"Doug Gottlieb Fights Back"

I mean, who thought this was going to end well?

Only read part of it. He moved from California to Wisconsin for the job. Meanwhile his divorced wife and kids live in Oklahoma. No wonder he sucks at both of his jobs.

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Call it jealousy or call it hate or call it trolling, much of the contempt toward Gottlieb is brought on by himself, and his lack of self-awareness can be compounding. He has been a well-known media figure for decades, and in the public's eye, a barb about a player or team or coach from years ago can stick and become personal to bystanders. He dishes it out but is unhappy being asked to take it. He'll criticize Bronny James from his perch as an analyst, for instance, but act gobsmacked when LeBron keeps receipt

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Perfectly describes the situation.

I think he’s just doing all this to drive ratings for the radio show up.

Beat a team by 13, handing them their 20th consecutive loss and the back into the HC’s car on your way out.

Like a boss.

The AD that hired him needs to be fired for letting him do his radio show. Doug was on his radio show in New Orleans during the Super Bowl in the middle of basketball season.

I get you're a small program and you gotta do whatever it takes to win/get attention. But shite, just hire a veteran Wisconsin high school basketball coach or an AAU coach. They could at least bring some players along.

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He argues still that by the way he perceives things, it's not his own credentials and worthiness as a coach at the root of people's issues with him -- but instead jealousy.

"Jealousy is really hard for people to process," he says. "I've been given great -- not good, great -- opportunities, despite being a very good, not great, player, at a very good, not great, not connected school. So people become inherently jealous and they can't process [it]."

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