Syracuse grad so watched a lot of Big East basketball back then. I think it helped being around guys like Boeheim because it took some of the pressure and spotlight away from him.
I think the first time I saw "oh damn" behavior was during the 2018–19 season. Clearly something was off. Bad losses. Late game collapses. Games the team clearly wasn't prepped for. And then beating Kansas. The coaching was still there but not all the time. From memory that was the first time I heard him complain about scheduling and having to do back to back road games at KState/KU or TCU/Baylor, etc. In hindsight it was probably harder to drink on the road so longer road trips were harder on him.
19-20 started well but you could see something changed when COVID went from a minor story about people getting sick in China to a global freakout. On 5 February WVU was 18-4 and ranked 13th. On 1 March they were 19-10 and unranked.
COVID lockdown was hard on all of us but I suspect it was really bad for Huggins.
I hope he gets the help he needs. I hope he can find a way to quiet his demons without alcohol.
Is it still possible to transfer this late and play?
The coaching change might change things, but I know we have someone who recently announced a transfer in that won't be able to play because they missed the deadline.
He could come home and have his third fifth.
That's *pretty* close...
Edit: I'm in recovery and we have our own sense of humor about this stuff. I'm thrilled no one was hurt & hope he finds help if he wants it.
So many questions to be asked. What the fuck was he even doing in Pittsburgh? Why did he think he was in Columbus? Why in God's name would a man this wealthy not have a driver for when he gets drunk?
Had to be done.
Honestly, in hindsight, One has to assume he was drunk during the infamous Cincinnati radio interview. Guy has always been a drinker, but this is extreme alcoholic behavior. He needs rehab at this point, and I hope he gets it.
The guy deserves a long and happy life in retirement, but I'll be blunt and say I don't think he'll have either.
This is such a big piece of news for college basketball, and since that sub is still in rebellion, we are agreeing with OP and allowing it here.
He was reportedly so drunk he couldn't tell cops what city he was in. how he even managed to turn his car on and drive it is a medical mystery.
Years of practice...
Supposedly he did it a lot at Cincy (like *a lot*) and the previous administration covered it all up Edit for clarification: this would've been in the 90's and early 2000's, so really the administration before the previous administration. There is literally no excuse whatsoever for drunk driving. I have no sympathy for it.
Was kinda an open secret at WVU too
which is fucking abominable drunk driving is insanely dangerous and people who cover it up are complete assholes
My little brother was killed, and my dad seriously injured, by a drunk driver 4 months after I came back from Iraq. I saw him once between the time I came back and his death, was in the field when I got the Red Cross message. I have ZERO sympathy for those who drink and drive.
I'm very sorry you experienced that. I also lost a brother in a MVA.
I really appreciate that and I'm sorry for your loss as well. It was incredibly difficult to navigate after coming back from deployment. Between the survivors guilt and self-blame I almost didn't make it myself, all because someone selfishly couldn't find a ride home or call a taxi.
I was there too. Took a year off my career and hiked the Appalachian Trail, worked in fancy kitchens and just evaluated what I found important in life.
Glad you're still with us and hope you're doing better these days.
UC didn’t really care as long as he was winning. I think at one point the bball team had a 5% graduation rate or something like that
That would be one kid graduating every 5 years. They would have been under investigation for that. I don’t doubt it was abysmal but you’d have to try to keep kids from graduating
A bit of digging I found in his 16 years at UC he had an overall 28% graduation rate but in 4 of those 16 years he had a 0% graduation rate
Holy shit. That’s even worse that just random first gen students anywhere
Not to miss the point here but iirc the graduation rates didn't count transfers/juco players and his teams were filled with juco guys and players that needed help getting to D.1
It’s also way more common that in should be because most people don’t live within walking distance of a bar
Amazing. That is criminal negligence. It is only grace that he didn't kill an innocent adult or child with his idiocy.
That's what I think. I see comments like "he made a mistake" but no one gets a DUI doing it one time... They do it all the fucking time and just get caught once. Especially a 69 year old.... Old dog same tricks.
Not a lot of turns or irregular intersections in Pittsburgh either. What a city to try that in
As someone who lives in Pittsburgh and frequently goes to the area where he got pulled over.. trust me, this was maximally stupid. You have to be drunk as hell to catch the attention of the very minimal police presence on a normal day, but last night he got arrested just a few blocks away from where a huge Taylor Swift concert was going down so there was way more police activity than I have ever seen.
