Back in the day, I sent alot of tickets about various aspects of the game. Almost always whining about some result that I thought was too extreme. In the larger context, they comprised a log of outliers offered to demonstrate that, in my mind, they were too frequent and/or too bizarre. Tarik, intentionally, always handled them.
My position on this is no secret. If coaches are constrained (as it has to be in a computer game) in the tactics they can employ, then I feel that that limitation warrants a bit of contraction in the amount of variabilty a coach should have to face. In short, reign in the randomness a little. (Don't eliminate it.)
Most of the time, Tarik would send back a response, often as sarcastic and biting as the ticket I sent to him, and usually with a boxscore or headline from a real NCAA game showing a similar situation. At the WIS "get togethers" we never talked very long without referencing my tickets and he'd typically launch right into more defense that they had the randomness thing, just about right.
Ahhh, those were the days!
So, anyway...
The new management was not so tolerant nor prone to intellectual jousting.
One day I looked at my ticket history (I had stopped checking after every missive because they didn't always warrant, or get, responses) to find that the New Boss had sent me a note to the effect that they did not appreciate my recurring tickets. They said if I didn't stop, they'd cut off my privileges.
Unfortunately, I had already launched a couple between the time they "warned" me and the time I saw that note.
From here, it gets vague.
I promptly responded that I knew full welll that I was sending in tickets to make the grander point, and that I didn't really expect responses to them. (Hence the extended period where I didn't check for responses.) I further told them that I hadn't timely seen their warning and that I would stop sending them and, in the future, only send in a ticket for something that really deserved one. (Like the one above.)
I think after they sent me the warning, but before I read it, they took offfense at the couple of tickets I had fired off in the interim. I attempted to explain that. I never intended to send that kind of ticket after they specifically objected to them.
That seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
The last, visible, dated ticket from me in Allen is from April 2009.
I don't know if they still actually can receive a ticket from me (and just ignore it) or whether the system simply disposes of it upon sending, so they don't even know one was sent.
I think a sentence of banishment for over a year more than adequately fits the crime. Especially when I "behaved" from the minute I saw their note.
So, if anyone cares to use their diplomatic relations to intercede for me (like we use the Swiss to communicate with Iran, etc.) I would appreciate it. I'd like to know if I have correctly interpreted the situation and, more importantly, how do I apply for parole?