Sources: Huggins’ salary to be lowered after slur

Pete Thamel, ESPNMay 10, 2023, 10:41 AM ET West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins is anticipated to return to the sideline next season in the wake of using an anti-gay slur in a radio interview previously today, sources informed ESPN on Wednesday.The university

decision is in the procedure of being finished Wednesday, and the details have yet to be settled. Huggins has actually consented to a million-dollar wage decrease, a substantial suspension and sensitivity training.Huggins, 69, is anticipated to sign the amended contract agreement Wednesday, according to sources. Huggins’changed income decreases what he makes from$4.2 million to$3.2 million. The million-dollar salary reduction is thought to be one of the greatest in college athletics.Editor’s Picks Huggins consulted with president Gordon Gee on Tuesday and revealed contrition for the remarks, sources told ESPN. The decision originated from the greatest levels of the school, including Gee and the university administration, the school’s board of trustees and the athletic department.The choice followed almost two days of deliberations, as Huggins appeared on a Cincinnati-area radio station Monday. The university right after condemned his words and revealed that it was reviewing the incident.In a radio interview on News Radio 700 WLW in Cincinnati, where Huggins used to coach(at the University of Cincinnati ), he went over an occurrence with the host where

Huggins remembered”rubber penises “were tossed on the floor of a Crosstown Shootout game in between Cincinnati and Xavier.Huggins then stated, “What it was, was all those f-gs, those Catholic f-gs, I believe. “The audio emerged on the media market site Awful Announcing and rapidly spread out.

The remarks sparked a significant backlash, and Huggins provided an apology that included:”I utilized a totally insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is just no excuse for– and I won’t attempt to make one here. I deeply ask forgiveness to the individuals I have actually upset.”Huggins, a West Virginia graduate, is a Hall of Fame coach who has an 863-389 record at four Department I schools because getting the Akron job in 1984. Huggins has actually likewise coached at Kansas State. Along the method, he emerged as one of the most successful and divisive coaches of the last generation. He has actually been at West Virginia since 2007 and has led the school to a 345-203 record, 11 NCAA competitions and the 2010 Last 4.