Doug Gottlieb is making an attempt to do one thing that has by no means been completed earlier than in school basketball and it isn’t going nicely so far. Inexperienced Bay is horrible.
The Phoenix misplaced each single recreation within the month of December after its head coach cracked a joke about how he was not going to work in the course of the holidays. The irony is actually wealthy.
Gottlieb, 48, was employed by Inexperienced Bay in Could. By no means earlier than had he coached school basketball. The truth is, he had by no means coached basketball on any stage. Not even a youth rec league.
The Doug Gottlieb experiment shouldn’t be going nicely!
Not solely did Gottlieb get a Division-I teaching job with none prior expertise, the college allowed him to maintain his different job as a radio host on the Fox Sports activities community. It requires him to be on the air for 3 hours a day, 5 days every week. His recreation day schedule usually seems one thing like this:
7:00am — Get up
7:30am — Espresso with workers
8:00am — Work out
9:00am — Breakfast
10:00am — Shootaround
12:00pm — Arrive again to lodge
2:00pm — Taped podcast
3:00pm — Reside on ‘The Doug Gottlieb Present’
5:00pm — Off-Air
7:00pm — Tip-off
Gottlieb seems completely exhausted by his uncommon and grueling schedule. Nonetheless, he was in a position to recharge his batteries with some household time over the vacations!
Each ounce of my coronary heart in a single photograph #MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/uE4XwUDjEQ
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) December 25, 2024
Don’t get me unsuitable right here. Coaches have lives too. They’re entitled to spend time with their household. Particularly at Christmas.
With that being stated, the Phoenix dropped to 2-14 with a blowout loss to Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday after Doug Gottlieb’s tone-deaf put up at the start of the month. His crew didn’t win a single in December (and misplaced to D2 Michigan Tech) after he jokingly vowed to not work.
The primary-year head coach posted the next calendar to X on Dec. 3:
It’s essentially the most great time…. pic.twitter.com/gatlflz5lv
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) December 3, 2024
As it could prove, the calendar was the proper strategy to foreshadow what was to return. Inexperienced Bay went 0-7 in the course of the remaining month of 2024 after Gottlieb made that put up.
To make issues even worse, star switch Isaiah Miranda is now not with this system after a sideline tirade in the course of the loss to Michigan Tech. The wheels are falling off in Wisconsin.
In the meantime, Doug Gottlieb — in response to the calendar he posted — is destroying his physique with meals and alcohol whereas getting ready for the inevitable disappointment that’s New Yr’s Eve.
