Even Adam Schefter is advocating for the Big Ten to play now

Add Adam Schefter to the list of people wanting the Big Ten to play sports this fall. 

It’s been an odd road for the Big Ten Conference, who was the first of the Power-5 conferences to postpone fall sports, with the PAC-12 following shortly after.

The decision was met with mixed reviews, especially recently when reports started to surface that the conference was eyeing a start date sooner than the spring. Initially, the conference was looking at January as a potential start date, then it was after Thanksgiving and now according to Dan Patrick, the Big Ten could even start things up in October.

Adam Schefter appeared on “Get Up” and made his thoughts known on the Big Ten’s decision making. Schefter said, “I think this country in a certain way, for football, has made progress. I know college is a different atmosphere, but I’ve been so surprised and impressed with the NFL that with these colleges, like Michigan, you’re going through as if you’re playing a game on the weekend. Why can’t you just do that at that point in time?”

Adam Schefter has a point about how the Big Ten is handling things.

Three of the other Power-5 conferences are looking to begin their seasons the weekend after Labor Day and even the conferences that aren’t playing this fall are still practicing as if they are playing a game on Saturday. That was a big part of Schefter’s argument, as he noted that Michigan is practicing during the week as if it were a normal season.

“They’re practicing every week day. On Tuesday and Thursday, they lift. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays they practice. They practice as if they have a game this week. They are going through all of the motions and actions that they would if there were actually a season. What is the difference if they play one more game on a Saturday?”

While the Big Ten seemed adamant that they would stick by their initial decision, it seems like they’re starting to waver a bit and could end up taking the field in the next few months as opposed to the spring, which was originally the plan.

Schefter isn’t the first one to speak out about what the Big Ten is doing (or rather — not doing), as ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit was also confused as to what was going on.

President Trump also encouraged the conference to play and noted that the virus won’t affect them.

It’d be odd to see the Big Ten reverse course on its decision, especially with how confident they seemed to be when making it. The fact that they’re now eyeing an October start date is strange because if it wasn’t safe enough to start up play now, thinking that it’ll be safer in a month seems like a weird route to take.