I had a player message me once, suggesting we help each other out during recruiting. Specifically, he wanted us to divide up the states so I would recruit some and he would recruit some. Then he said we could call dibs on certain players, kind of like taking turns on the best ones. He was a coach who had some success at his old team before coming and joining a new conference with me in my very first season ever in HD. He didn't ask me all of this until maybe my 4th season in, because we had really got along great and he was struggling to rebuild his new program. He really felt other conferences were already doing this and we'd be levelling the odds.
Well PlatoIsek had already made it quite clear to me that that kind of stuff was forbidden so my response was a gentle and sympathetic no, a promise I wouldn't tell anyone about our conversation, and an offer to point out any great recruits I saw near the end of recruiting if it seemed he was struggling (JsaJsa and Plato have both since told me this is also wrong. Sorry guys, I was a noob). Anyway, he never took me up on it. Instead, he became very weird towards me right away and hinted later on that I was one of the cheaters. Then he deleted me as a friend on facebook and left the league altogether. I actually miss the guy, he was very talkative and laughed at all of my jokes on the CC.
Also, I tried to lose a game on purpose (95% I would have lost anyway) so a player in my conference could make the NT, since I wasn't going to make it anyway. This was probably my 2nd season playing? Anyway I had sent him a sitemail to tell him about it and told him my depth chart and settings for the game as well. He was VERY upset with me and it took a long time to get him to be cool with me again I think. At the time I thought it was only natural to want to help my conference mate out, but again after talking to Plato, he said he would have felt the same exact way as the coach who was upset with me. I now have a pretty good understanding for what you should and shouldn't do in this game and can see now why the coach was angry instead of happy. Memories :)
There was no real purpose for this post, except that all of you may get a chuckle from my stupidity ;)