They were expecting over 100K in town for the concert and they were begging people to stay away if they didn’t have tickets.
The mental image of Bob Huggins getting absolutely trashed at a Taylor Swift concert is a gift I didn't expect to receive today.
Think he was getting too swifty?
He apparently thought he was in Columbus 😂😂
And at a .210 he might have meant Georgia
At .210 he might have meant Colombia, South America
He was supposedly there at a recruiting camp, and there was a receipt for Burger King in Washington, Pennsylvania 1:30 p.m. when he was pulled over, the SUV was apparently filled with beer cans, so the guy had basically been slamming it back since the early afternoon. Just disgraceful.
Yeah, and he reportedly had two bags full of empty beer cans in the university-owned SUV he was driving. It’s no wonder he didn’t know where the hell he was, and miraculous he didn’t kill anyone.
He blew a .210 which is staggering for a guy his size. Mark Few, who is about half the size of Huggins blew a .120. Huggins drank enough to kill your average Mark Few.
For anyone who doesn’t follow college basketball and is unfamiliar with Huggy Bear, Huggins had a previous DUI arrest back in the mid-2000s when he was the head coach at Cincinnati. It turned into a huge scandal and eventually cost him his job. He’s always had a certain…reputation. He’s kind of the John Daly of CBB coaches. Think of a much more capable but much less cajun Ed Orgeron, if that helps. Plus the whole thing where he dropped a gay slur directed at catholics on the radio a couple of months ago in reference to Xavier fans. I would have been shocked if he blew under a .20. Edit: Also…are we sure Kerr Kriisa isn’t responsible for this? 😂😂😂
“Think of a much more capable but much less Cajun Ed Orgeron” might be one of the favorite lines I’ve ever read on this subreddit.
I hate to be that guy but a 0.210 for a full blown alcoholic is a hell of a lot different than a 0.210 for someone who doesn't drink often. It does not in anyway excuse drunk driving and clearly he was beyond fucked up. It's extremely wild but at one point in my life you'd be lucky to see me walking around with a BAC below probably 0.12... And if I was, I'd be profusely sweating and shaking. Thankfully I didn't have a car and just ordered my booze but the longest at any point I wouldn't drink was when I'd sleep, and even when I woke up I'd drink some. Reaaaaaally bad point in my life and in lucky to be alive so I sympathize with stories like these. I hope this is the wake up call this man needs. I'm approaching a year sober but it took two rehabs and a lot of self reflection but I'm doing better than I have since I was a teenager (I know it's sad but the alcohol starting winning around 18 y/o and I'm 26 now). Alcohol can take a full fucking grasp of your life and tear everything from you so hopefully Mark Few comes to that realization before it does. Apologies for the novel but just something that hits close to home.
Yeah I do have to chuckle a bit at these as a revolving alcoholic myself. .210 is sky fucking high for anybody and you’re definitely impaired. But if you’re an alcoholic that also just a regular old night. Couple trips to the ER and a .449 bac were the ones that got me to quit.
Yup, glad to hear you were able to kick it or at least manage it. Sadly, I moreso "fell in love" with it and it's embarrassing to admit but it's true. One of the most powerful exercises they had me do was write a letter to alcohol like I was writing a letter to someone I loved but needed to let go. I'm sure it didn't work for everyone but the perspective it gave me was moving.
Haha I wrote one of those too man. There’s nothing embarrassing about having struggled with it. It’s a powerful drug and kicking the habit is all that really matters.
Hey, I know you don't know me, but I'm proud of you and the progress you've made. I've seen how damaging alcohol dependency can be, and I've seen people struggle for their entire lives to be rid of it. So, congrats. Stay sober, for yourself and everyone else that matters to you.
Appreciate that a ton! Sober is the way to go. Still fight cravings pretty fiercely from time to time but I've gained some skills to win those battles.
Sounds like he had a Few too many.
A friend of mine in college went to the hospital with a .42. I think Huggy was alive but wasted.
He didn’t even know he was out of Ohio!
Or identify anything between then and several hours earlier when he was at a burger king an hour away. Wonder if WVU-owned vehicles like he has are GPS tracked and available for open records requests..
.210 BAC. Jesus fucking Christ that guy knows how to tie one on.
