• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Bob Huggins (EX West Virginia Head Coach)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
West Virginia redoing Bob Huggins' contract

Athletic Director Oliver Luck told the Daily Mail the school and Bob Huggins are redoing the contract they signed after the 2008 season. That was for 11 years and $27.5 million overall, including $2.3 million for the upcoming season. Luck would not reveal the details, but said they're "looking at adding to both the length and the compensation." Luck said the contract should be finished before the end of the year.

Entire article: http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/201210110213
 
Upvote 0
ScriptOhio;2235048; said:
said they're "looking at adding to both the length and the compensation."
Click to expand...

So, they are compensating for the lack of length?

and+the+wiener+is.jpg
 
Upvote 0
Huggins has an odd habit of recruiting teams that don't shoot the ball well and rely heavily on attacking the offensive glass. Works great against some teams, not so great against others.

He was fortunate that John Beilein left him Joe Alexander (NBA bust but a college star) and Da'Sean Butler - overall, the roster that Beilein left him had WVU in good shape talent-wise when Huggins joined the program for the 2008 season (which culminated in a Sweet 16 appearance). And Huggs was lucky that Kelvin Sampson's exit at IU allowed Devin Ebanks to decommit and go to WVU. But the problem is Huggins hasn't had a great recruiting class at WVU since 2008 (Ebanks, Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant). Although he got a couple top-100 forwards in Elijah Macon and Devin Williams to come aboard for next season, Macon was supposed to be in the 2012 class but failed to make the grade, and Williams is rated towards the lower end of the top-100. And getting highly rated forwards doesn't solve the larger problem he's had of his teams lacking good shooters.

WVU is 4-4 this year, which is not good for a team just a couple years removed from a Final Four run. Of course, in 2010 they were led by Butler, along with Ebanks (now with the LA Lakers), Jones and Bryant. All of those guys were East Coast kids, 3 from New York and one from NJ. With WVU moving out of the Big East, Huggins hasn't gotten any players from the fertile NY/NJ recruiting area since the 2011 class. It would be nice for OSU to schedule another home & home with WVU to try to make up for getting swept in 2009 and 2010.

If basketball doesn't work out, Huggins' big man Deniz Kilicli may have a future as a James Bond villain.
 
Upvote 0
DZ83CK;2294400; said:
I think the West Virginia basketball coaching job got a lot harder when they moved to the Big 12. Kids growing up in WV and the surrounding states weren't watching the Big 12 growing up.
Click to expand...

WVU doesn't build their roster with kids from West Virginia anyway so I don't think that's an issue....
 
Upvote 0
Mike80;2294423; said:
I know, but that's not really what he said....and I'm pretty sure they only have 3 kids from east of Ohio (not counting the guy from Turkey and the one from Ukraine)
Click to expand...

C'mon man, take it easy. WVU's great team in 2010 was built on mostly East Coast kids - that is a fact. Truck Bryant - NY. Kevin Jones - NY. Da'Sean Butler - NJ. Devin Ebanks played at St Thomas More and was born in NY. Fat chance of WVU putting together another roster with NY area guys to play in the Big 12.

The point about the recruiting base, what you're saying is not what I meant. They have a small state that doesn't produce much basketball talent, that is a problem that is now worse since the area surrounding WV is not Big 12 country - kids from Ohio, VA and PA don't grow up watching the Big 12 like how kids in NY and NJ grew up watching the Big East. It has to be harder to recruit to WVU now that they are on a distant "island" in their conference and the one state they are a natural draw in for recruiting is not a talent-rich one.
 
Upvote 0
Let's give the state of West Virginia a break when it comes to recruiting. According to the 2010 census there are more deaths in West Virginia than there are births. That is not a good thing when you're looking for young talent.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top