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The pool comments and targeting Kalman-Lamb while revealing details of how to reach him, considered doxxing by some, prompted more criticism of Dakich. Well, if you go at it in a pool, that’s a public place and then I’m gonna have to get divorced, and then it’s just gonna be a problem.”Īs detailed in Ian Kennedy on CKSN.ca, Dakich then started “doxxing Kalman-Lamb by physically spelling out his last name to listeners and repeatedly discussing his office hours in a hostile manner.” Dakich also referred to him as a “d-bag” while launching into a discussion about how athletic coaches are better than professors because they have more “office hours.” And I said outside the arena, and then she wanted to, quote, go at in the pool.
But that’s sexist apparently because I said bitching and a lady was in the conversation. It’s what everybody does, everybody just bitches. I didn’t even realize, I just said bitching because it’s what people do. Now, remember, it was two girls…two men and one lady. And they said, ‘well, you’re yelling at student-athletes while they’re being exploited’ or something, and I said, look, maybe, but I…I was in the arena and you guys were sitting outside bitching. “Two guys and a lady, right? Two guys and a lady came at me. Buncha academics last night,” Dakich said. Documentation of the radio comments by Awful Announcing and Chatham-Kent Sports Network show Dakich may have crossed a line with ESPN: Dakich then took the conversation from Twitter to his radio show on Wednesday.