Not-So-Funny Dakich Quotes

[DrDesert]

Once again our coach has the Blade eating right out of his hands and uses a few stunts to charm a few fans. Spending 5 minutes watching a student in class is well worth his time in the amount of PR he gets from people spreading the story. The fact is, we have only 2-3 seniors left in the program each year who may graduate and we forget about the other 15 players that left the program in the four previous years. I can't believe he continues to get away with the "young team" and "we'll win if we play hard" excuse year after year. If we "show up to play" we'll win........that seems to work every time when he wants to make sure he gets credit for our wins. If we don't win, it's only because the players don't play hard enough. It's like the faith healer saying that the person died because they just didn't have enough faith to be healed.

Selected excerpts from today's Toledo Blade.......


BOWLING GREEN - Dan Dakich knew his Bowling Green State University basketball team was destined for growing pains. Expecting them doesn't make experiencing them any less stressful.

"A coach knows his team, and a coach knows what level his team is at, and what level his team has to be at," Dakich said. "Anything below that level with our team doesn't get it done. (more gobbledy goop.....if you can't say anything intelligent, confuse the fans)

"Our particular team has to be a very hard-playing, concentrating group. When it plays anything other than that it gets beat."

Dakich hasn't been pleased with his team's focus at various times this season. It showed right away when after the Falcons' season-opening loss to Western Carolina, Dakich brought his team back on the court and conducted a midnight practice. (A macho thing to do....not smart....but macho)

"Last year's team dug in when things weren't going its way," Dakich said. "This year's team seems to hang its head, and that's awful." (I heard him say on the radio last year that Reimold was the only player we had who practiced like a champion)

Dakich is hoping that experiencing the situation will help them learn, but he knows he can't simulate it in team meetings, in the film room or at practice, even midnight ones.

The practices before the Western Michigan game lacked spirit, a sign the coach didn't appreciate.

"I am not totally convinced you practice like you play, but you play as your mentality is in practice a lot of the time," Dakich said. "[Last week] I was constantly trying to get guys to do things all year that they had been doing without any prodding. It was addressed by us constantly, to the point of screaming. (Screaming is a proven adult teaching strategy) When you have a somewhat immature team, that happens. You don't accept it."

"You learn lessons as you go along in a basketball season and hopefully this is a lesson that our players have learned," Dakich said. "We have a very simple motto. If you're not ready to play then you get beat."

[orangeandbrown]

On the praising of past teams, this is something he picked up from his mentor. Coach Knight is famous for praising past teams to current teams....which is always shocking to the past teams, who were always told they didn't stack up to some previous team.

[Tricky_Falcon]

Yeah those "select" quotes make him look like a horrible coach

[Flipper]

What do you expect him to say..."we're getting beaten because I suck and nobody wants to stay here and play for me"? That would be productive...

I think people put waaay too much emphasis on the stuff coaches say to the media anyway. 95% of it is interchangeable from year to year and Dakich is no exception. It's the same old boring cliches about playing hard,showing up, taking care of the basketball, playing smart and giving a full 60 minutes of effort.

I'd be far more interested in hearing what he tells Krebs when he asks him how things are going, but the media isn't going to be sitting in on that conversation and neither am I.

[factman]

Yeah....the things coaches say to the media and public are almost as boring and tiring as all of the negative posts from a certain number of posters on this board!

[San Diego Falcon]

Dakich hasn't been pleased with his team's focus at various times this season. It showed right away when after the Falcons' season-opening loss to Western Carolina, Dakich brought his team back on the court and conducted a midnight practice. (A macho thing to do....not smart....but macho)

I'm no Dakich lover, but why do say it wasn't smart to have that midnight practice? They beat VA Tech right after that. It seems to have worked.

[JWEIII]

I'm no Dakich lover, but why do say it wasn't smart to have that midnight practice? They beat VA Tech right after that. It seems to have worked.

Stop confusing the issue with facts...

[hammb]

I'm no Dakich lover, but why do say it wasn't smart to have that midnight practice? They beat VA Tech right after that. It seems to have worked.

Stop confusing the issue with facts...

Facts are meaningless. They can be used to prove anything. -- Homer Jay Simpson

[Jacobs4Heisman]

Once again our coach has the Blade eating right out of his hands and uses a few stunts to charm a few fans. Spending 5 minutes watching a student in class is well worth his time in the amount of PR he gets from people spreading the story.

Yep -- I'm sure that's exactly why he did it. It couldn't have anything to do with him actually caring about his student-athletes



As far as Dakich goes, I like him as a guy and I like his approach, but I'm not sure it's going to work anymore. I sure hope he can turn the program back around, but I wouldn't be overly shocked or upset if his contract was not renewed.


And what coach in the country wouldn't tell his team that they'll get beat if they're not ready to play? That applies to about 95% of the teams in the country every night they step on the floor in conference.

[DrDesert]

Dakich hasn't been pleased with his team's focus at various times this season. It showed right away when after the Falcons' season-opening loss to Western Carolina, Dakich brought his team back on the court and conducted a midnight practice. (A macho thing to do....not smart....but macho)

I'm no Dakich lover, but why do say it wasn't smart to have that midnight practice? They beat VA Tech right after that. It seems to have worked.

You can't be productive practicing at midnight the night after a game, the night before a game, or on any given night. It also tends to contradict the coach's emphasis on academics. That's why it's not smart.

[orangeandbrown]

Well, they were on the road, first of all. Second, the way I heard Coach describe it is that we needed to work on something, it would either be that night or the next day, we were already there and dressed, and it meant that we didn't have to practice at all the next day (ie, no getting dressed, and dragging yourself all the way over to the arena, etc). So, all our players had time the next day to get their homework done.