Huggins is seriously considering the West Virginia job

[Sam Hall]

I don't understand why he would leave KSU after one year, knowing his team had a bright future. He could build KSU basketball into something they haven't seen in Manhattan. Huggins doesn't seem like the most loyal guy if he were to stay one more year but leave with Beasley and Walker.

Huggins mulls leaving K-State for West Virginia

April 4, 2007
By Gary Parrish
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

An impromptu rally on campus designed to raise support to help Kansas State keep Bob Huggins was canceled Wednesday night amid speculation the West Virginia graduate could be close to returning to his alma mater after one season with the Wildcats.

A source close to the situation told CBS SportsLine.com over the weekend that if John Beilein left for Michigan, then Huggins would be West Virginia's top target. Now, according to another source, Huggins is seriously considering the opportunity, but he's struggling with whether to pursue his desire of returning to the Big East at the expense of walking away from a Kansas State roster full of elite-level talents who would've never considered attending KSU if not for Huggins luring them to a remote part of the country far away from their homes.

Most notably, that list includes Bill Walker and Michael Beasley. Both could've gone anywhere in the nation, but each picked Kansas State -- hardly a traditional basketball power, at least in recent years -- based solely on Huggins or hires Huggins made upon accepting the KSU job a little more than a year ago.

According to a source, the ideal situation for Huggins would've been for the West Virginia job to open after next season, that way he could've exited Kansas State at the same time Walker and Beasley presumably turned pro. In other words, a move to West Virginia would've been a no-brainer for Huggins after the 2007-08 season, but under these circumstances, at this point, he's genuinely torn.

If Huggins leaves the trickle-down effect could be interesting.

Walker, a rising sophomore, is probably stuck at KSU regardless because transferring would force the 6-foot-6 wing to miss all of next season before regaining his eligibility -- meaning that's a senseless move considering Walker will likely enter the 2008 NBA Draft. But if Huggins left Kansas State, Beasley would almost certainly ask for his release from a national letter of intent, and if it was granted, the incoming freshman would be free to reopen his recruitment or perhaps even follow Huggins to West Virginia if KSU didn't object.

Attempts Wednesday to reach Huggins were unsuccessful.

Huggins led Kansas State to the NIT this past season. The Wildcats finished 23-12 overall. Prior to KSU, Huggins compiled a 399-127 record in 16 seasons at Cincinnati before resigning under pressure in August 2005. The forced resignation came a year after a highly publicized DUI arrest.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Actually, it sounds pretty Phog-esque.

My Dad and I were talking about this last night. This whole thing smells like the Shocker NCAA investigation/probation in the early 80s to me.

[ChiefaRoo]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

My Dad and I were talking about this last night. This whole thing smells like the Shocker NCAA investigation/probation in the early 80s to me.

What do you mean? What does one have to do with the other?

[Sam Hall]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Nothing gets by the Husker faithful. Huskerpedopheilia, um, Huskerpedia must have put a short paragraph in their latest "Sam Keller is tearing the scout team up"!

HP sucks. I just saw a story that would be of interest here.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo

What do you mean? What does one have to do with the other?

I have posted it on here numerous times that I feel Ted Owens is the guy that put the NCAA on to the Shockers. Call it sour grapes, but the action was swift, right after the Shockers upstaged KU in the 1981 NCAA tournament. The best team ever assembled by WSU was unable to make a return visit to the tournament.

Do you not find it ironic, now that KSU is on the verge of putting their program back on a high level and the investigation came up clean, that this thing about Huggins gets all blown up.

Who is stirring this pot? I could be all wet, but history has a way of repeating itself.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Do you not find it ironic, now that KSU is on the verge of putting their program back on a high level and the investigation came up clean, that this thing about Huggins gets all blown up.

Who is stirring this pot? I could be all wet, but history has a way of repeating itself.

LOL

[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

I have posted it on here numerous times that I feel Ted Owens is the guy that put the NCAA on to the Shockers. Call it sour grapes, but the action was swift, right after the Shockers upstaged KU in the 1981 NCAA tournament. The best team ever assembled by WSU was unable to make a return visit to the tournament.

Do you not find it ironic, now that KSU is on the verge of putting their program back on a high level and the investigation came up clean, that this thing about Huggins gets all blown up.

Who is stirring this pot? I could be all wet, but history has a way of repeating itself.

KU does own a black helicopter.

[ChiefaRoo]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

I have posted it on here numerous times that I feel Ted Owens is the guy that put the NCAA on to the Shockers. Call it sour grapes, but the action was swift, right after the Shockers upstaged KU in the 1981 NCAA tournament. The best team ever assembled by WSU was unable to make a return visit to the tournament.

Do you not find it ironic, now that KSU is on the verge of putting their program back on a high level and the investigation came up clean, that this thing about Huggins gets all blown up.

Who is stirring this pot? I could be all wet, but history has a way of repeating itself.

Hmmm, as a die hard fan WSU fan I'd love for it to be true so the true evil of the gheyhawks could be exposed for all the world to see. Their fear, their Rump Rangery smiling bird and their frat boy circle jerks et al. That being said I can't see how this could possibly have anything to do with KU. It seems to me like a case of native son going home after a year of getting his act together at KSU and proving he can win and stay sober.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by the Talking Can

KU does own a black helicopter.

You bastards were behind the Ricky Clemons fiasco too, weren't you.

It's all coming together now.

[ChiefaRoo]

I heard KU shot Kennedy and captured the 15 brit sailors and gave them to Iran.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Hey, you can't say things like that. Saul will never believe you.

I know, right?

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Sam Hall

HP sucks. I just saw a story that would be of interest here.

Don't sweat it Sam. I'm just giving you grief.

[ChiefaRoo]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Don't sweat it Sam. I'm just giving you grief.

Bill are you and Saul Ok? I mean you guys aren't going to OD, cut your wrists or jump off the top of Bill Snyder "Family" Stadium are you? I just want you to know I'm here for you. By the way the next time Weiser hires a crocodile tell him not to be surprised when he bites.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo

Bill are you and Saul Ok? I mean you guys aren't going to OD, cut your wrists or jump off the top of Bill Snyder "Family" Stadium are you? I just want you to know I'm here for you. By the way the next time Weiser hires a crocodile tell him not to be surprised when he bites.

No. He's gone. I don't even have any ill will towards the guy. It's the "what might have been" when I look towards next season that causes me some angst.