Purdue football coach Jeff Brohm has a plan to save Big Ten football

Purdue football’s Jeff Brohm has a plan in place to save the Big Ten.

Purdue football has a great leader and innovator in head coach in Jeff Brohm.

Only a day removed from the Big Ten punting on playing football games this fall, Brohm outlined a plan for what spring football in his Power 5 conference could look like. ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg shared the well-thought-out document created by Brohm on Thursday morning. It is incredibly innovative of Brohm to think on the fly and be creative, but will spring college football even work?

Jeff Brohm displayed the kind of leadership Kevin Warren simply could not.

In Brohm’s outline, there will be six weeks of training camp/ramp-up period from the middle of January to the end of February. An eight-game season with no byes would begin on Feb. 27, 2021 and run though April 17, 2021, followed by a two-week lead-up to a six-team playoff/postseason. In the first half of May, the Big Ten would have its postseason, as well as possibly the Rose Bowl.

With a little over a month off for summer, training camp for fall 2021 would begin on Sept. 4 for a 10-game regular season with one bye, followed by a six-team playoff, a Rose Bowl or a four-team playoff with the rest of the Power 5. While we can applaud Brohm for offering us a solution when the Big Ten university presidents have presented us only problems, his plan will not work out at all.

The Big Ten would play its regular season during a time of the year when it’s still ridiculously cold up in the midwest. Playing outside could be problematic, and certainly unsafe. Playing games inside indoor practice facilities will be a quirky and strange television product optically. Not having any built-in bye weeks when the virus may still be a part of our lives seems incredibly short-sided.

Having only a month and change off for all 14 member institutions won’t land well with any student-athletes, mentally or physically. Pushing back the start of the fall 2021 season to only have a 10-game season is flat-out comical really. Do you really think the ACC, the Big 12 and the SEC are going to respect the Big Ten and the Pac-12 for playing 10 games when they play 12?

Holding your own playoff and using the Rose Bowl as essentially a glorified prop is embarrassing. The Rose Bowl MUST be played in the mid-afternoon window on Jan. 1, or otherwise do not have it. This is the only bowl game worth a damn in the College Football Playoff era when it isn’t a national semifinal. Who would be down for Georgia and Oklahoma to play in Pasadena in January?

We can praise Brohm for trying when Warren never could, but spring football is still a terrible idea.

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