"I pledge to be a great teammate, provide great content and kick the living hell out of all three of you." "Hey, my wife and I are in town, my daughter lives here and I watched your Titans beat the hell out of my Colts," he said to Jonathan Hutton, Chad Withrow and Paul Kuharsky, in studio with him.ĭakich said he was thrilled to be part of Outkick.
I don’t mind talking about things that maybe ESPN didn’t necessarily want me talking about." 'I pledge to be a great teammate'ĭakich sat in a studio in Nashville Monday, where Outkick is based. "It’s not a meritocracy and I like meritocracy.”īeing part of Outkick was appealing to Dakich, he said, because “I don’t mind talking politics. "And I am like ‘OK, then why am I not doing North Carolina-Duke?’ or ‘Why am I getting bumped by Vitale and Bilas to do the Indiana-Purdue game? It’s a big game,'" he said. "I got to do a ton of stuff because of the money and that’s fine, but there’s a whole world out there that I want to have influence in.”ĭakich went on to say that every one of his bosses at ESPN would tell him "you are the best guy we have at ESPN, period."
"I’m not going to do games at ESPN and that was as much my choice as their choice," he said. Outkick describes itself as a "fearless sports media company founded by Clay Travis." Travis boasts on his website that he is banned from appearing on ESPN and is known to frequently bash the network.ĭakich, similarly, on Monday had negative things to say about ESPN as he revealed he would no longer be announcing college basketball games for the network, a job he's held for a decade.
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