Dan Dakich calls out almost the entire top echelon of college coaching
Wonders where the sport's HOF coaches are tonight, why they aren't on TV and radio screaming in anger about cheating; says they are lying low until they see if they are implicated. Includes Izzo in the mix. Scathing:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-dakich-show-podcast/id12179…
(It's the very top most recent cast.)
Writer Jeff Goodman, calling in, says many HCs are calling him, worried. Bluntly says the NCAA targets small schools for infractions because big schools bring the org huge revenue.
Was skeptical, but this thing really has legs.
EDIT: Dakich is emphatic that he's not saying that all coaches are dirty. Thought I'd throw that in because that does seem to be the purport of his opening comments (as other callers note). Also says Beilein is very clean.
September 28th, 2017 at 8:34 PM ^
Coaches fraternity; they don't rat on each other. Beilein is the cleanest guy in the game, and almost certainly lost players to coaches he knows are cheating...yet he doesn't rat on anyone either. No one wants to be a rat. Notice Dakich never ratted on other coaches when he was coaching. Now he's a talking mouth talking tough. Spare me.
September 28th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
And the treatment he got was worse than any show-cause could ever be.
It's absolute and utter career suicide. You're not just out of coaching forever, you're out of the sport forever. No media work, no consulting, no nothing. Nobody's going to recognize you on the street or answer the phone when you call.
September 29th, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
September 29th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
He worked the graveyard shift at an airplane parts manufacturer for a while; now he's teaching GED classes at a federal prison. Says he has no regrets, but he'd rather be coaching.
September 28th, 2017 at 8:51 PM ^
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September 28th, 2017 at 11:32 PM ^
otherwise wed be having the sleepless nights that ALOT of other basketball fans are having now..IF this is just the tip of the iceberg the nex 6-9 months should be fascinating..I predict at least 1 maybe 2 other BIG names will go down maybe more
September 28th, 2017 at 10:30 PM ^
September 28th, 2017 at 11:00 PM ^
I would love nothing more than to watch Izzo go down.
September 28th, 2017 at 11:56 PM ^
September 29th, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^
Are we still doing phrasing?
September 28th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
September 28th, 2017 at 11:54 PM ^
September 28th, 2017 at 11:29 PM ^
we will see a number of retirements in college basketball this year...ALOT ..Get out while the going is good...(or before your indicted and fired)
September 29th, 2017 at 8:47 AM ^
It won't matter... If the FBI wants you for bribary, or some other crime, your current employment status is irrelevent. If you want that soft, cushy retirement, maybe start singing like a canary. Unless you're already at the top. Right, Mr. Pitino?
September 28th, 2017 at 11:49 PM ^
September 29th, 2017 at 1:47 AM ^
but I can't see Calipari, Coach K or Izzo or Kansas getting taken down for this. Those schools are backbone of the sport. Money will change hands at the highest level and it will fade away quietly. The biggest fish always get away.
The simple solution to this is remove the one and done rule. Make them stay 3 years and the quick turn around goes away. I heard Dakitch talking about earlier in the week that these kids are only on campus for seven months and then the finance men get the return on their investment when the kids get drafted.
The coaches fought for the 1-and done because they get the kickbacks and compete for championships. The argumernt against one-and-sone is so lame. Makes the kids stay in school for three years and much of this goes away and the kids might actually LEARN something as opposed to faking school for a semester and a half.
It's so disappointing that the sports we love are so corrupt. Once TV took control it was all about the money.
September 29th, 2017 at 5:19 AM ^
With the SEC and FBI involved your first paragraph is nonsense. The Feds are after the head, not cash and a couple little fish. This isnt an NCAA investigation.
September 29th, 2017 at 6:45 AM ^
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September 29th, 2017 at 7:38 AM ^
Sounds interesting. Any way to read some kind of transcript of this?
Can't listen to podcasts or watch videos at work.
September 29th, 2017 at 7:45 AM ^
Dakick goin Dakich
September 29th, 2017 at 8:50 AM ^
I listened on my way in to work this morning. Dan Dakich is an angry man!! I liked the rant, though...
September 29th, 2017 at 8:54 AM ^
To go on this type of rant, Dakich could have been saying this for years. It's not like he didn't or doesn't know what happens.
September 29th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
I find it ironic that Rick Pitino had a cameo in the movie Blue Chips.
September 29th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
Ironic or prescient?
September 29th, 2017 at 4:42 PM ^
It wasn't even planned, they just told him there were some high school basketball players there and the guy just showed up with a bag full of cash.
September 29th, 2017 at 11:30 AM ^
Sounds like it needs to "Drain The Swamp"
September 29th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
September 29th, 2017 at 5:36 PM ^
They say that money
Can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half pound of cocaine
And a 16-year-old girl
And a great big long limousine
On a hot September night
Now that may not be love
But it is all right