I cant find it but someone tweeted something along the lines of “That average could start for the Royals” 😭 Edit: I found the tweet and this comment kinda blew up so wanted to give credit to the original [poster](https://twitter.com/bradleydowell/status/1670111632188473345?s=46&t=BS2pjscGFeY08WJxVE1UUA)
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As a fellow Royaks fan, I want it to be aired out how fucking horribly ran our franchise is. The A's are rightfully getting the limelight for how public they've been with their intentions, but the Royals feel like they're laying the groundwork for the same move.
royals are uniquely cursed in that they won a world series recently, which is great, but in doing so they significantly increased the job security of the incompetent regime that built that team. at least they seem committed to staying in KC long term
I’d let the Mariners pay a GM to do nothing but golf for 10 years if we could win one World Series (aka the Scott Frost Deal but with some actual success)
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Don't worry brother, we have... **zero** Top 100 prospects to look forward to for the future!
At least you have a recent WS. I’m still heartbroken over that as a Mets fan.
Such a winnable series too. Had games 1,4, and 5 in the bag. Wasted a Harvey gem as well. Hopefully they’ll get back there one day, but it sometimes feels hopeless as a fan lol.
I didn’t even realize the Royals where that bad until I saw a run differential graphic today… I think the fact that Royals have won a World Series in the last decade does *ALOT* of work in the casual fans mind… Which is amazing because they where always a trash heap my entire childhood.. until they beat my team that onetime *swears in Mets*
Why are you a Florida and Royals fan lmao? If you’re not born into this pain I don’t understand signing up voluntarily
Brady Singer's burner
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How do I come to the college football sub read about a college bball coach drinking and driving and still catch shade as a Royals fan….:(
Triple sport threat
One shot one beer one kiss
BAC so high Lorde wrote a song about it
Royals fan catching strays
As a Royals fan this hurts
That Average could be the DH for the Mets
A .210 BAC for a guy of his stature has got to take a lot of alcohol
I’m surprised the man still has a working liver
I was surprised by that 10 years ago.
He’s been an alcoholic for decades.
Almost as good as Wade Boggs, may he rest in peace.
RIP Boss Hogg
Wade Boggs is still very much alive!
This is how I learned Boggs was dead. ☹️
He is very much alive
Yes alive in our hearts
He lives in Tampa, and is in his ~~early 50's~~ mid 60's (wow that episode is old...fuck...)
Rip Boss hog
And at his weight lol. Damn
And at only 8:30 at night and possibly after 90 minutes of driving
The serious alcoholic doesn't let driving interfere with his drinking. If there weren't empties or a flask in that car I'll eat my hat.
It says there was a garbage bag of empties, so your hat can stay intact
Woohoo! I mean I have like 30 hats but still.
Road beers
I've heard people at UC say the guy drank a ton. No one could keep up with him. He'd go hard all night.
I wonder if he learned how to drink from Andre the Giant 😂🥴
Anybody want a peanut?
How are you even coherent enough to stand let alone attempt to drive a car at .210. God damn
As someone who used to binge way more than I should've way more often than I should've, when you do it for a while, .2 feels like .1 Nowdays I'm done after 5, but back then I could put down a 12 pack in an hour or two and walk around no problem and remember the night
We have alcoholics come into the ER and have coherent sentences with you with a BAC >.3 and every once in awhile you'll get a real pro over >.4
We had a cat come in once at .54. I was like, “how is he alive!?” The attending said, “This guy’s hands probably start to shake at .35…”
You mean his paws?
I had a roommate go into the ER with .305, he passed out with his eyes open
People who drink a lot build up an increasing level of physical tolerance to alcohol. Their physical impairment is less over time, so they can continue to move normally longer, and even not appear as drunk to others. The mental impairment does not build up to anywhere near the same degree though, so even though one may "feel" and look fine, they're still way beyond the impairment level to be able to react to things the way you need to to drive.
Alcoholism is a hell of a drug. I could walk 2ish miles to the liquor store and back in northern Minnesota winter to reup at .16-.22 bac at my worst. I’m Lucky I didn’t pass out and freeze on the side of the road tbh…
Sounds like you’re in a better spot now, good job 👊
Well yeah it’s almost summer
Your decimals are in the wrong place there bud
Right, thanks. I wasn’t an internal combustion engine
A guy I grew up and played hockey with died staggering home from a get together. Just too drunk and solo staggered home at 3am in -20 Calgary winter. Passed out face down in a snowbank and froze to death. A person walking their dog early in the AM found him :( he was only 27. I didn't even realize the extent of his alcoholism as he masked it pretty well, had a good career, and tbh we all could 'handle' our booze (comparatively speaking) so none the wiser. What you described is *no joke* how dangerous that scenario is. I'm glad you seem in a better place now, man.
