Brooks is using the same IP as Rike Miley, who used to be...Po Belini. I don't recall if he is a friend or relative to any of the banned - but like Abdullah and Roto, Rike Miley is posting through a router. He's registered more than 90 IP addresses. Oddly enough, both Brooks and Tearfrogs show only two IPs to each user. That's not Abdullah's or Roto's MO, which makes me suspect that both are socks for some other of the banned.
And yeah, Mav, you're right. And isn't it odd that Junior and SD and the others stick around? They have a shiny new board to play with, but here they are. That's one of the reasons I suspect that HLR is not going to survive. Or rather, it could survive but never be a large community. That, and as someone noted (NUance?), it's fueled through hatred of Huskerboard. Don't see that as an enticing combination for luring in new members.