Current:Home > InvestReports: Wisconsin-Green Bay to name Fox Sports radio host Doug Gottlieb as basketball coach -FutureFinance
Reports: Wisconsin-Green Bay to name Fox Sports radio host Doug Gottlieb as basketball coach
View
Date:2025-04-14 09:03:33
GREEN BAY, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball team is expected to hire Fox Sports radio host and basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb as its new coach − according to multiple reports − one year after he was among the final five candidates for an opening that went to Sundance Wicks.
UWGB athletic director Josh Moon expected a quick hiring process after Wicks was named the head coach at Wyoming on Sunday.
Reports also indicate Gottlieb will be able to keep doing his radio show during the week while coaching at UWGB, providing a rather unusual dynamic but one that will give the program some national exposure.
Gottlieb doesn’t have much coaching experience, although he was part of a staff that coached the U.S. team at the Maccabiah Games in 2009 and 2017.
UWGB was impressed with him during his initial interview last year, so much so that he survived longer than some established head coaches and assistant coaches.
The Milwaukee native is among the all-time assist leaders in NCAA history during a career that started at the University of Notre Dame. He spent just one season at the school before a well-known incident in which he stole credit cards from fellow students, something he wrote about at length in an essay for The Athletic in 2018.
He eventually ended up at Oklahoma State, where he was a strong player for three seasons from 1997 to 2000 and still holds several school records.
Gottlieb interviewed at OSU twice when the job opened in the past and was considered a legitimate contender both times.
His late father, Bob, was the coach at UW-Milwaukee for five seasons from 1975 to 1980.
veryGood! (41588)
Related
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic
- House Republicans jump to Donald Trump's defense after he says he's target of Jan. 6 probe
- How Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world's oil markets
- Elon Musk's skyrocketing net worth: He's the first person with over $400 billion
- Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them
- Man, woman charged with kidnapping, holding woman captive for weeks in Texas
- Titanic Submersible Passenger Shahzada Dawood Survived Horrifying Plane Incident 5 Years Ago With Wife
- Jamie Foxx reps say actor was hit in face by a glass at birthday dinner, needed stitches
- Former Sub Passenger Says Waiver Mentions Death 3 Times on First Page
Ranking
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
- The Home Edit's Clea Shearer Shares the Messy Truth About Her Cancer Recovery Experience
- How three letters reinvented the railroad business
- Inside Clean Energy: Not a Great Election Year for Renewable Energy, but There’s Reason for Optimism
- Small twin
- How a civil war erupted at Fox News after the 2020 election
- At Haunted Mansion premiere, Disney characters replace stars amid actors strike
- In a Major Move Away From Fossil Fuels, General Motors Aims to Stop Selling Gasoline Cars and SUVs by 2035
Recommendation
SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
Lina Khan is taking swings at Big Tech as FTC chair, and changing how it does business
A new Ford patent imagines a future in which self-driving cars repossess themselves
See Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian Bare Her Baby Bump in Bikini Photo
Selena Gomez's "Weird Uncles" Steve Martin and Martin Short React to Her Engagement
US Taxpayers Are Spending Billions on Crop Insurance Premiums to Prop Up Farmers on Frequently Flooded, Unproductive Land
Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Full Speed Ahead With Girlfriend Heather Milligan During Biking Date
Inside Eminem and Hailie Jade Mathers' Private Father-Daughter Bond