West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins contends that what the school says was a resignation letter didn't meet the terms of his employment agreement.
Since then, he said he has been in a “world-class rehabilitation center” and intends to remain there “until I am cleared to return to my active coaching duties.”The 69-year-old coach also apologized for the “mistake that I made in Pittsburgh,” referring to his June 16 arrest there. He registered a 0.21 percent blood alcohol level — more than twice Pennsylvania’s legal limit of 0.08 percent — upon taking a breath test, according to the criminal complaint obtained by the Associated Press.
The incident was the second embarrassment this offseason involving Huggins, a West Virginia graduate who had coached his alma mater since 2007 and is the winningest active coach in men’s college basketball. In an appearance on a Cincinnati radio show in May, he used a homophobic slur while recalling a rivalry game between Xavier University and the Bearcats, whom he coached from 1989 to 2005.
Huggins’s statement Monday came after his lawyer informed the school that its announcement had been based on an email sent by Huggins’s wife and that it did not qualify as a resignation under the employment agreement, which, the lawyer said, required notice “in writing via registered or certified mail.”
One week after his resignation was announced, West Virginia named Josh Eilert, a 16-year veteran of the Mountaineers’ staff, the interim coach.
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