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Does anyone think that the Klatt kid has a point?

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scooter1369 said:
Who the hell is this Klatt kid?
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this is the klatt kid

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Jeffcat said:
personally i understand the safety for the players but i had the NFL's sissy penalties such as the horsecollar, no big hits allowed, and helmet ot helmet is taken to the next level. it is watering down the game. i played football you go out there to play and everybody is trying to take your head off. thats the whole idea of the game is to physically manhandle a person to a ground for a tackle in any way possible. if you get hurt you get hurt its part of the game deal with it. how often do you see helme to helmet calls called in a high school game when the QB gets drilled? i dont see too many pussy calls in the high school games with the exception of this year in the washington vs X game in the finals when the tackler simply lifted the player up and tackled him into the ground and they threw a flag for it as "unnecessary roughness". im just hoping it doesnt become a trend to water down the sport more. luckily the college and high school game is still for the most part great to watch and id like to keep it that way.
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I'm half and half. Some calls in the NFL shouldnt be called. Some calls are absoultly ridicoulous. I dont think hitting a QB should be any diffrent than any other player. I dont think the QB should be an exception and have special rules for hitting him. However, while I sit on the couch and get pissed when a monster hit is punished with 15 yards, a fine and I yell "Isnt this football!!?", I understand the reason. These guys are fast, fit, strong atheltes that weigh 200 pounds and are moving at 4.4 speed hitting like a hammer. Can you imagine if every single hit was a monster hit? It'd be badass but there would be a ton of injuries and most likely even some deaths.
 
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jwinslow said:
helmet to helmet is an interesting call, since even in the NFL it happens quite a bit without a call unless it is a monster blow by the defender.

college defenders have more time to hit the QB a step or two after he throws it. That might be a better rule to enforce, as the helmet to helmet one tends to be subjective.
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Seriously, Klatt got smoked at the end of the game, when it was already 70-3. It was a pretty brutal hit, and it was helmet to helmet. I am not sure how many of you saw it, but the dude couldn't walk himself to the locker room. NCAA needs to find a better balance (as opposed to the NFL, who has pussified the league)
 
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barlow1802 said:
I'm half and half. Some calls in the NFL shouldnt be called. Some calls are absoultly ridicoulous. I dont think hitting a QB should be any diffrent than any other player. I dont think the QB should be an exception and have special rules for hitting him. However, while I sit on the couch and get pissed when a monster hit is punished with 15 yards, a fine and I yell "Isnt this football!!?", I understand the reason. These guys are fast, fit, strong atheltes that weigh 200 pounds and are moving at 4.4 speed hitting like a hammer. Can you imagine if every single hit was a monster hit? It'd be badass but there would be a ton of injuries and most likely even some deaths.
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i agree. they can make some changes but those same guys can take a bit more of a beating. i highly doubt we would see deaths but there would be injuries. they know what their getting into as a player. i never went into a high school football game expecting to feel all dandy and walk out with flying colors. we had people play on broken ankles/fingers and stretches and tears. im sure i prolly wouldnt begin to fathom what is like for a punt returner catching a ball with 11 other guys coming to destroy you but i think the return guys cant be too worried. they are running full speed into guys coming head on into them. late hits hsould be called on QB's but i dont see why you should hit a QB any differently. its just another guy posessing a ball. if klatt had any intention of entering the NFL in any way he better just stop now because the NFL players are a little bigger and faster and stronger than college.
 
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I am kind of a Colorado homer, but that happened to Craig Ochs, a highly recruited quarterback before Klatt and he had concussions to the point of the team doctors saying he shouldn't play anymore. Barnett wouldn't let him play because of that so his Mother and Father, of all people, raised so much hell that he transferred to Montana.

It happens alot!
 
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Crashcup said:
It happens alot!
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When you say that, it appears that you are referring to concussions caused by helmet to helmet hits. I agree with that as far as it goes.

The specific hit that we are discussing here was a helmet to chin blow on a DB blitz with the game already well out of hand. I don't recall ever having seen that, and I have been watching college football since 1968.

While I agree that the NFL has sissified the game; this was not one of the better moments of the season. 'nuff said
 
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barlow1802 said:
Fatsen your chin strap up tight and that wont happen.

..well maybe
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your chinstrap slides around like that all the time no matter how tight you make it, it happens to Hawk a lot if you watch for it, and Pusluzny (sp?) has that gash on his nose from his helmet coming down and smacking the bridge of his nose, my helmet used to do the same thing only I never got a cut, just swelling haha, maybe I didn't hit as hard as Pusluzny, then again, maybe I'm tougher... hmmmmm
 
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It sounds to me like this kid's being a pussy. Do you think he'd be creating this much of a stir following the game if Colorado had beaten Texas 70-3? I kind of doubt it.

Big hits and concussions happen, and not just under the NCAA's "terrible" watch. You think this doesn't happen in the NFL? Ask Steve Young or Troy Aikman about it.

Does anybody know what the occurance rate of QB concussions is in college vs. that of the NFL? I don't know what it is, but I'd guess it's pretty similar.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
your chinstrap slides around like that all the time no matter how tight you make it, it happens to Hawk a lot if you watch for it, and Pusluzny (sp?) has that gash on his nose from his helmet coming down and smacking the bridge of his nose, my helmet used to do the same thing only I never got a cut, just swelling haha, maybe I didn't hit as hard as Pusluzny, then again, maybe I'm tougher... hmmmmm
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Last year, halfway through I stopped filling my helmet with air after thursdays walk throughs, and about 4 weeks later during a drill sure enough my helmet slid down like your saying except mine caught my right ear and slit the lower part in half. I'll post pictures if I can find them.
 
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