You could still start this up in December , could do the draft , all the trading, setting up rules n rosters n lines,create ROM.
Then let us exhi out and have fun then have the official league start January 3rd.
The initial beginning stuff will take a couple weeks anyways and then people can finish up playing classic
Waiting another 2 months to even start the process is kind of silly , I could be dead by then of old age lol