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Michigan State Basketball: Dan Dakich makes matters worse with fans

By Connor Muldowney

Mar 3, 2015; Bloomington, IN, USA; ESPN announcers Dan Dakich and Mike Tirico announce the game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Indiana Hoosiers at Assembly Hall. Iowa defeats Indiana 77-63. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 3, 2015; Bloomington, IN, USA; ESPN announcers Dan Dakich and Mike Tirico announce the game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Indiana Hoosiers at Assembly Hall. Iowa defeats Indiana 77-63. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dan Dakich opened up about his tweets to Michigan State basketball fans during his radio show and claimed it was “much ado about nothing.”

How much deeper can you dig a hole that’s already basically to China? While what ESPN broadcaster Dan Dakich said may have been blown slightly out of proportion, when confronted by Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo, he seemed to walk away with his tail between his legs, delete his controversial tweets and ‘apologize’ to Michigan State fans, students.

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But, after thinking over his actions for a day, the outspoken broadcaster took to his radio show to state how he feels like he didn’t really do anything wrong and everything was overblown. It may have been overblown, but denying any responsibility is ludicrous.

According to 247Sports‘ Jeremy Warnemuende, Dakich took to the radio to speak about his previous run-ins with Michigan State fans.

"Thursday, Dakich opened his radio show on 93.5/1070 The Fan in Indianapolis addressing Izzo’s comments and the entire situation, calling it “much ado about nothing.”“I have never one time — and this is where the big fallacy is — I have never one time tweeted about the student body, tweeted about admission standards, tweeted about Michigan being a better school,” Dakich said. “I have tweeted at individuals telling them in Twitter kind of war/arguments, and I go for the gutshot. ‘Ah, you couldn’t get into Indiana, you couldn’t get into Michigan State, you couldn’t get into Michigan.’ That’s the gutshot when you have rivals.“I don’t even know if the people I tweeted were college age. I don’t look at people’s resumes, like, ‘How old are you, are you in college?'”…“Hey look, if I’m gonna spew it, I gotta take it,” Dakich said. “And you know what? Tom felt like he needed to protect his program. My problem is, I don’t think he understood who I was tweeting at. I wasn’t tweeting at a school or a student body, I was tweeting at individuals and, in my opinion, there are differences. Maybe not to anybody else.”…“It’s kinda cool, I’m sitting there with 14 or whatever the place holds thousand people chanting they hate you,” Dakich said. “And I’m sitting there and I’m looking at the faces of these kids the other day and I’m like, ‘Man, some of them are really mad.’ I’m thinking, ‘Man, Bill Clinton was right, there’s a lot of angry white people around this place, this country.’ And then others were laughing.”"

For a grown man, he certainly deflects blame like a child. Saying that he never called anyone ‘dumb’ for not getting into or going to Michigan is false. Just because he has since deleted the tweet doesn’t mean it never happened.

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Dakich is certainly doing himself no favors by poking the bear. Calling what happened much ado about nothing in terms of Izzo’s response is just looking for trouble. The head coach defended his students, fans against a ‘professional broadcaster’ calling them unintelligent.

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