WATCH: Green Bay basketball’s HC Doug Gottlieb makes special appeal to NCAA while eyeing a $2,000,000 prize money

As schools all around the nation acclimatize new rosters to their program, Green Bay head coach Doug Gottlieb is advocating for a major change in the collegiate off-season. Gottlieb, who joined Green Bay in May, already has his first set of NCAA players behind him. He has requested the NCAA to allow Phoenix to travel for the TBT tournament and consider it their foreign tour.

Currently, participation would break NCAA rules that restrict coaching staff from participating in clinics/camps more than 100 miles from the university, participation in non-NCAA sanctioned events, and more than two players repping the same team in NCAA-sanctioned events.

However, these rules don't apply to NCAA teams during a foreign tour, which is exactly what Gottlieb is urging for. Moreover, the coach also promises to donate the $2,000,000 prize money.

Each team is allowed to remark on a foreign tour once every four years. If Green Bay travels to Dayton for the July 20 game, they will be breaking NCAA bylaws. However, Gottlieb's plea can be up for consideration since the Phoenix's last foreign tour was a 2017 trip to Puerto Rico.

TBT (The Basketball Tournament) is an annual event that invites teams from all over the nation to participate in the high-stakes single-elimination tournament for a $2 million cash prize. While NCAA teams headline TBT each year, they mostly harbor the former players from the program.

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Doug Gottlieb will maintain his radio host job alongside coaching

Despite Green Bay being his first coaching role, Doug Gottlieb has been a basketball staple through Fox Sports’ The Doug Gottlieb Show. He plans to keep the microphone on the broadcasting/radio show.

Gottlieb believes the unique arrangement will enable him to accept a lower salary at the Wisconsin school; something that the Phoenix can utilize in other areas of their staff. Nevertheless, he is still up to shut down the radio show if both of his jobs do not harmonize well.

Gottlieb comes to the program after it went through an 18-14 record in Sundance Wicks’ only coaching season. Given that Green Bay had a 3-29 record before Wicks’ arrival, Gottlieb will have the pressure of maintaining the university’s upward trajectory.

Gottlieb has previously worked in a coaching role for Team USA’s Maccabiah Games stint in 2017 and 2022 alongside being part of Auburn Tigers’ coach Bruce Pearl’s crew for the 2009 Maccabiah Games.