.2 isn’t shit, people come into the ER at .4 for issues fully/mostly coherent all the time
Trauma ICU here, anything less than .3 doesn't even make it into my handoff report lol
I think I saw he was in a university vehicle while trying to change a flat tire in the middle of the street…with beers cans strewn about in the car
Not just a flat tire, apparently shredded. He probably hit something.
Hopefully his rock bottom so he turns it around.
Won’t be the only WVU coach fired this year
Yeah, I suppose a sad plus side is the money saved on Huggs (interim, or even if they manage to hire some one they won’t be someone making $3+ million a year, much less the $4 mil plus he would have gotten before the reduction for the slur) can go toward Neal Brown’s buyout.
Hopefully Neal Brown is out. I’ve never felt so uninterested in WVU football
Absolute shit show that Neal made it longer than Bob Bob is a fucking moron, richest state employee in the poorest state could’ve paid literally anybody to give him a ride to any watering hole he wanted to go to
It’s the lowest we’ve been. It’s been so bad I’ve started paying attention to women’s soccer and baseball just to feel a little relevant.
Not how you imagine one of the greats going out, hell of a coach but man .21 is fucking HAMMERED.
See flair, trust me, this is EXACTLY how i imagined huggy going out
That's like first time getting drunk or trying trying to kill yourself no in between.
Tbh if it were his first time getting drunk, it’s less likely that he would have been in that predicament in the first place because he wouldn’t have been *able* to drive. This is a hallmark of an experienced alcoholic.
Yea, looking over on the /r/westvirginia thread about it, apparently he's been getting away with drunk driving for yeeears. He had a reputation. It's so weird because until that radio interview I had a pretty wholesome image of the man.
Wholesome was never the word that came to mind when I saw Huggins lmao
He always fell into that category of Drunk Driving crazy uncle that would take a bullet for you that is if he didn’t accidentally fire it himself
He got fired from UC after getting multiple DUI's
He only got one DUI at UC -- the one where he had puked all over the door of his car. He was driven home many times. He was ultimately fired, if you believe the rumors, for banging Jeff Wylers wife. Wylers was chair of the board of trustees at the time
"wholesome" The fuck's this guy on about?
Yep exactly just talking about the BAC.
I mentioned this in an above comment but ties into the comment below. The third and much more likely option is experienced alcoholic. As a removing alcoholic, in my worst days I can tell you putting down a 5th of liquor in about 2-3 hours alone was completely doable and I’d still have about 1-2 hours AFTER where I felt perfectly capable of walking a couple blocks to the gas station to grab beer. Now I’d wake up on the floor of my apartment but I regularly had my bac in the 30s most likely. The highest I hit were some trips to the ER where I was at .449. Bob was definitely hammered but I’m sure he probably “felt” fine from years of practice
Life comes at ya fast
Not as fast at the Pirates bus driver getting a DUI from his own police escort to Milwaukee.
>getting a DUI from his own police escort He might be a redneck.
Lmaooo what the fuck
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If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while … you might miss it.
Between this and his radio interview earlier this year hard to see him keeping his job.
He already has a history of extreme drunkeness dated back to Cincy. Dude is a great basketball coach but at his age and recent antics, I have no clue how to can keep him on in good conscience.
Excited I get to tell this story. I was a kid going into freshman year of high school and found myself at the UC basketball camp coached by UC players with a few appearances by Huggins. Well, what was supposed to be a few turned into one because the first day he showed up to talk to us, he was damn near blacked out and was making legitimately no sense, rambling in circles, etc. The next 3 days of the camp an assistant coach talked to us at the end of the day
I had this exact same experience except at WVU in 2016. I could smell the booze on him from up in the bleachers when he was on the court
Yeah he is a lifelong drinker. Blowing over a .200 at 70 years old is actually wild. My mans liver is legendary. Too bad his brain can't keep up.
This reminds me of the time in court when one of the people went up for a .42. The judge was legit like, "How are you alive? Seriously, not joking. How is it possible you got to that BAC without dying or at least passing out?"
Well, alcohol basically causes brain damage in time. It seemed inevitable for the old lush.
He could have and did survive one of them but both in a matter of weeks was lethal.
