Report: Doug Gottlieb a serious candidate for Green Bay head coaching job

Former college basketball player and current Fox Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb is a candidate for the Green Bay men’s hoops head coaching job, according to Jon Rothstein.

“Sources: Doug Gottlieb has emerged as a serious candidate for the head coaching vacancy at Green Bay,” Rothstein tweeted out Tuesday morning.

Gottlieb has never coached basketball at the college level in any capacity; however, he pined for the open Oklahoma State coaching job this offseason when the program fired Mike Boynton. He made the following pitch for himself as coach back in March during an interview with WWLS, an Oklahoma City radio station:

“You know I want that job. (I understand) what we have, what we need, what needs to be fixed, how to get the culture back in line, how to bring back the alumni, how we need to connect better with Stillwater and with the students and all of Oklahoma. I fully believe I can fill up the gym and I can get the NIL.”

Gottlieb knows he has practically zero track record as a coach, but still believed he would succeed at OSU:

“I understand anyone’s hesitance when you haven’t seen me draw up a play. I get it. It’s different. But if you want a different result, you have to try a different path. That’s life 101.”

Perhaps Green Bay will try that different path allowing Gottlieb to go from analyst to coach without having ever been on a college hoops sideline in a coaching capacity.

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