Doug Gottlieb rips critics, calls for 'mea culpa from every f***ing one of you' when Green Bay starts to win

Year 1 of the Doug Gottlieb era in Green Bay remains a rocky one. The Phoenix started the year 2-3, but have since lost 18 in a row entering Saturday’s game against Detroit Mercy.

The criticism has been loud around Gottlieb, who also hosts his radio show on FOX Sports Radio while coaching in the Horizon League. Those critics aren’t quieting down amid the 18-game losing streak, but he had a strong message as the calendar flipped to February.

Gottleib demanded a “mea culpa from every f***ing one of you” while speaking on his podcast with co-host Jason Stewart. He said he hears support from current and former coaches who have his back.

“Again, this is what happens when you’re a writer. Honestly, this is what it exposes. It exposes that people who are writers, people who cover sports that haven’t been around a team, honestly, it’s embarrassing how little they know,” Gottlieb said, via Awful Announcing. “I got off the phone with two former head coaches who are now broadcasters… They understand; they get it. And the radio show isn’t even a thing for them because most high-major coaches have a radio show.

“But, I think it exposes how little people understand about one, this level of college basketball; how fragile it is when you lose your top two players… And so what my challenge to these people is, when we start winning, I want a mea culpa from every f***ing one of you. That’s what I want.”

Green Bay still hasn’t won a game in Horizon League play as Doug Gottlieb goes through his first season of Division I coaching. He also pointed out another notable coach who lost 18 straight games in his first year as head coach: Bill Self, who did so at Oral Roberts during the 1993-93 season when the Golden Eagles went 6-21.

“I know there have been plenty of coaches who have had plenty of struggles in their first year,” Gottlieb said. “And I know that I’ve learned a lot. But, I guess I just wonder, like, at what point is somebody going to go, ‘Yeah, you know, I actually watched the game; I actually thought they were pretty well coached.’ Or, listen, if you watch and you’re like, ‘They’re terribly coached because they don’t do X and Y,’ that’s fine. I just don’t understand the piling on because the record without any sort of context.”