Awful Announcing Podcast

Our latest podcast features a man who has kept us pretty busy in the new year - ESPN college basketball analyst Dan Dakich. His outspoken analysis and straight-shooting style has led to dustups with everyone from Boston radio hosts to Big Ten coaches to midwestern mayors. In addition to his work at ESPN, Dan hosts a weekday radio show in Indianapolis where he talks about sports and society. In this podcast we talk with Dan about a wide-ranging number of topics that include...- HIs relationship with college basketball fans, especially on Twitter.- How he uses Twitter and how he deals with criticism.- His advocacy against chewing tobacco and how comfortable he is talking about societal issues on his radio show.- Battling depression while head coach at Bowling Green, how he's been committed to having fun as a broadcaster, and why he'd never go back to coaching.- The stress that coaches are under daily and how Urban Meyer taking a year off from coaching may have helped him most.- Why his mission in a game broadc