Joel Klatt’s No. 1 idea to fix college football: “The one that the coaches talk about most is the calendar. I firmly believe that a lot of things would get fixed, if we focused on fixing the calendar. The way that I would phrase it is that we need to do what everyone else does. We need to compete, then we need to roster build, and then we need to prepare. And those 3 chunks need to be separate versus overlapped. Right now, they’re overlapping, and it presents a huge problem.”Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt was supposed to be a coach or an investment banker, but instead he is now challenging Kirk Herbstreit as the most authoritative voice in college football.Through his role on Fox’s “Big Noon Saturday” game of the week and his podcast, Klatt has become something of the conscience of college football. While Herbstreit’s voice is still prominent with roles on “College GameDay” and as the game analyst for the College Football Playoff Championship, he also calls NFL games on Amazon Prime Video. Klatt is more singularly focused on college football, even if broadcasting wasn’t the original plan.“I would say 100 percent,” the 44-year-old Klatt told The Athletic when asked if it is accurate to call him the “accidental analyst.” “Never did journalism school, didn’t take broadcasting classes.”After a brief minor league baseball career and three years as a walk-on-turned-starter at quarterback for Colorado in the early 2000s, Klatt considered becoming a coach like his dad but instead decided to use his economics degree to work for a real estate investment trust.That was going fine, but one day former Colorado linebacker great Alfred Williams was under the weather so a TV producer named Ken Miller asked Klatt if he would fill in as the analyst on a high school game broadcast for Fox Sports Rocky Mountain. Initially, Klatt said no, but then, just married, thought, “Who couldn’t use an extra $150 or so?” and gave it a try.He liked it, and he was good. He did some more, and Miller passed his name to Fox Sports Southwest. Klatt was now in the college football TV studio, talking Big 12.In 2008, the real estate market crashed. Klatt lost his job.His wife, Sara, picked up the slack with a promotion at her pharmaceutical job to make the finances work. She also provided some life-altering encouragement to him about the TV opportunity.“She was like, ‘Try it, see if you can do it full-time,'” Joel said.And so he did.Joel Klatt’s No. 2 idea to fix college football: “Second, we need to get the governance of our sport out of the courtroom, because that’s what’s killing us. It’s not that we don’t have rules. It’s that we are not able to enforce rules. And so some structure that has enforcement power to enforce the rules that are, candidly, already there. We don’t have that because players and schools just take these entities to court immediately. Judges in different states give different rulings based on eligibility for players who have signed and participated in an NFL camp, which is crazy.”