Cotler & Co this morning

[Urbandale_Panther]

Anyone get a chance to listen to Cotler & Co. this morning in the Des Moines area? I was rushing to a meeting, but he went off on UNI fans for complaining about not getting mentioned. At one point he said "I bend over backwards to cover UNI and this is what I get." Which is quite back-handed I guess, you'd think sports radio would want to cover the best team in their state, not feel like they are doing favors to do so. I

Regardless, Cotler and his producer have always lacked in covering UNI whether they admit it or not. They interview the coach every Wednesday and then pat themselves on the back for all the community service they did. On the other hand, Marty & Miller do a good job of mentioning UNI and seem to actually ENJOY talking about the state of UNI basketball.

I missed my opportunity to call in as he "challenged" fans to do so. Was interested in hearing how that went. If you heard or were able to call in, please let me know. I'd be interested in how his rant ended.

[9YRPLAN]

i think i was the second caller. i dont think he knows that much about uni. he pretty much agreed with everything i said.

marty and miller talk about UNI alot more.

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

Yeah - I called in too. I was a little disappointed though. There were a few callers previous to me that seemed to be pansies. Instead of taking it to Cotlar for failing to even mention UNI in his opening segment (while talking about Drake, Iowa, and ISU), the first callers were like: "Any coverage we get is fine - we're a small school and don't expect as much" and "UNI is good this year but probably wouldn't make it very far in the tournament because its guard play isn't that strong." Huh??? What!??? Yeah guys, way to stand up for UNI.

I couldn't figure out why every Panther fan was letting Cotlar skate by, so I called and said: "Larry, if Iowa, ISU, or Drake were 13-2, undefeated in their conference, and in the #3-ranked conference in the nation, you wouldn't have forgotten to mention THEM." That pissed him off...

[panther2317]

Does it surprise people that the play-by-play voice of the Drake Bulldogs is talking less about UNI on his show now? Before he got that gig, I thought he at least tried to talk about UNI. But for him, the Bulldogs are in the forefront and UNI is now on the back burner.

Shame on him though for calling out UNI fans for being passionate about their team and demanding more coverage.

[ceaser150]

I heard some of that exchange yesterday morning. He put it all back on the listeners and said if people want to talk UNI, they need to call. It's not his fault. I would think as the host of a show he should be on top of the big sports stories in the state and at least mention them. I agree Marty and Miller do a much better job of including UNI discussion. I lost a lot of respect for Cotlar after yesterday morning. I regret not calling in. Maybe I'll try calling in during his "What's your Beef" segment. Wednesday morning, I think?

[9YRPLAN]

i said that because i think if uni has a fault, it is their guards ballhandling ability. its true. i didnt hear cotlar say anything negative about uni. regardless of being a uni fan, im not going to be the delusional dbag who thinks they have no weaknesses. those type of jackasses were pimping drake as a tourney team 2 weeks ago.

i dont listen to cotlar enough to know if he does or does not talk about uni....i just happened to get in the car when he told us to call in.

[pantherfan4ever]

i said that because i think if uni has a fault, it is their guards ballhandling ability. its true. i didnt hear cotlar say anything negative about uni. regardless of being a uni fan, im not going to be the delusional dbag who thinks they have no weaknesses. those type of jackasses were pimping drake as a tourney team 2 weeks ago.

i dont listen to cotlar enough to know if he does or does not talk about uni....i just happened to get in the car when he told us to call in.

well I dont think anyone on these boards would say that we have no weaknesses with our team... however, our guardplay is pretty solid. it isnt as talented as last year, but brooks has proved to be a great team leader at running the offense, and josten viet and brown have done very well at guard too. i actually like our team and it's depth more than last year and think that come tourny time we will have more of a chance of moving out of the first round than in the past 3 years.

you are pretty ignorant to get on here and claim we dont see any weaknesses with our team and call us dbags and jackasses.. you obviously dont know much about our team.. and with your 8 posts i wonder if you are actually Cotlar getting on here to defend yourself, while calling us names.

[wonkadog]

Nah, if it was Cotlar he would have thrown a "Blues music rules!!!" at the end of his post and then pimped the Bogey Brothers golf hour.

