Originally Posted by
kako
https://sports.yahoo.com/dan-dakich-...231831564.html
ESPN declines to fire Dakich. I predict eventually they will, because Dakich isn't going to change his spots. He doesn't have a following because of his insightful announcing or honey-throated voice. He makes his living being an agitator, and IMO he clearly doesn't have a grasp of boundaries. He plays to meatheads in his audience (probably mostly IU fans), and of course there are some. But I believe the greater college basketball audience (as well as the ROW) doesn't think doxxing someone is cool. smh, I don't understand why he's kept on, except that ESPN can be a good ol' boys network.
I think the article is spot-on referring to the Shilling comparison. Like Dakich, he just couldn't resist being a jerk. Eventually, ESPN (or basically Disney) needed to fire him. The same will happen here. Just not now, I guess.
9F
Here's a "Fair Use" quote from the Yahoo sports piece:
Dan Dakich reportedly won't receive any punishment for his latest string of online run-ins, but his employers at ESPN have told him it's behavior they don't want to see going forward.
That was the word from the Indianapolis Star and Awful Announcing on Wednesday, a few days after Dakich again made headlines for his conduct on Twitter. While discussing the opt-out of Duke freshman Jalen Johnson, Dakich escalated disputes with a pair of professors, at one point going as far as doxxing one of them by reading out his office hours on his radio show.
Soon, Dakich's Twitter account was deactivated, then reactivated, then deactivated again, while ESPN announced it was investigating the matter. One professor said Dakich had "debased and violated" her while going after her on his show.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013