Tag: Doug Gottlieb

Doug Gottlieb didn’t show up for his radio show after losing to a DII school he called ‘Nobody U’

A terrible, no-good, very bad season so far for Doug Gottlieb and UW-Green Bay.

Well, this week just keeps spiraling for Doug Gottlieb. And it’s only Wednesday, folks!

The UW Green Bay head coach and Fox Sports radio host got roasted earlier this week by ESPN’s Adam Schefter after he tried to call out the NFL insider for a report on Michael Vick.

Not only did Schefter specify that his reporting on the story was accurate, but he also took Gottlieb to task for being a terrible basketball coach. Which, you know, that’s pretty fair! At the time, Gottlieb’s team was on a 7-game losing streak. That’s bad. Very bad.

It’s now worse.

UW-Green Bay lost to Division II Michigan Tech University on Wednesday. It was a close game! But, guys. This was not supposed to be a close game.

Gottlieb referred to Michigan Tech as “Nobody U” ahead of the game and insinuated that his team would win by 20.

“I don’t really like the idea of Nobody U coming in here…I always say, ‘What do we learn by playing a game where we win by 20?’,” Gottlieb said. “But there’s a methodology to it, and I’m going to have to adjust moving forward.”

Gottlieb’s team did not lose by 20. They lost by two. The final score was 72-70. That’s so embarrassing. Stack that on top of the Schefter call out and, whew boy, Gottlieb is having himself a week.

Things were so bad that he didn’t even show up to host his own radio show three hours after the game this morning.

The next time we see Gottlieb he might be wearing a paper bag over his head. Things are that bad for him right now.

On one hand, it’s hard to blame him. Losing like that to a team you shouldn’t lose to is never great. On the other hand, you talked all that smack. You’ve got to show up when things don’t go your way.

Either way, I guess this just shows you you can’t hire a hot-take merchant to coach a basketball team. Yikes.

Doug Gottlieb’s ‘Nobody U’ quip (predictably) backfired after Green Bay lost to Michigan Tech

This is real doofus behavior.

Somebody might want to tell Doug Gottlieb not to roast teams before a matchup. It never ends well.

In all honesty, Gottlieb’s probably not having a great week. His team, the Green Bay Phoenix, is in the middle of a horrific losing streak, and he’s lowkey beefing with Adam Schefter. Plus, things just got worse.

Before playing Michigan Tech, he roasted the Division II school during critical comments about his team’s opponents. “I don’t really like the idea of ‘Nobody U’ coming in here,” he said. “What do we learn playing a game where we win by 20?” Of course, those words predictably backfired. Not only did his team not win by 20, they Green Bay lost to the Huskies, 72-70, and their winning streak is now up to eight games. YIKES.

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Adam Schefter savagely roasted Doug Gottlieb after Michael Vick coaching report

OUCH.

WHEW. Things got heated on Tuesday when Doug Gottlieb — who is the head men’s basketball coach at Green Bay while still hosting on radio — questioned the reporting of ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Schefter reported that Sacramento State is “in discussions” to hire Michael Vick as its head coach, with “over $50 million in NIL” to help its efforts.

Gottlieb responded with this: “Jeezus Shefty, edit what agents tell you… 0.0% chance Sac State has $50m in NIL.”

Schefter replied with more reporting, along with this: “And Jeezus, Doug. A seven-game losing steak and last place in the Horizon League? Less time on social media and more time in the gym.”

OUCH.

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Green Bay hires radio personality Doug Gottlieb to coach men’s basketball

The Green Bay Phoenix are set to hire radio personality Doug Gottlieb to replace Sundance Wicks as head coach.

The college basketball coaching carousel is still moving, and the latest head coaching hire comes at Green Bay where the Phoenix are reportedly set to hire Doug Gottlieb to replace Sundance Wicks.

Wicks left just a few days ago to take the head coaching position at Wyoming in the Mountain West, a position vacated by Jeff Linder who went to Texas Tech to be an assistant coach in the Big 12.

Gottlieb is unquestionably an out of the box hire, coming to Green Bay as a well known figure in the sports media industry – with stops as a broadcaster at FOX Sports, ESPN, CBS Sports, and the Pac-12 Network.

