[Chris Marra]

Something to consider is that the video feed you see is also what is projected onto the jumboscreens at events. Specators don't need another (probably smaller) view of the field directly above where the field already is. It would be nice if the webcast could present a different camera view than that, but it is already wonderful that the production crews tolerate letting random high school kids behind the scenes to setup laptops and broadcast everything.

That being said, I know at Boston 2007 the SOAP webcast was getting 4 separate video feeds from the production crew, three of which were raw from the cameras. They were then overlaying their own display (iirc, without a realtime score display) on top of that, and switching between the 4 feeds they had when it didn't make sense to use the arena one.