=>Northern Chicagolands not spared either by Dakich in rant against “punks” with rich daddies…
how many ways different ways can Dan dress up anti-Semitic tropes in this rant
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=>Did not read it that way.
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I get why you posted it, no fault directed at you. But the subtext is LOUD while ignoring the $$$$$ that has propped up the school from out of state
@mollautt If you follow Dakich you would know that’s exactly what he meant.
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=>I do follow Dakich on Twitter. I do not read every tweet. I used to listen to his radio show here and there. I never seen/heard anything antisemitic. What he is posting here takes a very paranoid reading between the lines to get to antisemiticism.
His schick now is blow hard.
People see what they want to see I guess.
I see it as a rant against what he perceived as spoiled, entitled rich kids who pissed him off by booing a basketball player. I got that from what he actually said.
Putting that piece aside, the reality is that while there are tools who attend IU from the Chicago/New York suburbs (let’s be honest it’s a Miami thing too) it would not be a world class institution without out-of-state students and cash. There are only so many students from Carmel you can draw.
=>Dakich issue is with the people (“cowards”) booing.
And the coolest one (Suder) didn’t go to IU.
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=>Who thinks “Short, black hair big fing mouth w punchable face” and daddies who do “coke” is a Jewish stereotype???
IU, Mich State, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota are pretty much open doors on acceptance level basis. Ohio State is slightly more selective.
Academically, IU’s crown jewel is Kelly Biz-school, and Miami’s Farmer School of Business is better than that.
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I thought this thread title was a response to @yanksalex 
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I get that there are things people aren’t aware of. But just a few things that stand out, starting with targeting areas with higher concentration of jews who have historically attended IU, layering in $$ into the conversation, while spitting all over a mic with an outkick flag are all enough to set off alarms and call it out. It’s not new, just run of the mill stuff from a verified piece of shit talking head.
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=>I think the issue here is that the argument requires a lot of very specific assumptions that simply aren’t in Dakich’s rant.
Let’s look at what he actually said. His targets were:
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“Northern Chicago suburb coke head IU students”
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“Northeast (NY/NJ/Long Island) douchebag punks”
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“short… collar up… red nose… sniffles…”
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“short, black hair… big mouth… punchable face”
That’s not an antisemitic trope — that’s basically a barstool description of every loud rich kid from the suburbs who shows up at a Big Ten game acting like they own the place. If you’ve ever been in Bloomington on a game weekend, you’ve met this exact guy about 400 times.
The logic required to get to antisemitism goes something like this:
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Chicago/NY suburbs have Jewish populations
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Dakich mentioned those regions
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Dakich mentioned rich kids
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Therefore this is antisemitic coding
But by that standard, any criticism of out-of-state rich kids from the Northeast becomes antisemitic, which obviously doesn’t hold up. Those regions also produce Italians, Irish, WASPs, finance bros, hedge-fund interns, and the entire cast of Wolf of Wall Street. None of those are Jewish stereotypes either — they’re just rich-kid stereotypes.
And the descriptions he used — coke, popped collars, loudmouths — are basically the generic caricature of entitled prep-school bros that’s existed in college sports trash talk forever. If anything, it’s the same stereotype people have been making fun of in movies about East Coast prep schools since the 80s.
The other problem with the antisemitism claim is that it ignores the obvious context: Dakich is mad about fans booing a player and is doing his usual over-the-top sports radio routine. It’s classic Dakich blowhard stuff — exaggerated, dumb, and loud — but that’s a very different thing from coded ethnic messaging.
In other words, the rant reads like sports-radio caveman yelling about spoiled rich kids, not like someone secretly workshopping a 1930s propaganda poster.
We can absolutely criticize Dakich for being a blowhard (I think everyone in this thread agrees on that), but turning a generic “entitled Northeast rich kid” rant into antisemitism requires connecting dots that Dakich never actually drew.
Sometimes a dumb sports rant is just a dumb sports rant.
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Of course not; you aren’t Jewish.
Look..I said there was tropes and you went woah..and then doubled down.
you’re approaching this through perception while many approach this through lived experience and that’s fine.
=>That’s a strange standard to introduce into the discussion.
If the rule is that only members of a group are allowed to evaluate whether something is antisemitic, then we’ve basically eliminated the possibility of having a rational conversation about it. By that logic:
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Non-Jews couldn’t call out antisemitism when it actually happens
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Non-Jews also couldn’t disagree when something is labeled antisemitic without evidence
That doesn’t really work.
The more useful approach is the boring one: look at what was actually said and whether it matches known antisemitic tropes. Dakich ranted about loud, entitled out-of-state rich kids from Chicago and the NY/NJ/Long Island area booing a player. That stereotype has existed in college sports forever and usually describes popped-collar prep-school bros whose dads work in finance/lawyers and think the rules don’t apply to them.
Nothing in the rant references Jews, Judaism, religion, ethnicity, or any of the actual antisemitic tropes people normally point to. To get there you have to first assume “Chicago suburbs + New York + money = Jewish,” which ironically says more about the assumption than about Dakich.
And to be clear, if Dakich had actually used recognizable antisemitic language, I’d have no issue calling it out. But labeling something antisemitic because it criticizes rich kids from the Northeast stretches the concept so far that it stops meaning anything.
Dakich being a loud sports-radio blowhard? Totally fair criticism.
Dakich secretly encoding antisemitic messaging in a rant about booing fans? That’s a much tougher case to make with the words he actually used.
How do you know I am not Jewish?
=>I get the distinction you’re making, but “lived experience” can explain why someone perceives something a certain way; it doesn’t automatically make that perception accurate.
If a trope is actually there, we should be able to point to the words and say, “that’s the trope.” In this case the descriptions are coke, popped collars, loud mouths, and rich suburban kids from Chicago and the NY/NJ/Long Island area — which is a pretty standard college-sports caricature that’s been around forever.
So I’m not dismissing your reaction, but the gap here is that the rant itself never actually references Jews or recognizable antisemitic tropes. Without that step, the argument ends up relying on assumptions about who lives in certain suburbs rather than what Dakich actually said.
And once we’re doing that, we’re a long way from the claim that the rant itself is antisemitic.
Holy shit we have a 30-0 basketball team. What the hell is going on in MHT land between this thread and the donation thread (which should have the 7 year waiting period waived and immediately be inducted into the hall of fame).
Can @YellowNumber5 please break into his quaalude supply and distribute?
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I don’t know @Hoosierhawk. Have you donated $300 yet?