Why would you expect a public announcement?
They didn't 'act like a cap was in place'. They looked at contracts signed that year and determined how they will be charged to the cap.
There is no collusion, just a league dealing with the issue of how to handle and accounting practice.
It isn't about pretending cap was in place.
The issue is simply about how to amortize monehy paid in 2010 for long term reasons.
What exact action makes you keep saying they acted like there was a cap?
The whole concept started with someone misunderstanding what they are making the adjustment for, decided to dub it collusion, so now people are making up what the collusion must have been. Its all assbackwards.
Huh?
The issue is about subverting signing bonusses and accelerating future money into 2010. There was nothing collusive about it, there was nothing having anything to do with competitive advantage or with imposing a phony cap.