Green Bay College Hired Fox Sports Radio Host as New Men’s Basketball Coach — And He Gets to Keep the Media Gig

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Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb has been named the new coach of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay men’s basketball team.

Though Gottlieb will serve as head coach for the upcoming season, he will continue his media role with Fox Sports, CBS Sports reported Tuesday, calling it “an unprecedented arrangement.”

Gottlieb, a former player, began his college career in Notre Dame in 1995. After that season, he played one season of junior college before spending his final three seasons at Oklahoma State. For his career, he averaged 5.1 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game. Gottlieb is 11th all-time in career assists at the men’s Division I level.

Though he has no coaching experience at the college level, Gottlieb served as both an assistant and head coach at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. He also spent years coaching AAU teams in California.

Gottlieb was in the running for the Green Bay job last season before the program ultimately chose Sundance Wicks. Wicks recently took the head coaching job at Wyoming, leading Green Bay athletic director Josh Moon to tap Gottlieb for the open position.

“It is an honor beyond measure to be named the 10th Men’s Basketball coach in UWGB history,” Gottlieb said in a statement from the program. “I would like to thank Chancellor Mike Alexander and Josh Moon for this incredible opportunity. Every kid has a dream growing up, some want to be firefighter, others want to be president, I have always wanted to be a head basketball coach at the Division I level.”