I’ll spare the other thread my continued thoughts on lack of fan engagement, and interrupt the Hugs chatter here to comment on one of @jphat007 's fair points:
He notes that there aren’t thousands of UVa die-hards beating down the door to watch a B/W stream. I think this is absolutely correct. But my point is that there’s a virtuous feedback loop here. There are probably less than a hundred people like me who are annoyed by this. And if it streamed, there’d be only a few hundred people watching it. But you can already see the difference – only a few people like me who actively care, but several times more that amount who would watch. And then more who would see highlights get retweeted or grammed or whatever onto their timelines. And then more people become aware, and want to watch it next year. Etc. We won’t get UNC or Duke or Kansas-like engagement. But we have lots of fans out there who mostly tune out from April to November because they’ve been trained to tune out, and if you train more of them not to tune out, then they wouldn’t.
(But yes, on this, I am also selfish. I’d really like to get my first real glimpse of the new guys and see how they mesh with the old guys, and I know I won’t get that until garbage time of the first few games).