Welcome to the Worldwide Leader, Dan Dakich....

A cottage industry here in the Falcon Nation is tracking our former Coaches.  We recently looked at Gregg Brandon landing a plum assignment coach TEs in the UFL.  We even explained what the UFL is.

Now, we have news from Dan Dakich.  For those who need a summary, after the interim deal at IU did not end well, DD did not return to coaching.  He got a job with a radio show in Indy during the afternoon....which was parlayed into work on the Big Ten Network which will be parlayed into time on ESPN doing game and studio work in the next season.

Dan is well suited for this.  I remember one time when Time Warner Cable did a tape delay Falcon football game, Dakich did the color and he was actually pretty good.  He was always plenty verbal, and has an excellent sense of humor.  The article linked above points out that you can get back into coaching from ESPN if you want (Steve Lavin, we're looking at you), but maybe he doesn't want that anymore.

I know that we had to make a change, but I always liked Dan and appreciated his efforts as our coach, and I am happy to see him succeeding in broadcasting.

And he was right about Armon Bassett.  I'm not sure any other interim coach in the US would have done that.