When Doug Gottlieb was hired as a male basketball coach of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in May, his other job as a host of the national radio was likely to cause conflicts between the two sometimes.
Super Bowl week was always going to be one of those moments.
Gottlieb was in New Orleans on Wednesday as part of Radio Row, which drew the attention of certain basketball fans and university media.
UWGB sports director Josh Moon was aware of the trip of the months in advance. It is almost a certainty that it will happen again next year when the Super Bowl is in San Francisco.
The Phoenix was extinguished and did not train on Wednesday. Gottlieb will not be able to watch the team train live on Thursday, but he will have the opportunity to review the film and speak with assistant coaches in preparation for the UWGB match in Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday. It is expected in training on Friday.
The optics of Gottlieb continuing to make its radio program while drawing a team of division I of the NCAA at the same time can be bad for some when the team it entails is 2-22 years and the sequence 19 games of 19 games.
“I respect anyone who wants to question is that the reason we lost 19 games in a row,” said Gottlieb. “The simple answer is that if you believe it, I can’t do anything to convince you to the contrary. Nothing. Zero.”
Gottlieb continued by saying that most coaches travel and recruit during the year, and the only thing about his absence which was disappointing is that he missed the basketball match of boys as Pere-Ashwaubenon Tuesday evening.
Doug Gottlieb’s schedule is full, but it focuses on UWGB
He was asked what his schedule looked like Green Bay on Wednesday and when he was not doing his radio show and did not speak to Tampa Bay Buccaneers who runs Rachaad White or the initiate of Fox NFL Jay Glazer.
Gottlieb did not have trouble making him vibrate.
He made recruitment calls. He spoke with his coaches. He was in communication with the players. Spoke several times with Moon. He was busy negotiating an agreement for a guaranteed game. He spoke to the sports coach and team doctor about two players dealing with an illness. He spoke to people with the Packers of Green Bay and Resch Center of his hope of playing some competitions at home on Saturday next season in the eve of a Packers’ home match. He planned to end the day with a telephone call to the former UWGB coach Dick Bennett.
“It is not as if we were here and that I left for Bourbon Street,” said Gottlieb. “It’s not like I drank a hurricane on Bourbon Street.
“If people want to think that I am not doing my job because I’m in New Orleans to do a radio job, which had been pre-plane, again, there is nothing I really go be able to say. Apart from, my players like to play for me and we will compete. »»
Gottlieb believed to be in New Orleans is a “burger nothing” and her boss accepted.
“Yes, he will not be there for Thursday training,” said Moon. “It would not be as if he would not have time to assess and pass and provide notes, and again, which is why you hire assistants. These guys make the scouts anyway.
“Then we have two days off per week because of NCAA stuff.”
The UWGB must be interrupted two days a week rather than the standard due to the PRB probation on which it was placed a few years ago, although the team average is not a problem under the ‘former coach Sundance Wicks last season or Gottlieb season.
The team finished the first semester under Gottlieb with a 3.32 GPA, which is the second best in the history of the program.
Ad Josh Moon still thinks that Doug Gottlieb can transform UWGB into a successful program
Gottlieb remains confident that he will transform UWGB by winning, and Moon continues to support him 100%.
“I understand that people accumulate,” said Moon. “But I think that the point here is that the whole method of what really makes a successful program, the standards of what works in university athletics no longer exists.
“Should a coach be here seven days a week in the office?” Does this translate? There are many coaches who do that who do not succeed. »»
Moon also thinks that these trips are good for UWGB.
“When he is there, he also works on the funnel of relationships and brings more people to the table for Green Bay,” he said. “Everything is calculated, that it will in turn help us to raise this program via more resources, connections.
“All of this is part of the mixture. Just because he works there for Fox Sports or Iheart Radio, we take advantage of it. »»
This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Doug Gottlieb defends the radio calendar in the middle of the UWGB losses sequence
