The tenure of Dan Dakich with 107.5 The Fan has ended.
On Thursday, the sports talk personality revealed he had completed his final program for Radio One, the Indianapolis station’s parent company.
“Given the popularity of my Outkick show, Don’t @ Me, and the hectic holiday season, this is the right time to focus on one show and make it the best it can be,” he wrote on Twitter. “I cannot thank all the listeners enough for 14 years of incredible entertainment and controversy.”
Dakich, who played at Indiana under Bob Knight from 1981 to 1985 and served as an assistant coach and interim coach for the Hoosiers, will continue to present “Don’t @ Me” daily on Outkick.
It is yet unknown why Dakich’s 14-year tenure at the station came to an end. The operations manager of The Fan, David Wood, emailed staff members on Thursday, “Today was Dan Dakich’s last day at Radio One. We wish him the best of luck in his future undertakings.”
Dakich has an extensive past of controversy. In 2019, he was suspended by then-The Fan owner Emmis, who eventually sold all its Indianapolis stations to Urban One, for failing to adhere to journalistic norms in 2018. In March 2020, he insulted the town of Scottsburg and its high school for five minutes after the firing of its basketball coach, calling a player a “meth-head” and stating the town was full of “meth and AIDS and needles.”
Dan Dakich announced his departure from The Fan 107.5, ending his fourteen-year tenure.
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Last year, Dakich severed ways with ESPN following a high-profile Twitter dispute with Dr. Johanna Mellis, in which he questioned the remuneration of college professors and athletes. Mellis accused him of sexualizing her invitation to a swimming competition.
“I’m not going to do games for ESPN, and that was my decision as well as theirs,” he remarked following his separation from the outlet in September 2021. I had to do a lot of things for money, and that’s OK, but there’s a huge world in which I want to have an impact.
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