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Huggins extension includes buyout
West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins signed an 11-year contract with the school yesterday that will keep him at his alma mater until he's 65.The deal will pay Huggins $1.5 million a year, plus incentives. When he arrived in April 2007, he was paid $800,000 in his first season. The contract, which will be made public Monday, includes a $4 million buyout, the same amount the university is seeking to recover from former football coach Rich Rodriguez, who quit in December for a job at Michigan.
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Damaris Lewis
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West Virginia just sold its soul...I guess winning a few basketball games is worth dealing with Lucifer.
Tell it like it is
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What is it with WVA and their $4 million dollar bail outs? Is that the highest they can count to or do they just copy and paste the past deal so they don't have to think about drafting up another contract from scratch?
The Warden
Skid Row, CA
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If I were a West Virginia coach, I'd be wary of signing off on the buyout clause. They actually expect you to pay it!!!
Spaceman Spiff
Richmond , VA
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Mark my words, Bob Huggins will bring a national championship to Morgantown...Something Dick Rod could never do with WVU and will also never do in Michigan thats for you The Warden! I mean his teams always choke in the biggest games...
DMitch
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DMitch you are just a stupid homer. What is with all the WV homers like you who think RR is Satan just because he wanted to go coach at arguably the best college football program in the country? You'd have to be pretty crazy to pass up Michigan. I'm not a UM fan at all, but come on now, you'd have to be stupid to pass that opportunity up unless, say, you were Les Miles and you just won a national title.
YngwieScruggs
Cleveland , OH
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Just a note on Bob Huggins... in his time at Cincinnati, I'm pretty sure the graduation rate of his players was ZERO. He's about as low class as it gets in sports. He's a winner, but he definitely doesn't do it the right way. Driving drunk didn't improve his stock either.
YngwieScruggs
Cleveland , OH
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To elaborate, Coach Huggins was forced to resign from the University of Cincinnati after 16 seasons in August 2005. Not for lack of wins, but in University President Nancy Zimpher???s words, a lack of character.
In all, according to the University of Cincinnati, there had been no less than 21 players under Coach Huggins who have had, to use their term, ???significant encounters with law enforcement.??? These ???encounters??? included arrests for domestic violence, rape and DUI. One guy even punched a police horse. Another, Donald Little, taped his roommate to a lawn chair, threw weights at his head, clubbed him with a whiskey bottle and burned him with a heated coat hanger. He then stabbed him for good measure.
YngwieScruggs
Cleveland , OH
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As for academics, 27 of 95 Huggins' players graduated from Cincinnati or another university in his 16 years. That???s a 28% graduation rate overall, including those students who transferred. Huggins also had four seasons where the NCAA reported the Cincinnati men???s basketball graduation rate to be zero. Even at the time Huggins was forced to resign, again according to university officials, one of his players had been maintaining a 0.0 GPA, and another would have had a 0.0 if not for two incompletes.
Some role model and leader. What a dirtbag.
YngwieScruggs
Cleveland , OH
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Lucifer Thuggins deserves to be gang raped by the Hillbillies in Blacksburg.... that should be the buy out........
Sir Robin (again)
Fan Nation, HQ
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what is wrong with me?.... I meant the hillbillies in Morgantown.... sigh.... I'm out.....
Sir Robin (again)
Fan Nation, HQ
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I think they chose the $4 million dollar buyout (instead of another amount) for Huggins in order to make it look like standard operating procedure and bolster their case in the court of public opinion against RR.
Jabril1217
Tucker , GA
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YngwieScruggs all I am saying is Rich Rod will never beat Ohio State...He can't win big games during the regular season...look at his record in so called big games at WVU! It seemed like every year his teams were under prepared to play in the big games look at the USF and Pitt games as examples.
DMitch
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I don't understand why Huggins is Satan. Yes he has a bad past but the man does win games and coaches players to the next level. Of course I guess you have to be a thug to play in the NBA .
As for the buyout, Jab is right. Its to make it look like that is the standard buyout clause for WVU. But it also works both ways. If WVU wants to fire Huggins they have to pay. I am sure if roles were reversed and WVU fired DickRod then he would be suing the crap out of WVU for his 4 mil.
WV fans just want RR to be a man and pay the damn money, you signed it, pay it so we can get some other non-sports stories on these boards to b**ch about.
Pugz
Huntington , WV
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why the hell do you fans of other teams care what about our coaches?? Dick-Rod screwed us over. But Huggins is bringin it. He is a good coach and who cares about his bad past, hes makin up for it now.
wvublondie5
Morgantown , WV
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