Joel Klatt resides roughly 2,300 miles away from Schembechler Hall. But in recent weeks it feels as if he lives next door.
His name keeps popping up inside the Michigan football headquarters. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy has referenced him. The team’s two offensive coordinators, Sherrone Moore and Matt Weiss, have been asked about his various critiques. When the Fox analyst leaves his home in Newport Beach, California, and heads to Ann Arbor on Friday to do additional prep work for the Penn State game he will call this weekend, he wonders how he’ll be received by a team he has come to admire.