Sunday, October 17, 1999
Five questions with Bob Huggins
University of Cincinnati basketball coach Bob Huggins answers questions from Enquirer reporter Mike DeCourcy:
1. Sport Magazine placed you on its list of the worst-dressed college basketball coaches. Who among your colleagues belongs on such a list?
First of all, I find this amusing, since sportswriters may be the worst-dressed people in America, that one of those people would have the audacity to comment on how someone else dresses.
I'd say John Chaney — nothing matches. Bob Knight. Rick Majerus. He ought to get bigger sweaters. The form-fitting thing doesn't do much for him. How about Steve Lavin? Bad hair. Looks like a helmet. Mike Deane. How about that hideous blue sportscoat he wears?
2. What did you do for fun in your hometown?
You can't print it. ... Boy, what did we do? We just kind of played ball. That's what we did.
3. If you could have any five of the players you've coached on the floor at the end of a close game, whom would you want?
Depends on if we have the ball. If we do, (Nick) Van Exel, (Danny) Fortson, (LaZelle) Durden, (Darnell) Burton and probably Dontonio (Wingfield). No, substitute Herbert (Jones) for Dontonio. They can all make shots, and not any of them are afraid of big shots.
4. If you and your father were on opposite benches with teams equally matched in talent, whose team would win?
It's a tie. If it was better players, I would win. And if it wasn't real good players, he would win.
5. With so many preseason magazines ranking the Bearcats among the top teams, what do you think of the burden of high expectations?
It beats the alternative. I don't think it affects you much. Whenever it was that it happened before — 1996, '97? — it got to be disruptive from the onslaught of continual interviews and that sort of thing.
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