Already on thin ice after his derogatory remarks towards the LGBTQ+ and Catholic community on a radio show last month, Bob Huggins has handed West Virginia his job on a platter. There’s nothing funny here. It's nothing but sad, writes DanaONeilWriter.
It’s so easy to pretend to be clever, or to make jokes at someone else’s demise. Invariably that’s what happened as soon as news broke that West Virginia’s Bob Huggins had
. Using the location of his arrest, Twitter jokesters decided that Huggins must have been at the Taylor Swift concert, and guffawed that his Hall of Famer career hit a crashing end thanks to the Eras Tour.Bob Huggins is a 69-year-old man who twice now has been arrested for DUI, each time the drinking and driving putting his employment into serious jeopardy. In Cincinnati, his 2004 arrest served as the tipping point to his break with the university. And now this.
With all sorts of means at his disposal, instead of hiring someone to drive him, he opted to get behind the wheel drunk. He not only torched his Hall of Fame career when there were a million other options; he put himself and countless others at risk. The only bit of good news here is that no one was injured or worse, killed.
Huggins long has been known for his willingness to enjoy a drink or two. It was part of his caricature — he was amusingly, willfully out of shape and happy to throw back a bourbon. The man has a bar in his office. How fun! I take no moral high ground here. I’m as guilty as anyone. I once sat with Huggins at a bar and watched his FitBit light up underneath his quarter zip. The dichotomy between the two was so amusing, I started my story with it.Driving drunk is. Yet Huggins, with so much to lose and so many ways around it, has now been charged with doing so twice.
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