Doug Gottlieb To End Fox Sports Show.

After 23 years as a sports talk host, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball coach Doug Gottlieb has decided to conclude his weekday show on Fox Sports Radio, which he has hosted since 2017, although he will continue to do his podcast.

The Division I coach announced his decision midway through a post-game press conference on Dec. 17 following UWGB’s 67-64 win over UC Santa Barbara. “I am no longer going to do live radio,” he said. “I’ll still be doing podcasts, and iHeart has been amazing about it. We will transition to a different version of it. It will still be the same stuff, but I’ll do it outside office hours and at home. You can take days off, and I can have a life.”

Earlier this year, Gottlieb decided to cut back on hosting the weekday show on days when games were scheduled after the team posted a 4-28 record, including a 21-game losing streak, in his first season coaching at Green Bay. So far this season, the team has improved to a 6-7 record.

Citing several conflicts between the radio show and coaching during the regular season — such as not being able to ride the bus with the team to an away game at IU-Indianapolis last week, and doing the show live at Radio Row during the week leading up to this year’s Super Bowl, making him unable to attend team practices prior to a game at Purdue-Fort Wayne — Gottlieb said, “Radio is a relationship. I have got to have a life, I have got to be here for those kids, and I have really got to dig in, because we are building something cool here. I’ve been doing it for a long time, but these kids (deserve) a fully dedicated coach. I know I’m fully dedicated, but you only get one shot at this thing.”

While Gottlieb’s five-year contract with UWGB includes a provision where he could be asked to end his involvement in outside activity should any conflicts be deemed to not be in the school’s best interest, that was not an overriding factor in his decision to end the show. “We’ve talked about it since he has been hired, and we wouldn’t have hired him if it was an issue,” Athletic Director Josh Moon tells the Green Bay Press Gazette. “This was in Doug’s court.”

Marcus Hall, a junior forward on the team, adds, “Some people might see it as not fully dedicated, but you could ask any player on our team, any coach, and I feel like he works just as hard if not harder than anyone else on the team. It’s cool that he will say that and he’s fully dedicated, but he was before that.”

A spokesperson for iHeartMedia Premiere Networks told Inside Radio, “Doug has been a valued member of the Fox Sports Radio family since 2017, and we wish him all the best as he focuses full-time on his role as head coach of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball team. We look forward to announcing a new addition to Fox Sports Radio’s lineup soon.”