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by ccorra12
Normally I write political blogs. Normally I hate writing about sports because, I'm going to be honest, I'm not the biggest sports fan. However, I am a big WVU fan. Much like the rest of this state, My family flew our gold and blue flag pretty high on the night of the final four game.
It was heartbreaking, truly heartbreaking to see Da'Sean Butler go down. He is arguably one of the best players to put on a WVU basketball jersey (with the likes of Jerry West and Hot Rod).
This is probably old news by now, but Bob Huggins showed first class integrity.
Up to this tournament, Bob Huggins media persona wasn't exactly the greatest or ideal. I was an avid bearcats basketball fan back in the day, so I was familiar with Huggins a little bit before his days as WVU's head coach. I was devastated when he was asked to resign from cincy due to a few DUI's, however I was disappointed about the choices he made.
Those mar his reputation, as well as his lackluster graduation rate with his players.
But this tournament, we have seen a new side to him... this year even.
Joe Mazzulla had what most doctors would call a career ending injury. He was as good as done. With a man like Bob Huggins, hell any coach, you would expect him to be dropped and forgotten about...move on to a new guy with good ball-handing. This was obviously not the case. No, Huggins saw his potential, he saw he had a dream and had desire. Huggins gave Mazzulla that chance. That chance was what helped skyrocket WVU to the final four.
And if this wasn't enough, the true character showed during the game as Butler lay heartbroken with a badly torn up knee was enough to bring anyone to a quiet teary eye. The man showed some incredible character, class which I was unaware he possessed. I always viewed Huggins as a stern, fair, down-to-business coach who won games. Who cam in and took care of business and left.
My view is changed.
Congratulations to both the men's and women's basketball teams for making it as far as they did. |
