Indiana Falls, Dakich Needs To Go

The No. 17 Indiana Hoosiers fell to Penn State 68-64 in overtime on Sunday, to drop them to third in the Big Ten and push them further a great seed in the NCAA tournament. The Hoosiers, now 25-6, are just 3-2 since Dan Dakich took over as the head coach. In his tenure so far, the Hoosier barely slipped by Northwestern, almost tanked one against Ohio State, were destroyed by Michigan State and lost to a hapless Penn State squad missing its best two players.

It’s obvious at this point that Dakich is no longer fit to be the head coach at Indiana University, after all, my alma mater has standards. We simply hold our coaches to much higher standards than the rest of the country. We expect them to perform on a higher plane and do it the right way. Dakich has not done that. Say what you want about Kelvin Sampson, he never lost to Penn State.

After the drubbing the Hoosiers suffered at the hands of Michigan State, we should have seen this coming. One offense should have been enough but we let him continue to tarnish our once proud program and now look where we are. Truthfully, we should have known this was coming. When you look at his track record, this could have been the only outcome. The man simply can’t help himself. I mean for God’s sake, he was only 156-140 in his 10 seasons at Bowling Green. He is not the type of coach we want at IU. We compromised our principles for what looked attractive at the time: A former player, with a clean past. We’re better than that at Indiana University and we should have done better.

Now it’s time to end this dark period and move on. It’s time to search for someone new to guide this program. There are plenty of good options out there, I just hope we make the right choice. I hear there’s a guy who the Spurs just hired as an adviser who could be looking for a more substantial job.

Just a thought.