Dan Dakich on the call tonight

[CuseFaninVT]

Beth is great, but Dakich's voice I find annoying as hell. I wish the technical difficulties remained the entire game and they kept the studio guys doing the pbp from the drone view.

They screwed up a couple calls, but it was entertaining.

 

[tbonezone]

did mowens have to tie his shoes also ? dude is clueless.

 

[SU94]

Get ready for plenty of Jim Boeheim is the godfather talk. I don't mind Dakich that much but he isn't my favorite. He doesn't talk about the game enough. He tells long stories and I would prefer quick ones and then back to discussing the game.

A new one ... doesn't like color guy, prefers color commentators armed with short stories. Maybe Judy Blume will be on the game Saturday.

 

[SoBeCuse]

I felt he could’ve been much more critical of us. He probably bit his tongue a LOT since he likes Boeheim. I mean how many terrible shots and forced shots did we take? Not one “that’s a terrible shot” which most color guys would’ve said. Even Bilas. There was nothing to critique really and breakdown. We were all ISO. So he made a couple of jabs at Chukwu/Moyer/Dolezaj about their defense. They were getting abused most of the game!

 

[Franz69]

Dole-a-gee.

 

[dasher]

I felt he could’ve been much more critical of us. He probably bit his tongue a LOT since he likes Boeheim. I mean how many terrible shots and forced shots did we take? Not one “that’s a terrible shot” which most color guys would’ve said. Even Bilas. There was nothing to critique really and breakdown. We were all ISO. So he made a couple of jabs at Chukwu/Moyer/Dolezaj about their defense. They were getting abused most of the game!

I felt just the opposite. Yeah, a lot of bad stuff. But we hung in there and he hardly talked about us all night. With anything we want to complain about, we got it to 74 74 with a good team. We must have done something right.

 

[SoBeCuse]

I do not believe I will ever forget Dan Dakich's call of the alleged "neutral" site game as a color commentator for the SU-Florida game a few years ago in Tampa, Florida.

As we all knew, Andy Rautins really came of age as a senior with a blend of court awareness and shooting skill that we would be greatly appreciative of if he were on our current roster today. Back then, Andy seemed to grasp his mantle and grow into the shoes of his mentoring father Leo Rautins who I am sure could probably recite the play by play from his dad's version of the triple overtime win of Syracuse over Villanova in the last year before the automatic qualifier exemption for the Big East tournament victor Syracuse Orangemen. That name still sounds great doesn't it?

Anyway, it seemed that during this early season matchup, old Dan Dakich must have really thought he did his homework, when on several occasions he believed he put his perfect perspective on Andy whenever Andy might receive the ball or actually do something with it. I believed his quips included "Just get up on him and he can't hurt you", and "He's a one trick pony" or "He's just a spot up shooter". However the best and infamous quote with I may remember the best was when Dan argued loudly to his cohort "Get up in his face!, You've done your job, he put it on the floor, he aint gonna hurt you anymore." at least twice right before Andy dribbled around the defense and (bang, as they say in the NBA) Andy snipered his shot in twice and made effective passes on other plays afterward as well. You could literally hear the mic drop and the hard swallow of Mr. Dakich as he was at a loss for words for how much more talented Andy Rautins was as a player than the shallow overview preseason scouting report that Mr. Dakich was mistakenly led to previously believe. The Orangemen led in part by Andy Rautins led us to a sweet victory over the talented and more highly regarded Gators in a sweet victory that day, much to the surprise of Mr. Dakich.

Whenever I hear his voice, I remember his color commentary of Andy Rautins and try to listen and observe if he is willing to make such a colossal, predetermined, bad judgment call on our players again, as I surely look for the opportunity for another fond color commentary gaffe from him! Watching our players develop and grow from their basketball experiences instead of pigeon holing them permanently for mistakes is something I take pleasure in despite the growing pains: however, to have this experience nationally memorialized by Mr. Dakich made the whole experience of pain to pleasure absolutely priceless. Of course I hope he does it again for us tonight!

2009 in St. Pete. You’re thinking Of Jimmy Dykes. He’s terrible. Vitale did one of our Florida games also. Dakich was interim HC at IU in 2008 (the Florida game in KC I think). Then he worked for the B10 Network for a year or two before joining ESPN.

EDIT: Dykes also was the color guy @ Arkansas in another BE-SEC Challenge game with MCW. It was so audibly obvious that he was mad at his Hogs for not getting up on Southerland and letting him step into shots. Southerland was however a one-trick pony.

 

[tbonezone]

Maybe Judy Blume will be on the game Saturday.

well armistead maupin is an NC homer.

 

[texacuse]

2009 in St. Pete. You’re thinking Of Jimmy Dykes. He’s terrible. Vitale did one of our Florida games also. Dakich was interim HC at IU in 2008 (the Florida game in KC I think). Then he worked for the B10 Network for a year or two before joining ESPN.

EDIT: Dykes also was the color guy @ Arkansas in another BE-SEC Challenge game with MCW. It was so audibly obvious that he was mad at his Hogs for not getting up on Southerland and letting him step into shots. Southerland was however a one-trick pony.

Thank you savor the correction. I had believed it was Dan Dakich by trying to remember the voices in that game without looking it up but now that you mention it, I can hear their different voice inflections. I really appreciate bringing it to my attention.

It still tickles me to remember, “You’ve done your job, he put it on the floor, he ain’t gonna hurt you anymore” just before Andy caused him to clam up and look for scapegoat answers because Mr. Dykes was made out to be so glaringly biased and mistaken during this game. As I recall, he was really an SEC homer at heart and we were like the invaders from the north during both the Florida and (excellent reference) Arkansas game you mentioned.

 

[SoBeCuse]

Thank you savor the correction. I had believed it was Dan Dakich by trying to remember the voices in that game without looking it up but now that you mention it, I can hear their different voice inflections. I really appreciate bringing it to my attention.

It still tickles me to remember, “You’ve done your job, he put it on the floor, he ain’t gonna hurt you anymore” just before Andy caused him to clam up and look for scapegoat answers because Mr. Dykes was made out to be so glaringly biased and mistaken during this game. As I recall, he was really an SEC homer at heart and we were like the invaders from the north during both the Florida and (excellent reference) Arkansas game you mentioned.

Ha. No problem. I only remember it really because of Dykes being a SEC homer and obviously cheering for the opposition. Not that Dakich is great but I generally don’t mind him.

 

[weedsportwarriors]

I am surprised Dakich could even talk tonight, as much as he was drooling all over how great the Heels were you would think his lips were attached to their @$$es.

 

[Ghost]

Yeah, I generally don’t mind him either. The homers should all embrace him since he has a hard-on for JB. Anything is better than the ACC Ntwk garbage. He gets a little too radio show shtick-like at times as mentioned above but the guy knows the game.

Yeah, I like him well enough - he laughs at his own stupid commentary at times and points it out. Most of them pretend like they never made stupid statements in the first place. That amuses me.