We needed a better know thy enemy on Doug Gottlieb. 

This morning I was perusing ESPN.com articles on account of 3/4s of my office took the week off and its dead here, when I came across some of Doug Gottlieb's writing.   It was an article about point guard play this year where I expected to find some good Flynnformation (yes I combined Flynn and Information, and yes, you can use my new word).  Well I couldnt see it because Im not an ESPN Insider, nor will I be on account of I dont want to pay to support Gottlieb.

This lead me to do some searching on the guy. The logical place to start was "Why is Doug Gottlieb such a douche bag?" in google...  Then I checked out his wikipedia page.

What did that turn up?  Well I was expecting to find he was molested as a boy by a homeless man wearing a syracuse shit he got from Salvation Army or Jimmy B didnt recruit him, the "best of the west pg" who happens to be jewish with an eating disorder (the last part of that is still under investigation) and would be a great fit for this school. 

So what did he do? The same thing any other jewish teen would do (Sean)... get in with the Catholics!  

After signing a national letter of intent with Notre Dame, Gottlieb was the starting point guard for Notre Dame during the 1995-1996 college basketball season. He started all but four games for Notre Dame during that season.

Well that didnt work out because of some credit card issue.  Something about stealing, and $900 later hes getting his AA degree at Golden West College. Well on his way to be a substitute teacher for retarded kids.

But coach Sutton gave him another change at college ball, he went to OSU and was played some ball in europe... whatever no one cares.

Why the beef with SU?

Wikipedia says:

Gottlieb and Syracuse University basketball coach, Jim Boeheim have traded barbs ever since 2005 because of Gottlieb's criticism of Syracuse's soft preseason schedule and Boeheim's comments regarding Gottlieb's difficulties at Notre Dame. Gottlieb and Boeheim refuse to discuss their feud publicly.

A facebook group expands on the feud by chronicling his hypocrisy

March 6 - "Syracuse might have beaten G-town but there still not dancing"

March 7 - "With the win over Uconn Syracuse as stamped its ticket, and should be looking at a 10 seed"

March 11 (Selection Sunday) - "Syracuse doesnt deserve tog et in and the comity got it correct."

Bob Wolfley at JSOnline mentions our beef along with those of other coaches

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim took a swipe at Gottlieb because the analyst said many Big East teams, including Syracuse, played non-conference schedules so soft they are "fraudulent."

Jimmy B has just as much right to call him out as he does to question our schedule.  His conviction of misdemeanor fraud is public knowledge. 

So who else hates him?

There is a nice USA Today article which gets into his verbal diarrhea.

From there we learn he likes Triple Venti Soy Caramel Macchiatos.

It also details how he ended up at ESPN with a business degree (sorry Newhouse didnt want you)

Gottlieb, who has a business degree, began his broadcasting career in 2002 on WWLS 640-AM, "The Sports Animal," outside Oklahoma City, hosting a midday show until ESPN offered him an audition and hired him.

His thoughts on broadcasting:

"I am the way I am because I would watch guys (while growing up) and think, 'Why don't they just say what they are really thinking?' " Gottlieb says. "Why does everybody have to talk in code?"

Well Doug, its not code, its called Tact and you dont have any.  You dont call people idiots or cast jusdgement (especailly someone in your postion)  You really cant criticzise teams for being poor from the charity stripe when you shot 46% at OSU.  Players for bad decisions when you got kicked out of ND.

Doug has a need to bother people even when not on TV

When he finishes work late at night and the East Coast is asleep, Gottlieb calls his father, a basketball coach for four decades, or his brother in California during the 30-minute ride home.

Its a syndrome.

Dead Spin has a nice Doug Gottlieb chat

Mike Rutherford at Card Chronicle said during an SU Nova game:

Doug Gottlieb is here to remind us how much we loathe that annoying, loud, spiky-haired guy at the bar

DYK Doug has a facebook profile? He has yet to confirm me.

Some of the facebook groups about Doug: Doug Gottlieb: Jerkoff, Doug Gottlieb is the biggest douchebag in the world (answers my question), Fuck Doug Gottlieb: Tru Syracuse Hater, Doug Gottlieb is a piece of shit!!!!, Doug Gottlieb has no penis and several others.

I feel bad for the two dudes with the same name.  Thats almost as bad as being named John Clayton.

What do we learn from the facebook groups?

This guy is so smug and a pompous prick. He loves attention, getting it by making smart ass comments with confidence. And no, this part isnt from wikipedia. This is fact.

Well there you go. Its fact. So says some kid on facebook.

We also learn:

DID YOU KNOW? (Doug Gottlieb Edition)....

* Behind powerplants and automobile engines, Doug Gottlieb is the 3rd leading cause of global warming?

* Doug Gottlieb is 0-4,628 at the urinal?

* Doug Gottlieb slept with Davis from The Real World Denver?

* Doug Gottlieb takes his coffe with a two cubes of sugar and a small carafe of sperm?

* The spokes of Doug Gottlieb's childhood bicycle were adorned with Billy Bean baseball cards?

*Doug Gottlieb is a no-talent ass clown?

Yup.

So besides being the "guy who wore his shorts backwards" Doug Gottlieb is a Douche Bag and if I see him around CT, Ill let him know.

Lets try and use this post to document when he rips cuse and rip him back.