Report: West Virginia Suspending Bob Huggins For Homophic Remarks

Huggins coached at Cincinnati from 1989-2005.

CINCINNATI — The Bearcats' winningest basketball coach is keeping his job at West Virginia. ESPN's Pete Thamel reports that Bob Huggins is getting multiple punishments for his homophobic remarks on 700 WLW earlier this week.

"WVU and coach Bob Huggins are finalizing details for him to return to the sideline next season in the wake of him using an anti-gay slur in a radio interview earlier this week," Thamel tweeted. "He's expected to receive a suspension, a $1 million salary reduction, and sensitivity training."

Steve Norris first reported the interaction between Huggins and WLW host Bill Cunningham as the two were discussing an incident during one of the Crosstown Shootouts Huggins coached during his UC run.

UC's former head coach said Xavier players wouldn't transfer to West Virginia because "Catholics don't do that." He then used the slur.

Huggins: “Any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it, by god they can get away with anything.”

Cunningham: “I think it was transgender night wasn’t it?”

Huggins: “It was a Crosstown Shootout, yeah, no, what it was, was all those f***, those Catholic f***, I think.”

Cunningham: “All right.”

Huggins: “They were envious they didn’t have one.”

The current West Virginia head coach just got inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and is one of the winningest coaches in CBB history.

Huggins won 398 games with the Bearcats from 1990-05. Listen to the full clip below.

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