Fox Sports host Doug Gottlieb has reportedly been hired as Green Bay's coach and will continue to host the radio show

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay recruits Fox Sports radio host and former NCAA point guard Doug Gottlieb as men's basketball coach, according to multiple reports.

The former college point guard will continue to host his radio show in an unusual arrangement. According to reports. This is Gottlieb's first big job as a head coach.

Gottlieb has never coached on a college bench. He has worked as a coach on the AAU circuit and for the U.S. entry into the 2022 World Maccabiah Games.

Gottlieb reportedly initially interviewed to open at Green Bay in 2023. Green Bay ultimately hired Sundance Wicks, who left the team after one season to take the head coaching job at Wyoming. In Wick's only season as head coach, Green Bay posted a 15-win improvement from 3-29 to 18-14. The Horizon League program is seeking a return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016 and second time since 1996.

Gottlieb, 48, played one season of college basketball at Notre Dame and then transferred to Oklahoma State for three seasons from 1997-200. He left Notre Dame after his freshman year when he was accused of stealing and using the credit cards of three fellow students. He has since admitted this in a first-person essay for The Athletic headlined “The mistakes I made and the price I paid.”

Gottlieb played three successful seasons as a starter at Oklahoma State. He is 11th all-time in NCAA assists.

Gottlieb has since served in multiple media roles as a basketball analyst and personality for ESPN, CBS Sports and currently Fox Sports. In these roles, he caused controversy on several occasions, including portraying the “white man's perspective” on an all-black CBS set with Greg Gumbel and Charles Barkley and by denying ESPN's Maria Taylor eligibility for All-NBA teams to vote, questioned.

Casey Close, the former agent for MLB slugger Freddie Freeman, sued Gottlieb for defamation in 2022 after Gottlieb reported that Close failed to provide him with information during negotiations that ultimately led to Freeman signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. to tell him about an offer from the Atlanta Braves. Gottlieb later retracted his report, admitting that it was incorrect.

He reportedly currently hosts the nationally syndicated Fox Sports Radio show and will continue to do so while coaching Green Bay.