Bob Huggins’s daughter blasts West Virginia as ‘cowards,’ ‘backstabbers’ and ‘hypocrites’ in rant

Jacque Huggins, the daughter of former West Virginia University basketball coach Bob Huggins, went on an angry Facebook rant directed at the school.

During her prolonged post on social media Jacque called those in power at the university ‘cowards’, ‘underhanded’ and ‘hypocrites’ after her father’s resignation.

Even before his recent DUI, in which Huggins reportedly had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, the Hall of Fame coach was already on the hotseat after making homophobic remarks to Xavier basketball fans.

‘Nasty [school president] Gordon Gee and your board, be better and do better,” Jacque wrote.

‘Throwing stones at greenhouses is also not how you represent such a great university. Treating someone like they don’t matter after giving their heart and soul to your university?

Jacque called those in power at the university ‘cowards’ after her father’s resignation

Bob Huggins resigned from his recent DUI charge after already sitting in the hot seat

“You could have helped, but chose to turn your back. Not just him, the guys, the staff, the boosters. Everyone.

“You are the classless, the cowards, the backstabbing, and above all, hypocrites. Remember the $24 million practice facility, which was not funded by the university in any way?

“The 17 million in your hospitals for cancer research? I can only pray that you never make another mistake like you did in the past for which you need to be crucified. Cue the state of Ohio. Enrollment down 30%, mountains of debt and too much more to list. Do your job you were told to do and bring WVU back.”

Jacque further claimed that the school gave Huggins a 30-minute ultimatum to resign or be fired, and gave an explanation as to why he had numerous empty beer cans in his car.

“He told Gordon and his board that he was going to rehab for 60 days to be able to stay for these guys,” her post continued. “The guys who don’t want to play for anyone else. That’s how much he cares. Refused. Not even considered. 100% no without thinking.

Also given 30 MINUTES to decide if he was fired or retired. But they want to preach this society of understanding and compassion. I didn’t make it through the bar, but I’m pretty sure there are strict laws against this. Once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer, right?’

“Besides the “beer cans all over the car,” the cans were in bags and not all beer cans, there’s a small group in Morgantown that knows my dad collects cans for recycling. Always have been, always will. That’s his thing.

“To pretend he was driving around pounding beer, as the media wants to portray, is absolutely absurd. Society in this world we live in doesn’t always tell the truth.

Jacque claimed the school gave Huggins a 30-minute ultimatum to resign or be fired

Huggins recently sparked outrage by using a homophobic insult while performing on a radio show

“Media will tell you what they want you to believe or what they want you to know. That choice is of course up to you whether or not to buy in, but know that it’s not always factual. It’s easy to judge someone from the outside looking in.”

According to the City of Pittsburgh Public Safety Blotter, police saw “a black SUV… in the middle of the road, blocking traffic” with the driver’s side door open and showing it had a “flat and shredded tire.”

Officers asked Huggins to pull the car off the road to help with his flat tire, but he had trouble moving the car to allow other vehicles to pass.

As a result, the police flashed their lights and after questioning thought he was drunk.

Huggins failed standard field sobriety tests and was taken into custody without incident.

He was charged with drunk driving and released with an order to appear for a preliminary hearing at a later date.

Whoever becomes the Mountaineers’ next coach, he’ll have to fill big shows to succeed Huggins and the 345 wins he’s racked up since 2007.

The 345 wins are enough to put Huggins on the list with the second most wins in school history.

This isn’t Huggins’ first DUI incident. He was previously arrested while head coach at the University of Cincinnati in 2004.

Huggins had previously been charged with drunk driving while coaching at the University of Cincinnati

Huggins was under fire this offseason for issues leading up to this DUI — when he was caught on a Cincinnati radio show making homophobic comments.

Speaking on Bill Cunningham’s radio show on WLWHuggins was referring to a time when rival Xavier fans'[threw] rubber penises on the floor and then [said] they didn’t do it, by God, they can get away with anything’.

After the radio host joked that it must have been “transgender night,” Huggins then said, “It was a Crosstown Shootout, yeah, no, what it was was all those motherfuckers, those Catholic motherfuckers I guess” before joking that they had those items threw because “they were jealous they didn’t have one.”

Huggins later apologized for his words and West Virginia chastised him. He was fined $1 million by the school and suspended for the first three games of the upcoming 2023-24 college basketball season.