The Wreck of the Robert Huggins is not a song by the late Gordon Lightfoot, but it's become every bit as tragic as the Wreck ol' Gordon did write about. Now Hugs is in rehab, but there is evidence it's not taking.
That's because he's saying he'll be back at work as soon as he completes his required drying out.
This despite the fact he resigned as West Virginia's basketball coach, announced he resigned, even cleaned out his desk.
This despite the fact West Virginia accepted his resignation, appointed an interim coach and considers the matter closed.
But Hugs claims he never signed the surrender papers, and also they were sent from his wife's email account, which he and his attorneys claim makes them invalid. The Blob wrote about all this just a few days ago, and played it for laughs, imagining an unhinged Huggins denying all in his courtroom appearance.
I'm not laughing anymore.
I'm not laughing, because Huggins claiming he's going to show up for work again as soon as he gets out of rehab isn't funny. It's sad and deeply delusional, and suggests Huggins has a long way to go to sort out his personal demons.
Oh, the jokes are there, if I were so inclined. I could wonder, for instance, if Huggins has legally changed his name to "Milton Waddams", the guy who kept coming to work even after he was let go in "Office Space." I could say Hugs doesn't look a thing like Stephen Root, the actor who so memorably portrayed Milton. And I could say Huggins really isn't returning to work; he's just coming back for his stapler.
But my heart's just not in it.
All I see now is a broken man who's go a lot of fixing ahead of him. If in fact he's fixable at this point.
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