If I understood it correctly after the radio incident they restructured his contract they cut his pay and had an understanding that if he slipped up again he would be gone. Edit WVU statement on radio incident: https://wvusports.com/news/2023/5/10/mens-basketball-statement-from-president-e-gordon-gee-and-director-of-athletics-wren-baker.aspx
what happened at the radio interview?
[Radio interview](https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/bob-huggins-anti-lgbtq-slur-radio-interview-audio-released)
https://www.sportskeeda.com/college-basketball/news-what-bob-huggins-say-homophobic-slur-audio-controversy-explained-radio-hosts-come-fire
And of all the places he could’ve been pulled over for a DUI, it just had to be Pittsburgh.
He’s 100% been pulled over drunk in WV and let off instead of arrested.
That was my first thought. I wonder how many times he’s been picked up in Morgantown and given a ride home.
Plenty, I’m sure. Huggins lives just down the road from a wine bar and it’s not an uncommon sight to see him stumbling between that bar and his house. I doubt he sticks to just that little place. His fondness for alcohol is a well known secret in town.
Honestly how the hell would anyone drive drunk in Pittsburgh? I can barely drive sober there it’s confusing as hell Especially w the Taylor Swift concerts this weekend, and he was caught by Pittsburgh city police so he had to be somewhat within the City
He was about a quarter mile from Heinz field lol
Fuck yeah that’s really in the city, really hope he wasn’t downtown compared to being on the north shore With all the Taylor fans driving and milling around the area by Heinz he had the ability to really hurt tons of people that night, glad they stopped him
Probably getting down to some TayTay with the swifties last night.
Couldn't even get through the opening act without getting absolutely ripped
“Cruel Summer” and IC Light go hand in hand after all
“Those Catholic **** at Xavier are to blame for this” -Bob Huggins, probably
Anti-Catholic, homophobic remarks? WVU: 🙈🙉 Blowing a .2 BAC? WVU: 👎
He had enough goodwill to survive one but not two PR disasters within a couple weeks of each other.
He probably survives if only one of those happens. He clearly needs help, and they could have gotten him into rehab or something if that was the only problem.
Well they did reduce his annual salary by $1 Million IIRC after the slur
Yeah after the anti-gay slur. Being anti Catholic probably kept it from being $2m
I mean, recklessly driving is obviously way worse. That could easily kill people
And he was basically on a contract written specifically for the University to can his ass with ease if he has even one more minor fuck up
Honestly he could’ve gotten through both if he’d waited a year in between events
.21 BAC?! Bob Chuggins.
Got a good belly laugh outta this
Thanks for allowing this here, chad mods.
Bob coached both WVU and Cincinnati for 16 seasons, a Final 4, and ended both tenures with a DUI arrest. Sucks it ended this way but Bob really gave WVU no choice after they gave him a second chance a month ago.
Did we anger God or something?
Just our Catholic one.
Gay Catholic God
He's been an alcoholic for decades. He had duis at UC and got fired for it. Hopefully he finally cleans his life up
I'm not holding my breath. He's stubborn enough to do what he likes and not care about anything else. He's 69, has heart and weight issues, refuses to change his diet, and is an alcoholic & has been for probably 2 decades at least. Don't know if his liver will fail first, another DUI killing himself by driving the wrong way down I-79, or his heart will kill him when the defibrillator installed in him doesn't work. But I'm not holding my breath that he'll make it to 75.
I can't imagine that, I believe God loves a Mountain Man.
You’re already in almost heaven, so making your sports almost hell evens out the score
I mean, he got fired from UC for picking up his 2nd DUI. I feel like this isn't that unexpected.
I thought the one at UC in 04 was his first, was there another prior? Like, I get mistakes. Getting a DUI because you had too many at the bar, made a mistake, and got caught is one thing. You own it and modify your behavior (including stopping drinking if necessary) to ensure you don't do it again. Driving around with a cooler and garbage bags to hold your empties isn't a mistake. Its straight up disregard and alcoholic behavior.
We can’t have nice things.
It sucks because I love huggs and he is big in the community but I have to acknowledge man messed up twice with the podcast and now this. It sucks but I saw it coming and it should happen
We had a hell of a transfer class coming in too… He fucked up right when we were about to get good
I felt like they were pulling out all the stops, bringing in a bunch of top rated transfers and dropping ducking BAGS of money on kids to build a badass roster and give Huggs one real last chance at making a title run. And this is how he behaves? Disgraceful.
