The top coach of the West Virginia College males’s basketball staff used an antigay slur, twice, throughout a radio interview.
The coach, Bob Huggins, apologized Monday, and the college mentioned it was reviewing the matter.
In accordance with ESPN, the slur got here throughout a dialogue of his prior work on the College of Cincinnati. He was criticizing followers of Xavier College of Ohio, a crosstown rival.
“Any faculty that may throw rubber penises on the ground after which say they didn’t do it, my God, they will get away with something,” Huggins mentioned within the interview.
The radio host mentioned, “I feel it was ‘transgender evening,’ wasn’t it?”
Huggins then mentioned, “What it was, was all these fags, these Catholic fags, I feel.”
In an announcement launched by the college, Huggins mentioned, “Earlier at this time on a Cincinnati radio program, I used to be requested concerning the rivalry between my former employer, the College of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier College. Through the dialog, I used a totally insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there’s merely no excuse for—and I gained’t attempt to make one right here. I deeply apologize to the people I’ve offended, in addition to to the Xavier College neighborhood, the College of Cincinnati and West Virginia College. As I’ve shared with my gamers over my 40 years of teaching, there are penalties for our phrases and actions, and I’ll totally settle for any coming my approach. I’m ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for these I’ve damage. I have to do higher, and I’ll.”
West Virginia’s athletics division mentioned, “Coach Huggins’ remarks at this time on a Cincinnati radio present have been insensitive, offensive and don’t signify our college values. Coach Huggins has since apologized. West Virginia College doesn’t condone the usage of such language and takes such actions very severely. The state of affairs is beneath evaluate and will probably be addressed by the College and its athletics division.”
