Bob Huggins suspended 3 games, takes $1M salary reduction after using homophobic slur

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins will be coaching on the sidelines next season after using homophobic slurs toward Xavier University fans during a recent radio appearance. 

In a lengthy statement emailed to Fox News Digital, West Virginia University detailed the consequences of Huggins' "inexcusable" language. 

West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins points out a call to his team during the Kansas Jayhawks game on March 10, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The university said Huggins' language "unfairly and inappropriately hurt many people and has tarnished West Virginia University."

"It is also a moment that provides the opportunity for learning. A moment that can shine a light on the injustice and hate that often befall the members of our marginalized communities," President E. Gordon Gee and Director of Athletics Wren Baker said in the statement. "While the University has never and will never condone the language used on Monday, we will use this moment to educate how the casual use of inflammatory language and implicit bias affect our culture, our community and our health and well-being." 

Huggins' annual salary will be reduced by $1 million, with the money going directly to "support WVU’s LGBTQ+ Center, the Carruth Center and other state and national organizations that support marginalized communities."

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Huggins will also be suspended for the first three games of the 2023-24 college basketball season and his multi-year contract will become a