To me, the recruiting battles always stick out. The non-tourney games tend to fade away from my memory unless something wacky happens, but I always can recall where I was when a certain player committed/committed elsewhere. How many games do you remember from the season Hodge was recruited? Yet, we all tell stories about that recruitment like we were in some sort of war together and remember every detail.
With the games, it’s either a loss(total meltdown, we suck, will never win a game again, might have to disband program, etc) or a win(somewhat happy but usually nitpicky as well). With recruiting, and I’m talking about the big fish here, it seems like the board as a whole is all on the same page. I think the recruiting battles are underrated times for the board and personally I wouldn’t miss it.