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When Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb was named head coach of the University Wisconsin-Green Bay basketball team, many wondered just how that was going to work.
While it is a less consequential potential conflict of interest than, say, an owner of an NFL franchise broadcasting NFL games for Fox, it still raised a lot of questions.
This week, after officially making his head coaching debut for his alma mater, Doug Gottlieb was a guest on The Main Event with Andrew Marchand and tried to answer some of those questions.
However, in doing so, Gottlieb somehow ended up taking a swipe at ESPN host Stephen A. Smith.
Doug Gottlieb thinks Stephen A. needs to prepare more.
Gottlieb, the coach of UWGB coach and Fox Sports radio host, is the guest on The Main Event pic.twitter.com/KdGInkigjP
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) November 7, 2024
“Stephen A.’s become a little bit too big for his britches,” Doug Gottlieb said at one point in the conversation. “I think a lot of those are artificial arguments. I respect how his strong an orator he is, how strong a personality he is and the fact he’ll bring his ‘Stephen A.’ to everything he does. But I also think there’s a level of preparedness that is missing or a level of realness that’s missing and that’s why I say those arguments are artificial.
“And that disappoints me,” Gottlieb continued. “Because I think there’s a lot of talented people out there that are getting opportunities. But they’re not really giving the depth of what they know. Instead they’re just making top level arguments, which is clearly barbershop stuff. And I don’t think you should settle for that level.”
Kevin Durant and sportswriter Jeff Pearlman would probably agree.