I think what really hurt Ian was disappearing from the regular threads and posting only in the online league thread. Especially after the game dropped and was missing features that he had mentioned. He was here for Marketing purposes only, similar to the guy who is here now asking about Madden 11 sounds wishlists.
It sounds to me like this Tiburon team is trying to make a game that looks like football and sounds like football....but has no real resemblance to football.