Great mascot:
Now thatās a mascot I can get behind.
RIP Lucy you a real one even for a Bearcat
https://twitter.com/hallsimpleton/status/1578494802433576961?s=46&t=GQ9YYRAB-cZZ9anwltlQBA
Imagine Ralph today? Wow
Twardzik used to be my neighbor in Norfolk. Super nice guy.
#757 represent
Hold up Freshs LRA cake day and Reeceā¼ļøs actual bday! Lets goooooo
Nobody has started the crosstown shootout thread yet, @AnonymooseHoo @BDragon , so I guess I have to leave this here.
Nick the Quick is the only one Iād have a chance of recognizing, and heās on the Hawks staff.
20 Alumni 90 credit hours and 1 degreeā¦ looks like sUCks to me.
Also what is the protocol for former coaches who are still coaching at a different program hanging around at their previous program? Feels a little off.
Heās still got the WVU windbreaker. I guess heās doing the circuit b/c of his HOF induction.
Good eye, didnāt catch the logo at first. Makes sense making the HOF rounds. I mean HuggyBear is problematic, but Iāve always kinda liked him and I canāt explain why.
Itās hard not to when the CBB media and other coaches fawn all over him because he tells the best stories when they all get together at the Final Four
Heh good point. Never put that all together but probably hold some truth for me. Even when he was at UC I kinda liked him although I thought he was an ass. I also feel like he is a tie to quickly fading bygone era of coaching and as I age that makes me nostalgic as well.
The portal / no-sit-out era has hit hard. He doesnāt know what to do with his roster. This yearās is bizarre. Heās got a bunch of JUCO guys and then a guy in Tre Mitchell whoās not known as being a team player. Plus Joe Touissaint.
I think heās a legit great coach in terms of picking the right style (and heās adaptable), but does well with a certain type of guy (Jevon Carter), and pushes other guys away. Donāt forget he had Tshiebweā¦
This from the Almanac sums it up: āThereās a story he loves to tell. When he was recruiting Jevon Carter, he strolled
into an AAU gym at 8 a.m., a cup of coffee weaning away last nightās festivities,
only to watch him ball-hawk ball-handlers for 94 feet. Heād never seen Jevon
play before. Carter left the gym that day with his only Division I offer, from West
Virginia. It was a similar story for Daxter Miles, and Tarik Phillip, and so many of
the diamonds Huggins has found in the rough.ā
Man that story totally nails it. It is also impressive when you think of how flexible he is too. His WVU teams look nothing like his Van Exel teams which didnāt look like his KMart or early 2k teams at UC. Heās a master at find that fringe player and molding them/molding himself to fit them. Heās also always done well in the Juco and portal before there was a portal.
For as flexible as he is, I definitely think he is a my way or the highway type. You play for him and love him or you hate it and hit the portal.
That one wasnāt his fault. If anything his mistake was taking Oscar out of high school
Really? I thought it was, at least a bit. He had that other PF there that he favored (who was also good, but canāt remember the name ā looked it up, Culver)
I mean thatās the surface level reason. The real thing was Oscarās US guardian wanted the bag because it became clear Oscar wasnāt an NBA draft pick. Hugs either had to drop it or let him go.
Ah, interesting. Makes sense post factoā¦