Controversial sports talk radio host Dan Dakich out at Indianapolis station

Dan Dakich’s time with 107.5 The Fan is finished.

On Thursday, the sports activities discuss determine introduced he had achieved his final present for Radio One, the mother or father firm of the Indianapolis station.

“Given the success of my present, Don’t @ Me on Outkick and the busy vacation season, that is the right time to give attention to one present and to make it the very best I can attainable make it,” he wrote in a press release on Twitter. “I can’t thank all of the listeners sufficient for 14 years of unbelievable enjoyable and controversy.”

Dakich, a former participant underneath Bob Knight at Indiana from 1981-85 in addition to an assistant coach and interim coach of the Hoosiers, will nonetheless host “Don’t @ Me,” every day on Outkick.

What precipitated Dakich’s 14-year run on the station to finish shouldn't be but recognized. The Fan’s operations supervisor David Wooden emailed staffers on Thursday that, “Right now was Dan Dakich’s final day with Radio One. We want him properly of their future endeavors.”

Dakich has an extended historical past of controversy. In 2019, he earned a suspension from then-The Fan proprietor Emmis — which later bought all its Indianapolis stations to City One — for a 2018 “failure on Dan’s half to stick to the journalistic ideas.” In March 2020, he went on a five-minute tirade insulting the city of Scottsburg and its highschool after the firing of its basketball coach, referring to a participant as a “meth-head” and claiming the city was filled with “meth and AIDS and needles.”

Dan Dakich introduced he'll not be on The Fan 107.5, ending his 14-year run.

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Final yr, Dakich parted methods with ESPN after he obtained into a high-profile Twitter spat with Dr. Johanna Mellis after he questioned school professors over athlete compensation. Mellis accused him of taking her invite to a swimming race in a sexual course.

“I’m not going to do video games at ESPN and that was as a lot my alternative as their alternative,” he stated after the September 2021 separation with the outlet. “I obtained to do a ton of stuff due to the cash and that’s positive, however there’s a complete world on the market that I wish to have affect in.”