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.
After his UW Green Bay basketball team lost to D2 Michigan Tech this morning, head coach Doug Gottlieb is absent from his afternoon radio program pic.twitter.com/UgafGZcZth
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 18, 2024
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.
