Gregg Gottlieb Position: Assistant Coach

Gregg Gottlieb begins his eighth season at San Diego State and his fifth as an assistant coach and the team's recruiting coordinator. Gottlieb is instrumental in player instruction, skill development and also assists in all areas of the program.

His numerous responsibilities include recruiting, on-court coaching and opponent scouting.

As recruiting coordinator, Gottlieb has played a major role in SDSU's nationally ranked recruiting classes each of the last three seasons. In addition to bringing in high-level recruits, he is also in charge of arranging unofficial, official and home visits.

Some of the players he has helped land at San Diego State straight out of high school include former all-MWC performer Marcus Slaughter, and current team members Brandon Heath, Kyle Spain and Richie Williams. Gottlieb has also landed high-profile transfers from other Division I programs such as all-MWC honoree Mohamed Abukar (Florida), Ryan Amoroso (Marquette) and Lorrenzo Wade (Louisville).

This past year, Gottlieb was instrumental in the signing of Jerome Habel, one of the top junior college players in the nation. One publication rated Habel as the second-best junior college player in America.

When Gottlieb is not recruiting he is heavily involved with player development especially with the squad's younger players. One of his greatest accomplishments was the scoring increase of former Aztec Aerick Sanders. Gottlieb helped Sanders, who averaged 3.8 points his freshman season, average 16.1 by the end of his senior campaign.

Gottlieb became an assistant coach in the summer of 2002, when former assistant Jim Tomey left to take the head coaching reigns of San Diego State's women's program. Gottlieb had served as the program's director of operations since October of 1999.

Gottlieb was a standout performer at El Modena High School in Orange County and followed that up as a two-year letterman at Drake. After his playing career, he returned to California and earned his degree in history and picked up a minor in business at UCLA in 1995.

Gottlieb moved into the collegiate coaching ranks at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. He was part of the staff that was responsible for one of college basketball's biggest turnarounds. The Mustangs' win total jumped from one in 1994-95 to 16 in 1995-96.

While at San Luis Obispo, Gottlieb completed work on his master's of business administration.

In July of 1997, Gottlieb became assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Cal State Sacramento. His first recruiting class in the Big Sky Conference ranked 43rd nationally.

After two years as an assistant coach at Cal State Sacramento, he joined the San Diego State staff in 1999.

Gottlieb comes from a basketball family. His father, Bob, is a former college coach who worked under Hall of Famer Jack Hartman at Kansas State and under Eddie Sutton at Creighton. His father was also head coach at Jacksonville and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

His brother, Doug, led the nation in assists while at Oklahoma State and currently is co-host of ESPN Radio's GameNight. His sister is the former marketing director for the Oakland Raiders.