I am really getting sick of his high-horse. What a pompous asshole. He is trying to belittle all of CJ's arguments. What a ****. oh and he was a horrible player. **** himissed:
Klatt would whoop your ass.
I am really getting sick of his high-horse. What a pompous asshole. He is trying to belittle all of CJ's arguments. What a ****. oh and he was a horrible player. **** himissed:
Okay, so my ideas for Klatt are sh!tty. I'm still sick of him only bitching about the Buffs. His act has become very tiresome to me.People need to get real - you just cannot run out there and coach - it is actually against NCAA rules. The rules are very specific about who can coach. Several people have offered to help coach the kickers in the past and have been informed by CU that it was against NCAA rules.
Klatt is taking action that he has available to him. Just like a lot of fans post their opinions on Internet boards. IMO, people like Klatt and Alfred are helping CU by keeping passion and discussion going...the worst thing is when they stop talking about the team - see CSU. If you want to know why Klatt and Alfred (and a lot of others by the way) is that Hawkins burned to the ground comment was taken personally by these guys as an insult and affront to what they felt they contributed to the program.
Okay, so my ideas for Klatt are sh!tty. I'm still sick of him only bitching about the Buffs. His act has become very tiresome to me.
Just heard Klatt on another 87.7 show. Nate something or other. Anyway, he said that Wyoming was the 2nd best team on the Front Range and would beat CU.
Did he not see our game with Wyoming last year? Has he gone full retard?
I think Klatt is awesome. He's holding the CU admin accountable for the eff-ups that are taking place up there right now. Keep in mind that Klatt was THE GUY during the "scandal". He was the guy all the media went to to get an interview. He was a stand up guy then, and he expects the current crop of talking heads at CU to be stand-up guys as well. I have no problem with it. The guy walked the walk. He can be as smarmy as he wants to be. If I had the platform he has, I'd be doing the exact same thing.
Hate Klatt because he's using this as his lame attempt to "be somebody" in the media. He's not a Buff first, he's Joel first. I hate Hawkins too, but he's gone way overboard and he is DEFINITELY a Pompous prick. Can't stand to hear him. Alfred is ok, critical of the program at times, but I'm okay we Alfred.
I watched Alfred Williams play and Joel Klatt is no Alfred Williams. Not by a million miles. Alfred Williams I respect. Joel Klatt strikes me as a local reincarnation of Dennis Miller. "Hey... Everybody... Pay attention to ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Not a flame, but I'm of the opinion that he just wants Hawk gone. That's his motive and I think he's doing what he thinks he needs to do to help get that goal accomplished. I don't buy into any of this talk about how he's saying what he's saying just to further his career.Look, we all know Klatt was a great buff. He conducted himself on and off the field with the kind of character and integrity that we want our program to be associated with.
All of that was also in the past. The past. And no one is contesting any of that.
The question at hand is who is Klatt being now?
To me he appears to be a man willing to say nearly anything in order to help build his career. His criticisms of the buffs have been one sided, un-necessarily harsh and at times almost childish, IMHO. He seems to be intent on leveraging these dark times for the buffs into a career advancement opportunity by demonstrating that he is willing to throw salt into the wounds of his former team. So to me, Klatt right now is closer to Kizla than the man who showed great character during the recruiting scandal. This is why I want him to shut up.
Flame away.
Klatt was also the first guy to call BS on the Buffs last year when expectations were high again, so he does have some credibility. I do think you guys are taking that show a little too seriously, its sports talk radio. I'm pretty sure its an exaggerated schtick to get people interested...just look how we're all talking about the show. Basically they're doing a good cop/bad cop act. Granted I've been a little surprised at how far he's been willing to go for calling out Hawkins, but that happens all the time on big boy radio, which we're not really used to in Denver where the media tends to treat the local coaches with kid gloves. I bet if you could pin CJ down in a private conversation his opinion of the current situation wouldn't contain all the rainbows and sunshine of his on air opinions, remember he's still a part of the AD.
I think people are really missing the point here. The Klatt and CJ show is a local sports talk show that features two former Buff players who remain passionate about the program. They are willing to talk about the Buffs, anytime and all the time. There is a lot competition for the sports attention in this town and the media react to what the fans are interested in. I know the CJ and Klatt discourse creates and interest in the Buffs and keeps them in part of the limelight. You are not going to get 80,000 in that stadium if there is not interest in the program(see fairweather fan thread for context). Open the paper this morning and you have the Rockies in the playoff chase, the Broncos getting ready to take on the Manning and the Colts, the Nuggets talking about trading Melo, the Avs starting to play exhibition games, this is a fierce market and that you have two guys on for 3 hours a day that talk Buffs at least 50% of the time is huge.
