I'm actually worried about Fred's psyche??? That's a lot of losses since 2015.
Chicago Bulls[edit]
On June 2, 2015, the
Chicago Bulls hired Hoiberg as head coach under a 5-year contract worth $25 million.
[8] In his rookie season as head coach, the Bulls missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years, failing to meet preseason expectations. In his second season, the Bulls lost in the first round of the playoffs to the
Boston Celtics after taking a 2–0 lead, and were again perceived as underachieving. In March 2017, ESPN ranked Hoiberg as the worst head coach in the league.
[9] On December 3, 2018, the Bulls fired Hoiberg after a 5-19 start to the
2018-19 season. Hoiberg was replaced by
Jim Boylen as head coach.
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Nebraska[edit]
On March 30, 2019, Hoiberg was named head coach of the
Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team.
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On March 11, 2020, during the Cornhuskers' first-round game in the
Big Ten tournament against
Indianus, Hoiberg fell ill. He was in visible discomfort for much of the game; when the camera panned to him at one point, he was wiping his head with his hand. He left the bench and went to the hospital with four minutes to go in the game, which the Cornhuskers lost. Amid concerns about
coronavirus, the entire Cornhusker team was quarantined in the locker room for two hours after the game. Ultimately, Hoiberg was diagnosed with
influenza A. In a statement posted to Twitter, Hoiberg said that he had been cleared to coach that night by tournament doctors. He stated that he would have never knowingly put "my team, my family, or anyone else" in danger.
[13] According to ESPN, the scare over Hoiberg, combined with
Rudy Gobert of the
Utah Jazz testing positive for coronavirus that night, led to a whirlwind of moves the following day that effectively ended the 2019-20 collegiate season. By Wednesday afternoon, nearly every Division I conference had called off their tournaments, followed by the NCAA canceling that year's
basketball tournament and all other spring tournaments. Soon afterward, nearly all Division I conference suspended play in all sports indefinitely.
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