West Virginia Basketball: 10 candidates to replace Bob Huggins as head coach

Ron Everhart

While any of West Virginia’s three full-time assistants could get the interim head coaching gig, it’s Everhart who stands out with his experience and potential. Again, we don’t know what direction this search will go in or if this staff will even remain in place in the coming weeks, but Everhart certainly has a level of coaching experience you don’t always see on these types of coaching staffs.

A former player at Virginia Tech in the early 80’s, he spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach before beginning his own head coaching career at McNeese State in 1994. Everhart would spend nearly two decades as a D1 head coach, with stints at Northeastern and Duquesne in the following years. After Duquesne fired him in 2012, he joined Huggins’ staff at West Virginia and has been entrenched in Morgantown for the last eleven years.

Everhart presents the rare combination of extended head coaching experience and also an extended experience with his current program. He knows the ins and outs of West Virginia basketball and was likely very involved in recruiting every member of that current roster. He has the potential to keep this program in solid shape in the coming years, though you have to wonder if this would be the best hire long-term. He hasn’t sought another head coaching job this past decade and he’s already 61 years old.