athermalCouldn't they just move the y-position of the timer? I don't know if its that easy, seems like it would work though.
Surprisingly, it is an incredible pain to move this thing around without screwing up other elements on the HUD.
LangeThink about it this way. There's already a lot of visual clutter in a TF2 cast. Does removing the timer, and thereby minimizing clutter, benefit us more than knowing exactly how fast the demoman has rolled out? IMO it does. The timer is not necessary (except for gpit obviously).
It's not necessarily that there's a ton of information to be displayed in a cast, it's just that there's no way to get stuff on or off the screen once the game is live there is no way to adjust graphics for stats, UNLESS someone is assisting the Cameraman by editing the graphics and letting him know what is ready to be displayed. - hinthint ;) -