I remember the 1,000-mile rule being placed on the conference board, not in any release note, aboutr a RL year ago. Those that say HD is really uninterested in endorcement, unless someone rats out a person in violatrion of a rule established long after they had their teams are correct. The same thing happened when a few people complained because their teams had been beaten by a lesser opponent, forgetting that even in RL, lots of upsets happen. HD made it harder for that to happen, because a few people complained loudly. Same with guys with multiple teams closer than 1K away. There are probably lots of them, left over from when it was legal, and from guys that say, post-1K rule, well, if they are not going to enforce it unless somebody rats me out, why not try it? Worst that can happen is I lose a team, and my rep goes down for a few seasons. But when somebody complains--like whoever ratted out Billy G and Iguana, they take action. Happened to a friend--he lost a team, and his rep in his other alias took a major hit. But some other guy--no rep hit; just had to give up one of his teams at the end of the year. Selective enforcement and unequal punishment--if you have criticized HD, ever, you will probably get a harsher penalty. In the minds of the holier-than-thou guys that ratted out BillyG and Iguana--whoever they were--appearance meant reality. If they violated a sacrosanct rule, they must be punished, because obviously, they were using it to their advantage. People, there is a reason new laws are not applied retroactively. If we decide to up the property tax, we don't go back and sue taxpayers for back taxes under the new rule.
Still maintain collusion is a zillion times more of a threat to competition. Guys more or less dividing up recruits, and agreeing to savage any school challenging any of them. Have a friend that has written several tickets on this matter, and HD, though officially frowning on such practices, cannot do much about it, especially if the collaborators use email, vice site mail. If it were me colluding, would NEVER, EVER use site mail.