The new-look Big Ten is a godsend for Fox Sports, and nobody at the network gets a more featured role on huge games this week than its top announcers, Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt.
Johnson is most discussed because of his penchant for exuberant calls in close games. But in a new New York Post story on the duo, who, along with Jenny Taft, are in Year 5 together calling college football for Fox, Johnson heaped massive praise on Klatt as a “football savant” who he believes is in line with generational schemers like Sean McVay and Norv Turner.
“He’s a coach,” Johnson told Ryan Glasspiegel of the Post. “He’s a young, innovative mind that can decipher and present football at any level because he’s an incredible broadcaster.”
Johnson believes Klatt could be changing the game as a coach the same way the Los Angeles Rams coach revolutionized football with his outside zone schemes and Turner did with the West Coast offense. Instead, he delivers analysis to college…
