{"id":227004,"date":"2021-04-15T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dan-dakich-believes-his-espn-days-are-over-who-cares\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:18:31","slug":"dan-dakich-believes-his-espn-days-are-over-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dan-dakich-believes-his-espn-days-are-over-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dan Dakich believes his ESPN days are over: ‘Who cares?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dan Dakich believes his ESPN days are over: ‘Who cares?’<\/strong>”
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Controversial radio host Dan Dakich isn\u2019t losing any sleep worrying about his future as an ESPN college basketball analyst.<\/p>\n

Dakich\u2019s heated social media<\/a> feud with male and female college professors in late February prompted an ESPN investigation. Now that the season is over, Dakich isn\u2019t expected to get another shot at color commentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if ESPN is going to have me back. I assume they won\u2019t,\u201d Dakich said on his radio program on WFNI The Fan in Indianapolis, according to USA Today<\/a>. \u201cWho cares?\u00a0Who cares man?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dakich was discussing the life of Indiana basketball icon Bobby \u201cSlick\u201d Leonard, who died Tuesday. Leonard was 88 years old and served as a reminder to Dakich to not be preoccupied with what others think of you.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know let \u2019em come at you,\u201d Dakich said. \u201cI love the fact that a month ago all these bullets were flying my way from the most woke \u2026 I\u00a0love it. It\u2019s the best thing that ever happ<\/a>ened, regardless of what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

A female professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania said she felt \u201cviolated\u201d by Dakich after he used the word \u201cbitching\u201d in a Twitter argument. She also claimed that Dakich \u201csexualized\u201d a reference she made to being a former college swimmer.<\/p>\n

The root of the dispute was Dakich suggesting that Duke freshman Jalen Johnson quit on the team by opting out of the season with six game<\/a>s remaining and the Blue Devils headed for the rare failure of missing the NCAA Tournament. Dakich was not alone in this opinion among media members, but he wound up in a back-and-forth over Twitter with Duke lecturing fellow Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Dr. Johanna Mellis of Ursinus, who hosts a podcast on sports and labor issues.<\/p>\n

Mellis challenged Dakich to a race in the pool. His attempt to clarify his remarks on his radio program only landed him in further hot water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just said \u2018bitching\u2019 because it\u2019s what people do,\u201d Dakich said as a reference to complaining. \u201cIt\u2019s what everybody does, everybody just bitches. But that\u2019s sexist apparently because I said bitching and a lady was in the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then she wanted to, quote, go at it in the pool. Well, if you go at it in a pool, that\u2019s a public place and then I\u2019m going to get divorced, and then it\u2019s just going to be a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dakich, 58, played and was an assistant coach at Indiana under fiery legend Bobby Knight \u2013 they had a falling out in the years that followed \u2013 and later was the head coach at Bowling Green from 1997-2007. He was the interim coach at his alma mater following Kelvin Sampson\u2019s resignation in 2008.<\/p>\n

Dakich joined ESPN in 2010. He was suspended by WFNI for five days in 2019 for failing to \u201cadhere to journalistic principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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