Cyniclone
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RE: Time to vote for your favorite mock P-league!
This is a fun off-season thought exercise that can never be recreated in the real world because no athletic department would ever let itself be drafted like a strong safety from Colorado State. There's no chance that all FBS conferences would ever self-destruct, and even if you found a way to make it happen, the schools that share strong ties would find their way back to each other. You might lose a couple of athletic/academic/institutional/geographic anomalies in the process, but other than perhaps the ACC (since it has evolved into such a patchwork coalition of schools and regions compared to the tight South Atlantic footprint it had into the 90s), the other conferences are going to be largely recognizable, albeit possibly under a new name.
In other words, "this realignment could never happen" is a moot point because nobody expects it to. It's just a way to kill time during down time. Though I do think that the contiguous-state rule for the first four picks at least forced GMs to think regionally instead of just trying to grab the best 12 schools they could regardless of where they are, which is how a lot of these college realignment drafts end up. And at least for my part, once I realized that I was going to get most of the core Big 10 schools, I tried to make it as much like the Big 10 as possible while not just picking off whatever B10 schools were still available and calling it a day.
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