During the ‘Extra Point’ segment on 670 The Score’s Mully & Haugh show, hosts Mike Mulligan and David Haugh weighed in on the news that the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hired FOX Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb as its new head basketball coach. That in itself would be pretty big news, however, it is that Gottlieb plans to still do his daily radio show which is making more of the headlines.
“Look this is unprecedented with Doug Gottlieb,” said Haugh. “I’m fascinated to see how it goes, it’s a lot to take on. I am more surprised, not that he would try it, but that Green Bay would let him do this. You are allowing him to have divided attention and you know that his commitment is 90% to the basketball program. He’s got to give 10% to the radio show, it’s a two-hour national radio show. Even though that doesn’t sound like a lot to some people, it is.
“If you are going to be prepared and not sound like a fool you are going to have to prepare and spend some time. He is good at that and his basketball credentials, I think, speak for themselves. He is an easy target for criticism because he is outspoken, he does say some polarizing things…I don’t know if this is going to work, it’s going to be a lot of fun to watch and to listen to, to see how he balances both things and I do wonder, will it lead to someone else trying this? This is a great platform for Green Bay basketball, and I don’t know if they could ever say that before.”
Mike Mulligan added, “I wonder about Doug Gottlieb as a head coach…I think the tricky part here is keeping his day job with FOX…You better be following your sports and doing your work and putting in all the effort required to get that done. I look at it and wonder how successful he is going to be…It’s a launching pad type job there…Could he replace a certain someone at St. Johns and then maybe get on the FAN in New York, is that his master plan?…The problem is that it is very difficult to do two full time jobs and do them well…it’s very hard to be a guy that’s working at one career, even if it overlaps, and then working at another one…He is going to need a lot of help.”
In making the official announcement at the top of his radio show yesterday, Gottlieb said, “I told my kids this: This is the response to people who want to laugh at it. If no one is laughing at your dreams, you might not be dreaming big enough. So, I am honored, I am motivated, and I am ready, and I am the new head coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay and I ain’t going anywhere with this radio show.”
