A take. I thought the piling on against the kid was garbage, but don’t have an initial take on Dakich’s role. (Story title makes it sound as if ‘misogynistic comments’ is a foregone conclusion. . .)
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Wow. Some weird quotes from his radio show there. I didn’t know what was behind him leaving Twitter.
We’ll see how this plays out.
I think his comments about going at it in the pool and having to get divorced after is pretty cut and dry misogyny and/or sexual harassment
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I only accidentally listened to Dakich on ESPNU radio while driving the other day when he ranted about it for 10+ minutes (I changed the channel at that point). Sounded like somebody asked him if they were going to go at it in a pool this year (I assume that was referencing a tournament bracket) and he said he doesn’t even do that with his wife (big ha ha from him). Then he was complaining about the professor who talks about how everybody else profits off student athletes pointing out that he teaches for like 3 hours a week and has 1 hour of office hours per week and that he was also profiting off student athletes.
Sounded like a bunch of stupid stuff mostly spawning from Dakich making the sexual going at it in a pool joke and then tangentially also whining about how much a professor gets paid to do almost nothing.
I don’t mind Dakich on basketball broadcasts. I also don’t have twitter although he makes it sound like he is always getting in a fight there.
This is where I am at as well. He can be very insightful on games when he sticks to strategy and observing what happens in games. But all the other stuff that goes with it is just over the top and unnecessary Part of him hopping off Twitter could be per the request of his employer, but ESPN isn’t innocent at they want their analysts to be more “personality” and less analyst. .I do hope he can recover/survive this as I think he can bring some value to a broadcast and CBB as a whole and hopefully he can learn that he needs to tone it down a bit.
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You can tolerate him if you drink every time he says, “it’s not that hard…”
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“I’m tellin’ ya…”
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One first place vote for Michigan
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I appreciate the first place vote, but I don’t understand having OSU above Illinois, and definitely don’t understand Wisconsin 20th.
Boy there really is a dropoff after the top 3. Iowa #4 in the country? OSU still top 5?
I’ve watched a handful of Wisconsin games this year and they are absolutely disgusting to watch. Terrible basketball.
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Seems like the hardest “top 25” spot to rank is the fourth spot. It’s a carousel. Up down round and round. Win, lose, close games against unranked teams, new one every week …
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Yeah… you look at the 4-5-6 Big Ten teams and assume there has to be someone to pass them… then you look further down the list. 
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Just flipped on sportscenter to see the highlights of Butler over Villanova. They lost because they went an astounding 2-27 from three!!! Feels like they could hit more than that blindfolded! Yuck
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Not totally sure what thread to put this in, but here’s some Columbia fans talking about Mike Smith:
https://www.voy.com/152805/195601.html
I didn’t realize Faulds originally enrolled at Columbia.
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I don’t know that there exist Columbia basketball fans. 
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You have to go to the “Ivy League Sports Board” (not even basketball, just “Sports”) with its c. 1996 graphics to find them, but they do exist!
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Happy March Madness everyone!
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With Maryland’s win over MSU, their NET improved to 29 which now gives Michigan an 8-1 record against Q1 opponents. This is tied for the most victories with Illinois, but in four fewer games.
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His article is up on TheAthletic. He said he struggled with those but felt the road win vaulted OSU over Illinois.