Bob Huggins out at West Virginia

[SnottieDrippen]

3 hours ago, nikeman49 said:

How about total wins compared to others in the business, I just think he has been good for the game with his less talented teams and coming up with upsets and underdog wins.

Doesn’t it strike you as odd that such a winner couldn’t get more talented teams? Or higher profile jobs? 

23 wins and a Final 4 every 20 years makes a coach a winner? 

[nikeman49]

3 hours ago, SnottieDrippen said:

Doesn’t it strike you as odd that such a winner couldn’t get more talented teams? Or higher profile jobs? 

23 wins and a Final 4 every 20 years makes a coach a winner? 

Does it strike you that he didn’t need talent or a high profile job to win many, many games? And last time I checked, Cinncinati said WVa are rather decent D1 jobs.

[SnottieDrippen]

10 hours ago, nikeman49 said:

Does it strike you that he didn’t need talent or a high profile job to win many, many games? And last time I checked, Cinncinati said WVa are rather decent D1 jobs.

Each has been relevant in the national landscape exactly once since the days of Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. Maybe WV twice. I wouldn’t call either of them high profile. 
 

So he made a career off beating up on C-USA and the bottom of the Big East barrel. 
 

His teams must hedge really hard. 

[nikeman49]

1 hour ago, SnottieDrippen said:

Each has been relevant in the national landscape exactly once since the days of Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. Maybe WV twice. I wouldn’t call either of them high profile. 
 

So he made a career off beating up on C-USA and the bottom of the Big East barrel. 
 

His teams must hedge really hard. 

Each are relevant every year in respective conferences, bottom of the Big East is exactly who? Cincinnati under Huggie was a team nobody wanted to play come tourney time, so a winner is still the right term for him and always will be.

[Voice of Reason]

27 minutes ago, nikeman49 said:

Each are relevant every year in respective conferences, bottom of the Big East is exactly who? Cincinnati under Huggie was a team nobody wanted to play come tourney time, so a winner is still the right term for him and always will be.

I find your defense and promotion of Huggins as a winner interesting. I personally have often compared John Calipari to Bob Huggins. I see them very similar as coaches. They are good practice coaches and not good game coaches. They have a style they play and they will stick to it. For you to be promoting Huggins like this and be so anti Calipari is a strange contrast IMO.

As to who is a winner, Calipari has a higher winning percentage than Huggins. In the tournament, Calipari's NCAA tournament winning percentage is #3 and Huggins is #13.

[nikeman49]

36 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

I find your defense and promotion of Huggins as a winner interesting. I personally have often compared John Calipari to Bob Huggins. I see them very similar as coaches. They are good practice coaches and not good game coaches. They have a style they play and they will stick to it. For you to be promoting Huggins like this and be so anti Calipari is a strange contrast IMO.

As to who is a winner, Calipari has a higher winning percentage than Huggins. In the tournament, Calipari's NCAA tournament winning percentage is #3 and Huggins is #13.

I just think Huggie has always gotten the most from his teams, very demanding, no nonsense guy, hasn’t done very well in tourney play.

[SnottieDrippen]

8 minutes ago, nikeman49 said:

I just think Huggie has always gotten the most from his teams, very demanding, no nonsense guy, hasn’t done very well in tourney play.

When it’s when or go home, he goes home, regardless of how many drinks he’s had. 

[nikeman49]

22 minutes ago, SnottieDrippen said:

When it’s when or go home, he goes home, regardless of how many drinks he’s had. 

Could say the same for a whole bunch of coaches out there minus the drinking comment.

[SnottieDrippen]

34 minutes ago, nikeman49 said:

Could say the same for a whole bunch of coaches out there minus the drinking comment.

That’s a pretty big part of this story though, isn’t it?

[nikeman49]

44 minutes ago, SnottieDrippen said:

That’s a pretty big part of this story though, isn’t it?

Didn’t have anything to do with our discussion about Huggie being a winner.

[SnottieDrippen]

20 hours ago, nikeman49 said:

Didn’t have anything to do with our discussion about Huggie being a winner.

Just making sure we paint the whole picture. 

[swamprat]

I ran in to Huggins, literally, outside of the basketball arena up there in 2010. Big guy. 

 

[4 Quarters]

Bob has found employment.

[nikeman49]

On 10/26/2023 at 12:49 PM, 4 Quarters said:

Bob has found employment.

Where’s he at?

[4 Quarters]

1 hour ago, nikeman49 said:

Where’s he at?

I never said it was a coaching job.  He will be on a weekly call in radio show in Wheeling, Wv.