Like father like son: Young Dakich begins down coaching path
Andrew Dakich has joined Chris Holtmann’s staff at Ohio State University as a graduate assistant coach, with an eye to ultimately leading a college basketball team.
Andrew Dakich has joined Chris Holtmann’s staff at Ohio State University as a graduate assistant coach, with an eye to ultimately leading a college basketball team.
Dakich, 55, used chewing tobacco through his 30s and most of his 40s, before he quit and launched an anti-tobacco campaign that now includes on-air and print ads.
I found it in poor taste to use a basketball metaphor when describing something as unfortunate and sad as someone seeing his dead father, and his lifeless body laying on the floor of a local auto dealership.
Off the air, the former IU player is casual, mostly easygoing and affable. But on his radio show on WFNI-AM, he’s a cyclone, often tearing into anything in his way.
While more than 1,500 people want Dan Dakich off ESPN's coverage of Indiana University, it appears there's a lot of support for the former IU player and coach in terms of ratings for his local radio show.
A.J. Guyton feels he and his teammates at IU have been disrespected by fellow former Hoosier-turned-broadcaster Dan Dakich. Guyton let loose during a nearly 20-minute tirade Thursday on WNDE-AM 1260.
Dan Dakich blasted his legendary former coach for 11-plus minutes on the radio this week. What Bob Knight told his IU players during their time at the school “was a complete and utter bowl of crap,” Dakich said.
Greg Rakestraw beat out numerous outsiders for his new job. Now there won't be anything that goes over the air at Emmis-owned WFNI-AM 1070 he won't be involved in, said company executives.
The hiring of former player Calbert Cheaney by Indiana University shows that relations are finally thawing between the school and Bob Knight or at least the backlash from Knight's firing is fading.
Former IU basketball player and coach Dan Dakich is one of the hottest sports broadcasters in the Midwest, and he’s about to take his act national.