Dakich

[Crimson_Force]

I didn't mention Miller. Buying influence is like schmooze money when businesses wine and dine their clients, only in the case of pre-college or college athletes, it is against the rules. So they make sure all of the funneling occurs before a school ever gets involved and that way it appears clean.

In this case, whether it happened or not depends on who was paid and how much. A small stipend to coach a team and supply a few tournament fees is probably fine, but if it goes beyond that it is essentially stamping a shoe brand on a kid then helping to steer him to an appropriate school of good standing with the brand.

Let me reinforce that I am only speaking on a hypothetical. I do not know any details on if any excessive payments were made. I hope nothing like that happened.

Do you know how much it costs to run an AAU program? Especially one started from scratch.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Do you know how much it costs to run an AAU program? Especially one started from scratch.

I coached AAU for four years and it ain't cheap. Families contributed a ton but we were never the elite level that attracted the serious sponsorship money. Airfare, uniforms, meals, hotels and entry fees cost the same whether you are elite or mainstream. $100k ain't dick.

 

[birdforbogey]

Do you know how much it costs to run an AAU program? Especially one started from scratch.

Too much.

 

[meridian]

My understanding was the motivation of the season on the brink was 84-85. Came in ranked #1 and absolutely melted down. I believe that was the chair throw season. Knight couldn't deal with another train wreck like the year prior with captain Dakich.

Dakich has been involved in pretty much every mess that we've gotten into in the past 35 years.

He's a disruptive cancer. Always has been and always will be.

We'd have been better off if Dakich would have transferred instead of Roway. One we lost the much better player and two we wouldn't of had a 35 year lying, cancer that needs to be cut out.

I am neither a fan of Dakich nor an antagonist. Just dropped by to see what this board, which I used to live in a long time ago, is talking about these days. Anyway, do I understand correctly that Dakich is the reason why IU has become mediocre? Do I understand correctly? And he is not even a coach but just a TV guy? If he can be that influential, he must be really something! He should be hired as a full-time coach!

 

[TommyCracker]

I am neither a fan of Dakich nor an antagonist. Just dropped by to see what this board, which I used to live in a long time ago, is talking about these days. Anyway, do I understand correctly that Dakich is the reason why IU has become mediocre? Do I understand correctly? And he is not even a coach but just a TV guy? If he can be that influential, he must be really something! He should be hired as a full-time coach!

No.

He takes a lot of pot shots at the program. A lot. Likes to paint himself as this holier than thou gardian of Indiana's soul that we lost the day he left the program (in his non self aware world).

I'm pointing out that it's interesting that he takes that stance when he's been involved with pretty much every major disruptive event that the program has gone through as a player, an assistant coach, then again as an assistant coach, then as an interim coach and tried like hell to get us to hire Alford....which would have crippled the program for the next decade or so.

He can't help it. He's just a disruptive person.

All of this from a likely low three star recruit who averaged less than 4 points a game.

He rips and s#$ts all over the program when he actually owes his entire career to the program.

I'm just saying it's time to start s$#tting on him back. Call out his BS, attack his character and maybe cut him out for good. Hell it's what he wants.

 

[MG80]

Dakich is just another example in this country that being an asshole is the new normal. Personally, I’m sick of mindless tweets, overrated and self-centered players, coaches, radio show hosts and many others too numerous to mention that are so incredibly full of themselves.

 

[SIhoosier26]

Dakich is just another example in this country that being an asshole is the new normal. Personally, I’m sick of mindless tweets, overrated and self-centered players, coaches, radio show hosts and many others too numerous to mention that are so incredibly full of themselves.

Perfect definition of Dakich, an absolute trash human being.

 

[Hoosier in SC]

That's because IU is starting to do well right now. Everytime things start going right he has to try and bring IU down a peg. It's absolutely ridiculous, especially when you consider the context of the statement.

One of IU's own passes away at just 48 years old and what does Dakich do? Uses it to take a pot shot at a kid that literally did nothing wrong. Again, having a shoe company sponsor an AAU team is nothing new and is completely legal. Also, there is nothing to prove that it sent him to IU, I don't know what the hell Dan's talking about.

Either way he's an absolute joke of an alum, an embarrassment to IU as a program, and to fans everywhere. If I was Archie I would completely shut him out of interviews (probably already has) and keep him out of the program as much as possible.

Guess I missed something along the recruiting of Romeo. The issue appears to be that Adidas sponsored Romeo's father's AAU team for $100K & Dakich is attributing that to Romeo being paid $100K to come to IU, correct? And this is legal? If true, may be legal, but definitely not purely clean.

 

[SIhoosier26]

Guess I missed something along the recruiting of Romeo. The issue appears to be that Adidas sponsored Romeo's father's AAU team for $100K & Dakich is attributing that to Romeo being paid $100K to come to IU, correct? And this is legal? If true, may be legal, but definitely not purely clean.

Read what you just said again and that should explain just how dumb that comment is.

Adidas sponsoring Romeo's AAU team is completely legal and PURELY clean. There is no proof it had anything to do with him going to IU, IU wasn't even the only Adidas school on his list.

For anyone to make comments questioning the "morals" of this situation would take a bunch of unproven theories and conjecture. IU did nothing wrong and neither did Romeo's family.