The move nobody saw coming

Tuesday was a day for bigs in the portal, and an interesting move in the coaching world.

Let's get to it.

1. Green Bay’s out-of-the-box hire

The 66th — and final? — coaching move of the 2024 college hoops offseason might be the one everyone remembers.

Green Bay hired longtime media personality and former college basketball player Doug Gottlieb on Tuesday. 

The Green Bay job surprisingly opened when Sundance Wicks, who led the Phoenix to 18 wins in 2023-24, took the head job at Wyoming on Sunday after Jeff Linder bolted to be Texas Tech's associate head coach.

The hire by AD Josh Moon is interesting in more ways than one. First off, Gottlieb has never coached on a D-I basketball staff. Hiring a coach with zero experience is unprecedented. Second, Gottlieb will continue his daily FOX Sports radio show while coaching Green Bay.

Surely, that took buy-in from both employers.

"What he's doing now is a two-hour radio show. Balancing that is no different than what others folks have dabbled in in this area," Moon told CBS Sports. "This is different — I'm not saying it's the same — but the commitment for that in terms of how many hours in the day, Doug can balance that with where he's at in his career. His challenge is going to be: how do you balance the takes, the opinions and things that drive that process. That's what he's going to have to figure out."

While it's Gottlieb's first coaching gig, the coaching bloodlines run strong. Doug's late father, Bob, spent more than 20 years coaching D-I basketball with stints at Milwaukee and Jacksonville.

Gottlieb's hire led to mixed reactions from college basketball fans. However, well-respected coaches such as Rick Pitino, Fran McCaffrey, Tom Izzo, Chris Beard and Shaka Smart expressed support for Green Bay's new head coach.

2. Louisville’s got the right pieces in place

After a tweet … wait, six posts in the past 10 days from Kasean Pryor hinting at a possible commitment, this post finally led to an actual commitment.

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