I must do better, and I will.”Īnd here’s the statement released by WVU Athletics: I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. As I have shared with my players over my 40 years of coaching, there are consequences for our words and actions, and I will fully accept any coming my way. I deeply apologize to the individuals I have offended, as well as to the Xavier University community, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University. During the conversation, I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for – and I won’t try to make one here. “Earlier today on a Cincinnati radio program, I was asked about the rivalry between my former employer, the University of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier University. Here’s the statement released by Huggins: West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins apologized for using anti-gay slur ”Īfter the clip of the exchange went viral, Huggins apologized for using the “abhorrent phrase,” a phrase he felt comfortable enough with to drop not once, but twice. During the course of the interview, he referred to Xavier fans as “all those, those Catholic. Huggins appeared on 700 WLW’s “Bill Cunningham Show” in Cincinnati on Monday morning. Unfortunately, West Virginia basketball’s Bob Huggins apparently kept a vile anti-gay slur in his vocabulary and now he’s rightly in trouble for it. By now everyone, especially public figures, has got to know what words should have been purged from their vocabulary a long time ago. West Virginia basketball head coach Bob Huggins apologized for using an anti-gay slur on a radio show while WVU acknowledged a review is underway.
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