He does have some coaching experience, leading Team USA at the 2017 Maccabiah Games and again in 2022 when they won gold. He also has stops at AAU and was a consultant for his alma mater Oklahoma State.

The 48-year-old does not have any head coaching experience at the collegiate level, however, and it’s unusual to say the least to see someone transition from the media space into coaching who has not previously been a head coach.

Green Bay went 18-14 last year and 13-7 in the Horizon League under coach Wicks, a huge improvement after winning just 11 games combined in the previous two seasons.

The Phoenix will hope Gottlieb, who interviewed for the job last year before Wicks was brought in, brings enough name recognition to the position to keep the positive momentum going in 2024-25.

Doug Gottlieb’s reported hiring at Green Bay while retaining his radio job is compounding disaster

Why hire Doug Gottlieb when you could try to catch a falling knife instead?

When you’re a low major basketball program, you can afford to take risks blue bloods cannot. Like, say, hiring a radio host with zero college basketball coaching experience.

That’s what the Green Bay Phoenix are reportedly set to do, making a Jeff Saturday-esque dip outside the world of established coaches to roll the dice on a media personality. Doug Gottlieb was one of the NCAA’s best ball distributors as a point guard at Oklahoma State in the late-1990s, but he’s best known as a syndicated radio host. Now, despite a coaching resume that starts and ends with Team USA at the Maccabiah Games, he’s getting the chance to take over a Division I program.

This is an odd choice, but the Phoenix — the fourth-most notable Division I team in the state of Wisconsin (out of four) can be excused for taking a risk. Green Bay won 16 total games in the three seasons between 2020 and 2023. The school made a great decision when it hired Sundance Wicks before the 2023-2024 season, only to see his 18-win performance rewarded with a job offer at the University of Wyoming.

Enter Gottlieb, who might work despite the evidence to the contrary. Or he might be stretched entirely too thin if, as reported, he’s planning on keeping his daily three-hour radio show ON TOP of a full-time NCAA head coaching gig.

That is … huh. At least Jeff Saturday had the presence of mind to leave his desk job at ESPN behind to take over the Indianapolis Colts. Gottlieb is pairing one full time job with another, meaning he’ll have to recruit, scout opponents, work out NIL deals, run practices and create game plans while still finding a way to fill three hours of radio time every weekday.

On top of that, a national radio show obliterates any privacy his program might have enjoyed. Gottlieb’s recruiting pitches will be indelibly tied to the hot takes he makes on air. Any suggestion he’s not the guy you hear on the radio will be met with skepticism, because he’s publicly been that guy for two decades.

When Horizon League rivals eye the same recruit, they’ll be able to make the point that none of their coaches have been sued for libel in the last two years. He’s bringing loud opinions on women’s basketball to a school where the women’s basketball team is by far the most successful program on the books. There is no nuance with a man who spends 15 hours a week shouting into the airwaves; what you see is what you get, and what you get is pretty easy to prepare for.

Green Bay was desperate to maintain the momentum of 2023-2024, a season in which the Phoenix had its second-best ever showing in the Horizon League’s regular season. They landed on a candidate who’ll immediately be the conference’s most recognizable head coach. But that double-edged sword will turn into a falling knife if he can’t focus on the job at hand.

Or, as Ron Swanson once put it:

National commentator blasts UCLA basketball’s NIL failures, speculates about Mick Cronin

Doug Gottlieb did not hold back.

The outlook for UCLA basketball gets worse by the day. The Trojans lost their fourth straight game Friday night, and they absorbed a second straight home-court loss at Pauley Pavilion after winning their previous 29 games at home. Maryland — which, by the way, is not having a particularly good season — went into Westwood and handled the Bruins fairly easily, building a 20-point lead and eventually winning by a comfortable nine-point margin, 69-60.

UCLA’s offense is a disaster. The Bruins simply lack high-end scorers and shooters. They don’t have elite talent. This is UCLA basketball we’re talking about, and the Bruins have been very good in recent years. They made the Final Four in 2021. They were a top-four seed in each of the last two NCAA Tournaments. UCLA basketball is not a program we cheer for here at Trojans Wire, but objectively speaking, UCLA has been good, and when UCLA is good in basketball, it should not have any problem landing top talent. Yet, as we noted earlier this week, coach Mick Cronin basically conceded that the Bruins’ NIL operation is deficient and has failed to bring in elite transfers.

