{"id":1956390,"date":"2023-06-25T02:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T06:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huggins-out-eilert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T06:23:45","slug":"huggins-out-eilert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huggins-out-eilert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"WVU appoints Eilert as new men&#8217;s basketball coach, replacing Huggins."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhuggins-out-eilert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>West Virginia University Names Interim Coach to Lead Men&#8217;s Basketball Team<\/h2>\n<p>West Virginia University has officially named its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kings-fire-interim-coach-alvin-gentry\/\" title=\"Kings Fire Interim Coach Alvin Gentry\">interim coach<\/a> to lead the school&#8217;s men&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-official-announces-legislation-to-protect-national-anthem-in-wake-of-nba-controversy\/\" title=\"Texas Official Announces Legislation to \u2018Protect\u2019 National Anthem in Wake of NBA Controversy\">basketball team<\/a>, following the recent resignation of long-time coach Bob Huggins.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Administrators appointed assistant coach Josh Eilert to fill the vacant position, left open after Huggins&#8217; stepped-down earlier this month shortly after he was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in neighboring Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Bringing the Mountaineers Upwards<\/h3>\n<p>Eilert&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huggins-out-eirlert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach\/\" title=\"WVU appoints Eirlert as new men's basketball coach, replacing Huggins.\">resume lacks previous head coaching experience<\/a>, but, despite this, he emerged as athletic director Wren Baker\u2019s choice to bring the Mountaineers upwards, following a less-than satisfactory offseason with the start of practice just four months away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huggins-out-eilert-in-wvu-names-new-mens-basketball-coach\/\" title=\"WVU appoints Eilert as new men's basketball coach, replacing Huggins.\">knowledgeable basketball people<\/a> around the country over the last week, including coaches, professional basketball executives and others of whom I trust to identify a strong group of candidates to speak with,\u201d Baker said in a statement announcing the move Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately what I came to recognize, was that conducting this search in late June was difficult for many of our candidates and also it put our talented student-athletes at a real disadvantage. With that said, we will conduct our national search at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addressing the DUI Charge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following his recent arrest, Huggins addressed the DUI charge in a statement, saying, &#8220;My recent actions do not represent the values of the University or the leadership expected in this role. While I have always tried to represent our University with honor, I have let all of you \u2014 and myself \u2014 down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia University has appointed Josh Eilert as interim coach for the men&#8217;s basketball team. This decision comes after the resignation of long-time coach Bob Huggins, who stepped down following his recent arrest for alleged DUI. Eilert, an assistant coach, will now lead the team in Huggins&#8217; absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}