{"id":57944,"date":"2025-07-11T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57944\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:08:12","slug":"ncaa-under-fire-from-joel-klatt-over-missed-90s-shift-that-olympics-embraced-just-stood-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57944\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Under Fire From Joel Klatt Over Missed \u201990s Shift That Olympics Embraced – “Just Stood There”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Klatt is currently covering the Big 12 media days at The Star in Frisco, Texas. However, as a long-time analyst and a former quarterback of the Colorado Buffaloes, he attracts some media attention from reporters at the event.<\/p>\n

At one point, while talking with Brian Howell, Klatt explained why he feels that the NCAA\u2019s decision not to modernize in the 1990s brought on consequences that are being felt today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cJeremy\u2026was like, \u2018How is this any different?\u2019 And I said, \u2018It\u2019s not. It\u2019s not.\u2019 and the NCAA again, that the\u2026lack of foresight from the NCAA. It was archaic that they\u2026felt like essentially\u2026Jeremy taking money from Oakley as a sponsorship was somehow because he was a college football player, and it\u2019s like\u2026somehow that\u2019s worse than somebody playing by the Pirates\u2026as the Olympics modernized in the early 90s, even with the Dream Team\u2026the NCAA just stood there.\u201d (5:20)<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to retain their 1950s model, and we are right now suffering the chaos of the ineptitude of the NCAA through those years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Truth be told, the NCAA seemed to be the last bastion of amateurism for sports. The other big sports organization clinging to the concept, the International Olympic Committee, dropped the idea a long time ago and left US college athletics in an anachronistic situation when compared to the rest of the world of sports.<\/p>\n

House v. NCAA isn\u2019t just a monumental change for sports in the US. It was the death knell of the amateur sports system. Some think for the better, others think for the worst.<\/p>\n

\"PFSN<\/a>Dive into Try out PFSN\u2019s FREE college football playoff predictor, where you can simulate every 2025-26 NFL season game and see who wins the National Championship!<\/p>\n

Joel Klatt on the 2025 Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of the \u201cJoel Klatt Show\u201d, Klatt weighed<\/a> in on the possibilities of Matt Rhule\u2019s Nebraska Cornhuskers making it to the College Football Playoff this season, and the chances he\u2019s giving them might surprise you:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got an experienced quarterback. They upgraded at the wide receiver position from last year. \u2026 To me, it all comes down to schedule. They\u2019ve got a real shot to be 7-1 in their first eight games going into November. Now, will they be?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure they\u2019re going to have to win some of those close games, which historically has been a real issue for Nebraska. \u2026 You look at that Nov. 1 USC game, that\u2019s the one that I\u2019ll be kind of looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As per Joel Klatt, Nebraska have got a favorable schedule and they could be playing some meaningful games in November.<\/p>\n

He also feels that the Cornhuskers have a core of returning veterans, including their quarterback Dylan Raiola, and even last year, they were very close in almost all the games they lost. It\u2019s just about nudging them a bit, and they can compete for a spot in the CFP.<\/p>\n

College Sports Network has you covered with the latest news, analysis, insights, and trending stories in\u00a0football<\/a>,\u00a0basketball<\/a>, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt is currently covering the Big 12 media days at The Star in Frisco, Texas. However, as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-57944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836885283186022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}