WTF?!? - Dan Dakich
Anyone else see what's going on with Dan Dakich?
In conjunction with some Twitter discussions regarding Jalen Johnson's decision to leave Duke, Dan went off on two people who mentioned him on Twitter.
He called a Duke athletic scholar named Nathan Kalman-Lamb a "d-bag" and made some very sexist comments to Dr. Johanna Mellis, a university professor. He referred to her as "some lady" and discussed "going at it" in a pol with Dr. Mellis.
Not a great look for Dan....who has of course now deleted his Twitter account. I'm an old guy so my apologies if the link below doesn't work.
https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/dan-dakich-deleted-twitter-college-basketball-espn-01ezn5ajnhtp
February 28th, 2021 at 5:32 PM ^
Wow. Looking forward to seeing Ant Wright's take here, for sure.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
Not a fan of Dakich, so f#*@ him. He will just say he got hacked, and it wasn't him.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:53 PM ^
Ant ain't a fan, either (understatement).
February 28th, 2021 at 6:21 PM ^
He said some of it on the radio. Hard to hack that
February 28th, 2021 at 7:45 PM ^
deep fake
February 28th, 2021 at 5:32 PM ^
Douche bags do douche bag things
February 28th, 2021 at 5:35 PM ^
I meant "going at it" in a "pool"...not a "pol."
Can someone let me know how much money I need to donate to MGoBlog so that we can edit original posts?
February 28th, 2021 at 8:11 PM ^
Just send me a cashier's check for $100,000 and I'll get it done.
February 28th, 2021 at 8:53 PM ^
You must be some sort of Prince from a far away country. DM me and I’ll send my checking account. I can help you hide some of your money.
I asked about it when I saw your comment and then they reminded me this feature is off on purpose because of a security concern.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:38 PM ^
I'm sure the other side of that conversation was completely level-headed and respectful... especially considering the issues being discussed.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:59 PM ^
They actually were, agree with their opinion or not. They accused him of profiting off of a system he was defending but I don't remember them calling him a d-bag or discussing things they would do to him in a pool.
February 28th, 2021 at 9:19 PM ^
Dakich is a self-righteous d-bag, but accusing him of profiting off of the system? Because he calls games? That's a reeeeal reach for moral outrage. Surely any fan is also perpetuating things as well. Also, a guy with his name spelled out in his Twitter handle saying Dakich doxxed him for spelling his name is pretty hilarious. I'm not saying Dakich isn't a total moron or that he was being reasonable. And I'm all for paying players. Just seems really stupid all around though.
February 28th, 2021 at 11:08 PM ^
What is the point of spelling out someone's name and giving his office hours on your Radio show if you are not encouraging your listeners to go and harass that person?
I'll bet a dollar no one is driving to Duke to argue with some professor about basketball.
February 28th, 2021 at 8:01 PM ^
Have you ever listened to Dakich? If so, you know better.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
I’ve said it before. Dan Dakich is a loud mouth dbag IMO. I got dinged for it but that’s who he is IMO.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:47 PM ^
Yes you’re the only person who said that
February 28th, 2021 at 11:40 PM ^
The most annoying thing about Dakich is how he spouts off about how much money he makes on sports betting. He provided some "expert" picks ATS on a few college basketball games last week. Yeah, I bit and lost on all of them.
Tool.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Not much of a Dakich fan, but are you saying that referring to a woman as "some lady" is a sexist comment? I hope there's more to it than that, or that is the reach of a lifetime
February 28th, 2021 at 5:43 PM ^
Duke doesn't need to be defended either. They are d-bags all on their own without another d-bag stating the obvious.
He mean Duke-bags. People are too sensitive.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
Not necessarily, but if you read the rest of it, he mentioned that if they were in a pool together, they would "go at it" with her and mentions he'd have to divorce his wife. That's the sexist comment.
Also the fact that he's downplaying an accredited professor as "some lady" is pretty damn sexist.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
I think when you say "some lady" as a way of diminishing her words or opinion, based on her being female, that would be considered sexist.
February 28th, 2021 at 5:55 PM ^
I'd agree with you if he said "some bitch", but calling a woman a lady isn't sexist. If he referred to a male professor as "some guy", would you think that's sexist?
February 28th, 2021 at 6:01 PM ^
Well he did say she was "bitching at" him.
Calling a male professor "some guy" isn't the same. Women have been discredited for years as not equal to males in the academic field. This just plays into that.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:08 PM ^
Is it really anymore? Regarding the discrediting comment, it's 2021, not 1971.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:23 PM ^
Old habits die hard right? That is the exact reason why he deleted his Twitter. This would have been okay in 1971, but not in 2021.
February 28th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
I'll back up Oron on this one: I have heard numerous female colleagues at my university complain that students (and others) regularly refer to male professors as Dr. so-and-so, but they get Prof. so-and-so (which isn't horrible except in comparison to the males whose doctorates are recognized). The really sexist stuff is that they also often get Mrs. or Miss So-and-so. So, yeah, it still happens. A lot.
February 28th, 2021 at 8:26 PM ^
What's wrong with Mrs. or Miss?
All that does is differentiate marital status, if these female professors don't like what they're being referred to as then they should speak up and let people know how they want to be referred to as.
I always want to respect people and call them by their preference., all you gotta do is let me know.
February 28th, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^
a professorship is more prestigious than a doctorate
February 28th, 2021 at 9:52 PM ^
Not necessarily - a professorship simply means you are on faculty and teach something. A doctorate means you have gone through a doctoral degree program. One can be a professor without a doctorate sometimes - often with a masters or even just a bachelors.
