TV: Not Televised
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First and only question: Why are we being dumb and not even stream it?
- We are dumb
- So dumb
- Makes no sense
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So so so dumb
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Cancel the whole event and let the players actually practice and do something productive.
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Coming off the winningest season in program history, trying to build financial momentum and increase season ticket salesā¦ā¦makes perfect sense.
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I am legitimately curious why we donāt stream it. I want to know the actual justification. An attempt to force people who want to see it to come? Is the evidence strong that works?
Like tiny high schools in the middle of fucking nowhere can set up cameras and stream things now. Itās not hard. But is doing it up to what weād consider an acceptable standard too pricey? That seems improbable.
Itās like the blue white scrimmage once was. Nobody is forcing you to do these things. If you choose to do them, why not do them right in a way people want? Or just donāt do them. I donāt understand half assing them.
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It was televised the past couple years. How many people even watched? Half the team doesnāt play in it, the stadium looks bad empty, and itās a boring watch. And I say that as someone who goes to it basically every year.
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This right here. Itās a terrible televised experience watching a 1/18th full stadium of a bunch of walk-ons walking through vanilla offense and defense. The reality is few if anyone watches even when it is provided, and it ends up bringing on more negativity.
My stance is if canāt do it and blow it out and make it a spectacle itās not worth doing. Thereās a reason more programs are canceling their spring games all together.
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I did! Iām also aware I am a uva nut tho
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Spring Games are a thing of the past, in my opinion. Even the biggest/best programās spring games are a terrible watch, whether in person or on television. Iād rather teams produce a well-edited documentary-style offering (like we did back in the day with āBuilding A Programā).
Put the best highlights in it, do interviews, overdub with compelling music and sound, etc. Thatās a better hype machine in this day and age over a boring, predictable, glorified touch football game where many players donāt even participate. And on top of that itās poorly attended, so another bad look on TV.
Howeverā¦IF youāre going to have the Spring āGameā then you need to stream it and have a decent product. Iām team just donāt have it.
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Anyone planning to attend?
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This is a legacy of last yearās post-spring game portal period. Coaches are notoriously neurotic and for good reason, so you do not want to show anything and most particularly anything about players/new schemes. I regret a lot of that, in that I want to be hype that is denied in this new age. We like most fans of other teams are going in blind to next seasonās openers, and thatās just the way it is.
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