Tired of losing coaches to Michigan and deeply in love with Bob Huggins, West Virginia signed Bob Huggins to a ridiculously long contract. The thing lasts until Huggins's 65th birthday, which, as Mike Casazza details here, makes it a 10-year contract worth at least $20.5 million, and probably much more.

Huggins actually coached his first year at WVU without having signed a formal contract. And despite having heard the same things from John Beilein and Rich Rodriguez, I do believe that Huggins is firmly committed to being a Mountaineer. Maybe this makes me a sucker. But if he was willing to leave Michael Beasley for Morgantown, he probably does want to be there.

The contract does come with a couple of peculiarities, though. A couple of the termination clauses written into the contract are sort of interesting. A .pdf of the actual contract is available here, via the Charleston Daily Mail. Huggs can be fired for:

2. Commission by Coach of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude;

3. Substance abuse or habitual insobriety which affects his job performance;

Phew. So Huggs can be habitually non-sober, as long as it doesn't affect his job performance. So, at least theoretically, he can be on the bench with a bottle of scotch, as long as he says something like, "I just want everyone to know that I'm going to spend the last 5 minutes of the game running isos for Joe Alexander, no matter how much of this scotch I drink. Cool?"

Also, according to the Daily Mail's Jack Bogaczyk, the deal was made without the knowledge of WVU's athletic director. The university has some other problems, and it seems possible that the university president went straight to Huggins with the deal, because he wanted to get some good news about WVU out there.

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