Bob Huggins asserted on Monday that he had never resigned as the West Virginia men’s basketball coach after being arrested and charged with driving under the influence last month, contrary to a statement released by the university, and that he expected to be reinstated after completing a voluntary rehabilitation program.
In a statement on Monday, Huggins said that a university announcement of his resignation on June 17 was false, and that he “did not draft or review WVU’s statement.” Huggins said he had not signed it, and therefore never resigned according to the employment agreement in his contract. One week after his announced resignation, the school named an interim replacement.
He said he had been in a rehabilitation center that he was planning to stay in “until I am cleared to return to my active coaching duties,” and he apologized for “the mistake that I made in Pittsburgh,” referring to his arrest. Huggins’s statement was first obtained by West Virginia MetroNews.
The statement came after David A. Campbell, a lawyer for Huggins, had sent a letter to the university’s president. In the letter, first reported by West Virginia MetroNews, Campbell wrote that the university had announced Huggins’s resignation based on an email sent by his wife, and that…