February 28th, 2021 at 10:37 PM ^
One can be a professor without a doctorate sometimes - often with a masters or even just a bachelors.
Genuinely curious about this (not the professionally outraged pissing contest stuff), but would you know of an example of someone at a top 150 ranked school where someone without a Ph.D. is more than adjunct faculty?
Architecture, for one. Only 4/10 full professors in Taubman have PhDs, which is common since an MArch is the terminal degree unless you're in theory/history.
Thanks!
As someone else already mentioned, it depends heavily on department. It also depends on school quality. It also depends on the level of experience/age of the professor. It also depends on the requirements/expectations of that position (are they expected to do research and apply for grants, or mostly teach and maybe do something else such as fieldwork or work part time in industry).
There are so many other details and 1) the proliferation of PhDs in the past several decades and 2) the creation of various other positions within universities to distribute teaching duties has made it much more *uncommon*, yet it has happened and can still happen.
February 28th, 2021 at 11:19 PM ^
If you bother to complain that you're not getting called Dr., and you don't have a stethoscope around your neck, I really don't want to hear it.
The most pompous assholes I've encountered are relatively unaccomplished people with PhD's from third-rate colleges in the fluffier fields of study.
My UM/MIT engineering PhD friend with over 200 patents to his name asks to be called by his first name. Insisting on "Dr. Blah-blah" is for the insecure.
If you bother to complain that you're not getting called Dr., and you don't have a stethoscope around your neck, I really don't want to hear it.
So glad you wrote that.
At a previous company there was a guy who insisted on being called "doctor". I told him this EXACT same thing -- "I'll call you a doctor when I see a stethoscope around your neck".
What's even funnier is he wasn't even a Ph.D. He had an applied doctorate -- so just three more years of grad school; didn't even have to defend a dissertation.
I totally understand that and have felt exactly the same way. I tell my students they can call me Dr., Prof. or by my first name, I don't care. The issue here, though, is that we're talking about female professors who, while in a group of colleagues, see their male professors standing right next to them introduced as Dr., while they get Mrs. or Prof. Honestly, when I first heard them complaining about it, I had the same reaction as you, but there were so many of them who said this had happened to them that I stopped to think about it. And yeah, it's not the "I insist on being called Dr.", it's the fact that titles are not being used equally, and they feel it's just because of their gender. If that happened to me on a regular basis, I'd probably be a bit salty, too.
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February 28th, 2021 at 6:09 PM ^
I'm only playing devil's advocate, but there are plenty of men and women with doctorates that act like insufferable know-it-all's. Calling them out as being common folk is the best way to ruffle their feathers because of how important they think they are. It's a good troll job and not overtly sexist imho
February 28th, 2021 at 6:25 PM ^
Hey I’m there with you about those types of professors. I think there’s a very fine line here. I’m on the fence about the “some woman” comment leaning towards not sexist at all. But the context of the conversation includes him saying he’d “go at it” in a pool with her and that she was “bitching” at him. Those 2 items lead me to believe his “that woman” comment was sexist.
February 28th, 2021 at 7:59 PM ^
I get the point, but I feel like this is a prime example of the corner our culture has painted itself into. I don’t really see any blatant sexism, but others may. However, when sexism is blatant, I think most of us have no issue pointing it out. It seems like, in this case specifically, there is a detailed explanation that must accompany the story in order to get even some people to recognize it as sexism. I don’t think using loosely slang vernacular such as “some lady” and “bitching” even hints at sexism, personally. I am very liable to say both of those terms in the same sentence myself, and may very well be speaking about a guy (probably “some dude” or “some bro” or something of the like)
That said, I take no issue with making the personal assumption that Dakich is sexist, whether evidence is available or not. Seems perfectly fitting to me
February 28th, 2021 at 7:30 PM ^
It's not just about intent though. If you tried to be racist/bigoted towards me as a white male, there isn't much you can really do to be offensive because there isn't a history that's led to structural differences. So the same thing applied towards men or women isn't going to land in the same way.
Unless, of course, if you're a Jewish or Irish or Italian male. Plenty of racist opportunities there.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:23 PM ^
If you read into everything with this mindset, I don’t have any idea how you make it through an entire day.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:06 PM ^
Well stated Mgohillbilly, you can't say anything anymore without the thought police getting all bent.
If that's all he said then it's ridiculous to say it's sexist. If he said the other stuff about the pool and his wife, well that's just friggin' weird.
February 28th, 2021 at 6:51 PM ^
I mean, he did absolutely did talk about those latter things as well. He also apparently gave out the office hours of one of the professor's he was arguing with on his radio show and called him a douchebag and various other comments. Like, it's a couple of people arguing with you on twitter and you decide to drag them onto your ESPN-sponsored radio show to call them out is pretty unnecessary.
Dakich has been punished before for this type of behavior, including one time when he called a HS player a meth head and threatened to beat up the administrators of a HS because they fired their head coach. At some point you have to recognize he's got a pattern of being aggressive toward others and punish him accordingly.
February 28th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
No doubt he's obnoxious, but I suspect he says the things because he just likes being an asshole. I can sympathize the older I get. Plenty of people out there who like to hear other people get offended by things. It's what defines the entire shock jock genre
February 28th, 2021 at 7:51 PM ^
I mean, everyone's entitled to be an asshole in private, but if you are doing it on company time that's a different story. Nobody is paying Dan Dakich to call professors he argues with on Twitter douchebags and make weirdly sexual comments toward women he disagrees with. Also, they don't pay him to call HS kids meth heads. He's not a shock jock, or if that's his MO he's not particularly good at it.