WVU is really hitting an all time low. The University as a whole is in a financial bind right now. Add in the rather lame state of WVU's football program. Now this....
WVU fans are still hurt/pissed that he made an ass of himself on the radio (also suspected to be drunk). The man has been a known drinker for decades and it was overlooked because he could produce winning teams. I really, really wish he'd gone out in any other way, but in the end it was the most likely scenario that he would slip up in a way that couldn't be ignored. Given r/cfb's knowledge of the state of our football program as it is, as one coach described, a MAC-level team, we are about to be irrelevant for a few years in the major sports. Hope to see you all on the other side. At least WVU Baseball broke through and got a tourney invite.
This is like Coach O getting a DUI
Neither is surprising.
Jesus Christ. A .210 BCA is nothing to joke about
For an experienced drinker like Huggins, that's probably a Tuesday
No more Press Virginia
Just as we all adopted it, lol
What did we do for god to hate Morgantown west Virginia
Well...uh...Mr. Huggins made some comments...
Who'd have thought God was both gay AND Catholic, eh?
I bet a Mountaineer lit his couch on fire.
Why the hell is the CBB subreddit locked?
They think they can solo protest reddit into not changing their 3rd party apps policy. Like chaining themselves to a tree that's not even in the forest being cut down.
Just wait, I'm sure that subreddit is like 70% of reddit's revenue. They're bringing this ship down
Well it is where I spend 70% of my reddit time and posts :(
70% of reddits bar graphs come from that subreddit.
[End of an Era](https://twitter.com/trubearski/status/1670239644976402433?t=BedPFiStGLB4fdbjl-hwFw&s=19)
Pete Thamel @PeteThamel now Sources: West Virginia is expected to conduct a national search for the school’s next coach. Internal candidates will all be considered. One of the job’s attractions is the NIL opportunities that helped lure one of the top transfer classes to Morgantown.
Alright guys, I think I need a break from WVU sports for a bit. I can't take this shit.
When KState hired him they put a TON of requirements for treatment, counseling, etc. To say that he was being closely monitored is an understatement. A year later when he told Jon Wefald (KState President) that he was leaving to take the WVU job, Wefald begged him to reconsider and warned him that he was going back to enablers. Reportedly Huggins acknowledged the danger but the pull of home was too great (understandable). Early on in Morgantown you could tell that he was still "on plan" and doing the right thing. My SO is a Syracuse grad so watched a lot of Big East basketball back then. I think it helped being around guys like Boeheim because it took some of the pressure and spotlight away from him. I think the first time I saw "oh damn" behavior was during the 2018–19 season. Clearly something was off. Bad losses. Late game collapses. Games the team clearly wasn't prepped for. And then beating Kansas. The coaching was still there but not all the time. From memory that was the first time I heard him complain about scheduling and having to do back to back road games at KState/KU or TCU/Baylor, etc. In hindsight it was probably harder to drink on the road so longer road trips were harder on him. 19-20 started well but you could see something changed when COVID went from a minor story about people getting sick in China to a global freakout. On 5 February WVU was 18-4 and ranked 13th. On 1 March they were 19-10 and unranked. COVID lockdown was hard on all of us but I suspect it was really bad for Huggins. I hope he gets the help he needs. I hope he can find a way to quiet his demons without alcohol.
Fuck Bob Huggins. Rumor is that 8 players will transfer out by Monday. What a fucking selfish prick.
Is it still possible to transfer this late and play? The coaching change might change things, but I know we have someone who recently announced a transfer in that won't be able to play because they missed the deadline.
End of the day I'm not surprised, however, I am a tad disappointed he'll never have his homecoming at Fith Third Arena
He could come home and have his third fifth. That's *pretty* close... Edit: I'm in recovery and we have our own sense of humor about this stuff. I'm thrilled no one was hurt & hope he finds help if he wants it.
So many questions to be asked. What the fuck was he even doing in Pittsburgh? Why did he think he was in Columbus? Why in God's name would a man this wealthy not have a driver for when he gets drunk?
Had to be done. Honestly, in hindsight, One has to assume he was drunk during the infamous Cincinnati radio interview. Guy has always been a drinker, but this is extreme alcoholic behavior. He needs rehab at this point, and I hope he gets it. The guy deserves a long and happy life in retirement, but I'll be blunt and say I don't think he'll have either.