Following Oklahoma State’s recent head coaching vacancy, former Oklahoma State point guard Doug Gottlieb’s name as risen to the forefront. Gottlieb, who was a finalist for the coaching job at both Tulane and OSU in 2016, has made it clear that he would gladly become head coach.
Although many consider Gottlieb as an excellent potential recruiter and a bright strategist, many others criticize his lack of coaching experience. There have, though, been people throughout basketball history who have had coaching success despite no previous experience.
In fact, many of them are fairly similar to Gottlieb. Here is our list of four of the most successful coaches who didn’t have any experience beforehand (Gottlieb mentioned some of these in a video he did with Carson Cunningham on Sunday).