

But as you know, it seems like, this year, a lot of people have been mad at me. “Danny owes our fans and our students an apology,” Izzo said of Dakich, who also broadcast MSU’s loss a week earlier at Michigan, where his son Andrew plays. He was shown Dakich’s tweets in which Dakich called MSU fans whiners, said “MSU is always worried about UM,” and accused a Twitter user of only going to MSU because he did not get into Michigan (which Dakich called “the gut shot” on his show). Izzo said, at first, he was angry with then fans, then asked an athletic staff member why they were so venomous. The Izzone bellowed chants of “We Hate Dakich” and rained boos on the TV color analyst throughout MSU’s 74-66 win over Ohio State. … I’m not gonna get into what you guys and what everybody wants us to get into, even though I understand – it’s gotta be an article, it’s gotta be a topic. I just voiced my opinion of what I thought, and he voiced his.

“I’m not holding any grudges against him. It’s what it was, and it’s over,” Izzo said. Izzo after practice Thursday said he has not spoken with Dakich since before Tuesday’s game at Breslin Center. “In my opinion, there’s differences - maybe not to anybody else, but in my opinion, there’s differences.” I wasn’t tweeting at a school or a student body, I was tweeting at individuals. My problem is I don’t think he really understood who I was tweeting at. “You know what? Tom felt like he needed to protect his program. And hey, if I’m gonna spew it, I gotta take it,” Dakich said on his radio show on ESPN 1070 in Indianapolis. Rather than issue the apology MSU basketball coach Tom Izzo demanded after Tuesday night’s win over Ohio State, the ESPN analyst and talk show host said that the furor over his recent tweets were “much ado about nothing, in my opinion.”

EAST LANSING - Dan Dakich doubled down on his hot takes about Michigan State.
