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Just for the record.
We have 3 alcoholics in our family.
It wasn’t always easy but after a couple of family interventions, they realized they needed help. One relapsed, but got back on track. They all hit the meetings.
Thuggins isn’t that. He is a guy who thinks he’s Superman, can flaunt any rules- whether they be with alcohol, NCAA rules, academic rules, university rules, health rule advisories, marital rules, whatever- and get away with no consequences and with no regard for anyone else. He got a DUI once in Cincy, how many more unknown ones in Morgantown and hasn’t changed. He had a heart attack and within a year was as bloated as before.
He got held accountable once by Nancy Zimpher, and she was pilloried for trying to teach him a lesson, but ol Huggs just kept right along.
Sorry. No sympathy for someone who made little or no effort to change unlike those in my family.
Zero props for being forced to accept reality and punishment because he was too full of hubris to change even after all the warnings.
Bye Bye.

I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you because I'm not. A lot of people say this. The truth was...he wasn't held accountable. They paid him his contract, and a year later he was back in coaching and pulling in checks from two schools. The joke was that only Bob Huggins could get a DUI and end up making an extra $3 million dollars because of it.

As for the rest of your post, I'm glad to hear that your family members got through it. I personally made a decision a long time ago to never condemn anyone who has a substance abuse problem no matter how much or how little I like them. I've had my own issues and made my own bad choices, and to do so would be hypocritical. I get that a lot of people will chime in, and I suppose it's fair game since he is a public figure, and what does it really matter what people say anyway?? I do think alcohol/substance abuse is more rampant in college athletics, and in college coaching in particular, than what most people realize. I don't really feel sorry for him, but I do kind of hope that he realizes he's actually lucky. He's still got a chance to get over this and probably feel better about his life once he does. Sometimes what feels like the most embarrassing and humiliating and scary experiences in the moment turns out to feel like one of the luckiest things you've ever experienced when you look back on it and see how much better your life has been since then. And, it's also better to have your career crash and burn at 69 than at 29.