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Fixing the top 40

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I must admit it: I love the concept of a top 40 draft to create a new Division I-A, and was truly curious what my colleagues were thinking as they wondered along with the rest of us when Slive -- I mean Mark Schlabach -- was going to draft Vandy. (I'm kidding Mark. I literally pumped my fist when you picked Ole Miss, saving me the trouble of sounding like a shill to The Grove crowd since I wondered if the guys were going to hold the Rebs' post-Archie years against them.) But in the end, I kep ...

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