Dan Wetzel - Huggins

Dan Wetzel did a good job with this article.

Huggins goes home
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – They crowded the courtside sections just to watch and listen to him conduct his postgame radio show, then lined up to shake his hand or give him a hug. Later, Bob Huggins would share jokes in a press conference with Mickey Furfari, the 84-year old local sports writing legend who covered him as a player all the way back in the 1970s.

Soon he would be at a local hotel for a reception with many of his former teammates. His dad would be there, of course, not to mention some siblings, some cousins, his daughters and some nieces and nephews. Later there'd be more friends and family then he could count at the football game.

Back here in the town where he was born and attended college, not far from where he grew up over in Ohio, and in a region of the country where all his closest ties reside, Huggins has allowed those country roads to take him home – where his first West Virginia team is 6-1 following an impressive 88-59 rout of Auburn on Wednesday.

But here last Saturday, in the minutes and hours following a solid victory over Winthrop, was the other half of Huggins happiness.

The guy might not boast much of a national public image – a combination of the snarling way he coaches and the way some of his teams have conducted themselves on and off the court.

But if nothing else, the man is undeniably loyal. To his players (sometimes to a fault), to his employer (he hung on at Cincinnati for 16 seasons even long after things got rough) and mostly to his friends and family.....................