Covid-19 times remain maddeningly dangerous and unpredictable, especially in a nation led by those averse to speaking truth.
Still, we can safely project the number of spectators attending ACC contests this coming basketball season will set modern, blizzard-condition lows, even supposing spectators beyond the involved teams, game officials and facility management staffs are allowed inside the arenas. TV talkers may not even be on hand to broadcast the action their networks pay to provide; several years ago ESPN mastered live coverage of games from outside the building, the commentators back in a studio in Connecticut.
So we may have to wait another year or more before we see, for instance, the overt impact on fan enthusiasm of the coaching change at Wake Forest, where five of the last six seasons and eight of the last 10 were duds competitively and in terms of attendance.