[Back2BackCats]

Quit listening to Cotlar this summer when they would give you all of the MLB scores at 6:40 then for the next 20 minutes you got to hear 1 replay from each game listening to the home town announcer saying 'it's high, it's deep, it's gone, I didn't get it. He never has any facts to back his opinion and gets very offended and will bad mouth anyone that disagrees with him.

[wonkadog]

The problem is that he never has a definite opinion on any subject. He's too worried about ticking off anyone on his "great" contact list. His "wishy-washiness" further confuses me when he suddenly goes crazy on someone out of the blue for no reason at all. It's like he's all of a sudden having his period sometimes.

[CIPanther]

I was listening when he went on his rant. He almost seemed to be threatening all Panther fans that he wasn't going to mention us anymore because that one e-mailer made him angry. I'm not sure what that was about. Have Hawk or Cyclone fans never criticized Larry to his face before?

He was telling us to get used to our "third university" status. As if we weren't already aware of where we stand. It was all slightly overboard. I, too, lost some repect for Larry on Monday morning.

[9YRPLAN]

i think you misunderstood me...i was referring to cotlar and the other drake fans who were calling in and bragging up drake as the jackasses. you dont hear much from them anymore.

i am fine with UNI being under the radar. maybe im nitpicking, but i still worry that our guards have trouble dribbling under pressure with their off hands...its too predictable and easy to trap. also, consistency behind the arc from our starting backcourt hasn't been there, but others have stepped up.

and ive been to, watched, or listened to every UNI game since i moved back to cf in 2001....notice the "supporting member" logo

[Matt Trump]

C'mon. Cotlar is one of the best in Des Moines about giving UNI and the Valley its due. Even in years past before he was PBP for Drake. He also does a good job in announcing gamewatches when we let him know. Not to mention him helping out with promoting the PSC golf outing in Ankeny. He never fails to mention when and where we are playing. Even during sports updates throughout the afternoon, he mentions UNI.

A lot of times, what he discusses depends on what people call in about. I know I'm guilty of this, but if more people in Des Moines stopped complaining about the talk radio coverage and starting calling in and actually discussing the play on the court, it might be different.

The only person who deliberately refuses to talk about UNI is Jon Miller because his show is geared strictly toward Hawk/Clone talk.

[OH BABY! I luv this team!]

C'mon. Cotlar is one of the best in Des Moines about giving UNI and the Valley its due. Even in years past before he was PBP for Drake. He also does a good job in announcing gamewatches when we let him know. Not to mention him helping out with promoting the PSC golf outing in Ankeny. He never fails to mention when and where we are playing. Even during sports updates throughout the afternoon, he mentions UNI.

A lot of times, what he discusses depends on what people call in about. I know I'm guilty of this, but if more people in Des Moines stopped complaining about the talk radio coverage and starting calling in and actually discussing the play on the court, it might be different.

The only person who deliberately refuses to talk about UNI is Jon Miller because his show is geared strictly toward Hawk/Clone talk.

Matt,

I agree that Jon Miller talks a lot of Iowa/Iowa State sports on his talk show but I have been on Miller's show a number of times as a guest talking UNI sports, both football and basketball, so to say he "deliberately refuses to talk about UNI" just isn't accurate. UNI fans need to continue to let those sports talk shows know that YOU want more UNI and to get the UNI coaches and staff and athletes on some and when UNI does something worthy of air time CALL INTO those shows and get on the air and talk about it! In all fairness to Miller, I have been on his show 15 times for every one time Cotlar has had me on to talk UNI football or basketball. Cotlar may have had Coach Farley or Coach Jake on a time or two which is great and what they should do and do more of!!

[CIPanther]

C'mon. Cotlar is one of the best in Des Moines about giving UNI and the Valley its due. Even in years past before he was PBP for Drake. He also does a good job in announcing gamewatches when we let him know. Not to mention him helping out with promoting the PSC golf outing in Ankeny. He never fails to mention when and where we are playing. Even during sports updates throughout the afternoon, he mentions UNI.

Maybe so, but he went overboard the other day. He was still going on about it before he had Coach Jacobson on this morning. When you are on the radio, you need to learn to take a little criticism in stride.