I remember several years ago on the fan people were talking about CU during one of the talk shows and the producer kept breaking in and trying to change the subject. It peeved me off so I called the guy and asked him what his problem was with CU - it was a great conversation that really educated me on how talk radio works...he was really good about explaining where he was coming from. They do all sorts of polling to find out what their target demographic was interested in listening about and that CU was way down the list. That is when I realized they (the producers) were trying to control the topics discussed. That is why I loved Irv and Joe - they loved college football and they loved CU and would talk about it all the time. Now we have CJ and Klatt.
By the way they call out each other about every little thing. Plus CJ is equally annoying when he talks about Detroit.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to attack you, personally or otherwise, just pointing a couple things out. I think, based on the posts of yours I've read over the last 9 months, that you're a great Buff fan, and just as passionate about the program as the rest of us.
Devils Advocate: You claimed you're tired of his bitching, and stated that you'd like to see him DO something about it (i.e., volunteer to coach, campaign to get hired as a QB coach, etc.). But what have you personally done to stop his bitching? Have you called up his show to call him out on it? Have you tried turning off the radio, or publicly refused to listen to him? (You may have done exactly those things, and I just don't know about it.) Or are you, to paraphrase, just bitching in an open, public forum?
Fair enough. I stated that Klatt shouldn't bitch unless he's willing to do something about it, and because I have been bitching about Klatt's bitching you are calling me out and asking what I have done about it. I get it. Turn about is fair play (nice move too).
To be honest, I haven't done much. I do not listen to his show anymore. I didn't listen to it that often to start with (occasionally at best) but I have since stopped completely because Klatt has been rubbing me the wrong way. Also, any game he is commenting on I typically mute or switch to a different game just because his attitude, even when he's not commenting on a buff game, has started to annoy me to the point where I just can't listen anymore. Any football conference pre-view or wrap up commentary show he may be on gets the same.
These measures are minuscule and qualify only in name as me "doing something about it", so I don't really have a leg to stand on with respect to me calling for Klatt to do something about the buffs. On that point, touché, I am no better than Klatt because I am just making noise bitching but not really doing anything. I do still have a right to my opinion, as does Klatt, and in my opinion I think he has taken his bitching to far and I'm not convinced it is entirely in service of helping the buff program. As such, he has lost my support until he decides to change his tune. If you like, you can apply the same opinion to me.
Klatt wasn't my favorite player ever or anything, and if he's questioning CJ's love for the program.. wtf. But to constantly call him out is pretty lame, the guy ended his career for the black and gold.
I think people are really missing the point here. The Klatt and CJ show is a local sports talk show that features two former Buff players who remain passionate about the program. They are willing to talk about the Buffs, anytime and all the time. There is a lot competition for the sports attention in this town and the media react to what the fans are interested in. I know the CJ and Klatt discourse creates and interest in the Buffs and keeps them in part of the limelight. You are not going to get 80,000 in that stadium if there is not interest in the program(see fairweather fan thread for context). Open the paper this morning and you have the Rockies in the playoff chase, the Broncos getting ready to take on the Manning and the Colts, the Nuggets talking about trading Melo, the Avs starting to play exhibition games, this is a fierce market and that you have two guys on for 3 hours a day that talk Buffs at least 50% of the time is huge.
I remember several years ago on the fan people were talking about CU during one of the talk shows and the producer kept breaking in and trying to change the subject. It peeved me off so I called the guy and asked him what his problem was with CU - it was a great conversation that really educated me on how talk radio works...he was really good about explaining where he was coming from. They do all sorts of polling to find out what their target demographic was interested in listening about and that CU was way down the list. That is when I realized they (the producers) were trying to control the topics discussed. That is why I loved Irv and Joe - they loved college football and they loved CU and would talk about it all the time. Now we have CJ and Klatt.
By the way they call out each other about every little thing. Plus CJ is equally annoying when he talks about Detroit.
A lot of fans on this board hate to hear the truth. They're highly sensitive to it, in fact. Klatt isn't sobering up from all the spiked Kool-Aid served by Hawkins, as some fans on this board still are.