In a while next the audio used to be posted on-line Monday, and West Virginia teacher Bob Huggins’ profession used to be abruptly very a lot up within the breeze as a result of he impaired a homophobic slur two times on are living radio in an incredibly blind means, one thing the Naismith Memorial Corridor of Famer tweeted in November 2020 began circulating.

It used to be a tweet about Thom Brennaman.

Brennaman used to be, again in 2020, the tv play-by-play resonance of the Cincinnati Reds and a govern announcer on NFL video games for Fox. He used to be a heavy trade in, an achieved man. However in August 2020, life running a sport between the Reds and Royals, Brennaman used to be stuck on a sizzling microphone calling San Francisco “one of the f-g capitals of the world,” the usage of a homophobic slur.

In no time, he misplaced the ones jobs. Later, simply 3 months upcoming, Huggins had Brennaman talk to his staff.

Right here’s what Huggins due to this fact tweeted:

Implausible, proper?  

What that tweet illustrates is if any one will have to’ve had a correct figuring out of what pronouncing that word of honour publicly can do to a profession, it will have to’ve been the man whose buddy misplaced his profession next by chance pronouncing that word of honour on breeze. However there used to be Bob Huggins, survive radio Monday, two times pronouncing that word of honour on breeze — no longer by chance however in fact very deliberately — life regarding Xavier enthusiasts as “Catholic f–s.” 

Huggins released an apology next the audio created headlines.

“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,” Huggins tweeted. “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. 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. 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 am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will.”

I nonetheless have questions.

Huggins has been talking publicly for kind of 4 many years and has to understand it’s no longer OK to significance that word of honour, if simplest as a result of his buddy misplaced his profession the usage of that word of honour lower than 3 years in the past — so why on Earth did he significance that word of honour two times on are living radio? (It obviously wasn’t a slip-up as a result of, once more, he mentioned it no longer as soon as however two times.) Had he been ingesting? Did he no longer know he used to be on breeze? Precisely what resulted in Huggins two times pronouncing that word of honour on radio?

Sadly, we would possibly by no means get a complete clarification as a result of any clarification could be interpreted via some as an mercy, and Huggins mentioned he’s bored stiff in making any excuses. So what’s performed is completed, the apology has been excused, and now we’ll all simply wait to peer how West Virginia College officers, who’ve already mentioned the condition is “is under review,” reply.

Will Huggins be suspended?

Terminated?

Or will his situation as a legend within the game of faculty basketball, and an icon within the circumstance of West Virginia, permit him to proceed his extremely adorned, but additionally arguable, head-coaching profession that dates to 1980 and contours extra wins on the Category I degree than any alternative teacher in historical past no longer named Mike Krzyzewski or Jim Boeheim has amassed. I’ll ban cut of creating a prediction — however, yeah, it’s utterly cheap to suppose this would possibly in reality be it, that Bob Huggins would possibly quickly connect the record of coaches who misplaced their high-profile jobs no longer for shedding too many video games, however for doing or pronouncing one thing clear of the court docket that you just can not do or say.