For once, it’s hard to hear Dan Dakich. ESPN’s brash, no-holds-barred college basketball analyst — and noted Twitter flame-thrower — is driving from Atlanta to Auburn, Ala., where he was to call an Auburn-Kentucky game Wednesday night, and his cell-phone is breaking in and out.
But what you can make out from the other end of the line, in typical Dakich fashion, is wildly entertaining.
Dakich has no shortage of critics, mostly among fans — and in large part, among Michigan State fans, who famously serenaded him with “We Hate Dakich” chants at Breslin Center last February, and have been on his case again this February, for his off-the-cuff remark that Miles Bridges, yes that Miles Bridges, “has no game.