Following the Maryland loss, Doug Gottlieb of Fox Sports not only made light of the Bruins’ NIL problems; he said Mick Cronin might get restless as a result. That point might be going too far — we think Cronin loves living in Los Angeles and won’t want out of UCL — but the focus on UCLA’s NIL deficiencies is impossible to ignore right now. It offers a parallel to what USC football is going through, and it’s something we’re going to continue to talk about.

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‘My response is Go Ducks:’ Mario Cristobal hilariously shuts down rumors about leaving Oregon for USC

When asked about leaving Oregon for USC, Mario Cristobal answered in a hilarious and abrupt fashion, reaffirming his place with the Ducks.

If there was ever any question about whether or not Oregon Ducks head coach Mario Cristobal might jump ship in Eugene and take his chances as the head coach of the USC Trojans, it should be put to rest immediately.

While appearing on the Doug Gottlieb show on Wednesday afternoon, Cristobal thought he was going to be involved in a conversation about his team, likely going over the program-defining win over Ohio State that took place in Columbus less than a week ago.

Instead, Gottlieb had other ideas and tried to talk to Cristobal about how possible it was that Oregon’s leading man would be interested in the job down in Los Angeles.

Cristobal’s response is priceless.

It was hard to imagine 24 hours ago that there’s anything Cristobal could do to make Oregon fans like him more, but he sure found a way to do it. The abruptness with which he shut down all questioning and even met Gottlieb’s hot-take persona with annoyance was endlessly entertaining, and something we will be listening to on repeat for quite some time.

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After having a coach leave Oregon for a “better job” less than a decade ago, it is refreshing to see Cristobal meet these rumors with such clarity. We can trust that his answer was honest.

“I’ll say it again, Go Ducks.”

Never change, coach. And please, never leave.

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Maria Taylor defends herself after Doug Gottlieb questioned why she gets an All-NBA vote

Maria Taylor stands up for herself after being called out by Doug Gottlieb.

The NBA released the media voting results for its end-of-season awards to the public on Friday, which meant that several reporters across the country had angry fans in their mentions asking them to clarify their ballot. One of these reporters was ESPN’s Maria Taylor, who left Lakers center Anthony Davis off her ballot entirely.

Davis received 99 out of 100 total media votes to make an All-NBA team, including 79 first-team selections, and 20 second-team selections. The only member of the media to not cast a vote for Davis was Taylor, and once fans on Twitter noticed and started calling her out, she explained that it was a “CLEAR mistake.”

Fox Sports’ Doug Gottlieb chimed in on the controversy, and openly asked why Taylor deserves to vote on the NBA’s All-NBA teams, arguing that she isn’t qualified for the privilege.

Many fans and fellow media members defended Taylor, and she spelled out exactly why she gets a vote in a direct response to Gottlieb.

Gottlieb didn’t stand down, though, and dug in on his take.

The exchange comes just a few days after had to defend herself after a radio host made sexist remarks about the outfit she wore during a Monday Night Football broadcast. The host, Dan McNeil, was later fired.

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OK State players disputed Doug Gottlieb’s tweet about the team’s demands for Mike Gundy

Why tweet that?

Oklahoma State football players — led by star running back Chuba Hubbard — threatened a boycott on Monday after a photo circulated on social media showing head coach Mike Gundy wearing a One America News T-shirt.

In the hours after Hubbard tweeted his frustrations with his coach promoting a far-right television network — an outlet that’s known to parrot racist and xenophobic conspiracy theories — Hubbard joined his head coach for a Twitter video and ended up being the one to apologize.

Yet, Hubbard promised that change was coming for the program. And on Tuesday, former Oklahoma State basketball player and current Fox Sports talking head Doug Gottlieb claimed that players came to Gundy with a list of demands. Those demands concerned things like hair, music and the ability to sag pants.

Gottlieb — who has even had his credibility questioned by his own colleagues — said that Gundy agreed to those “demands.” But immediately upon seeing that tweet, Oklahoma State football players were quick to dispute the claim in its entirety.

Gottlieb’s only follow-up on the unsourced tweet was to tell someone that he was “serious.” But the chorus of Oklahoma State players denying that tweet should be telling in itself.

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