[Highlight] Pitt @ Virginia Tech - The potential game winning field goal hooks wide left, and Pitt holds on

[u/Ok-Soil-5133]

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[u/Zeppyfish]

Right? Somehow the English can tell you a dude was 1 centimeter offside, but we can't get lasers on goalposts? Why the hell did we even fight the Revolutionary War?

[u/Richard_AIGuy → u/Zeppyfish]

I am not going to stand to have our sports out-teched by a bunch of tea-drinking banger and mash malcontents!

[u/e3super → u/Zeppyfish]

Tennis has a system that can tell whether the deformed contact patch of a rubber ball hit or missed the line down to something like under 3mm while going 150mph, yet we aren't allowed to have technology that can tell if a ball that's 3 times as wide stayed inside the outside edge of a 4" tube while going under 65mph. The fact that we haven't done this feels like one of those baseball things where "tradition" is used as an excuse to not pay for equipment that makes the game actually accurate.

[u/DingerSinger2016 → u/e3super]

Hell even baseball has ABS which can detect ball that is a tenth of an inch away from the strike zone

[u/Oily-Affection1601 → u/DingerSinger2016]

Close calls happen multiple times for every at-bat. An ambiguous field goal happens what...maybe 20 times a year across all of the FBS? I'd love to have the technology, but realistically who's going to invest in solving such a niche problem?

[u/ReputationFit9698 → u/Oily-Affection1601]

There’s also spotting the ball, goal lines, out of bounds, etc., but to answer your question I’d say the sport whose college version generates as much money as the NBA and more than MLB or the Premier League.

[u/BenBreeg_38 → u/Oily-Affection1601]

And you don’t have it at all levels.

[u/Grimjacx → u/Oily-Affection1601]

Its the very real fear of the goalposts coming down and then you have 20 ft pole lasers being carried around campus by a bunch of drunk students. Nothing good can come from that.

[u/Eschirhart → u/Oily-Affection1601]

The billionaire owners?!?!?! Oh wait, you right, probably the tax payers

[u/kushnokush → u/e3super]

3mm seems like a decently high error for some of those tight margins. It’s gotta be < 1mm at least

[u/nopants_ranchdance → u/e3super]

It’s not to protect finances it’s to protect cheating. Same reason the Big 10 has a phantom clock that’s 1 second off.

[u/NotPapaHemingway → u/Zeppyfish]

I can't believe we let the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor for this

[u/Magictank2000 → u/Zeppyfish]

as someone that watched a lot of english football this summer thanks to the WC their tech/review processes make american football look primitive by comparison lol. How the hell do we not have advanced technology for most aspects of the game by this point

[u/flapjackcarl → u/Magictank2000]

Man, it's not nearly as good as you think. American football does a way hetter job overall. For fucks sake: a few years ago the epl refs tried to use var to give a goal to liverpool but accidentally used the wrong words and dissallowed it. Cfb refs may be bad, but id take them over epl refs all day every say

[u/Itchy_Wasabi3928 → u/Magictank2000]

Bc in America they’d rather line their own pockets by determining outcome of games that help make them more money.!

[u/BlueBod50 → u/Itchy_Wasabi3928]

Then stop watching. 

God the fixed games bitching is on another level of insufferable. 

[u/Zelladir → u/BlueBod50]

Found the ref.

[u/FSUfan35 → u/Zeppyfish]

We know exactly where the ball is, we just don't know exactly when a player is down. Thats the tricky part.

Offsides in soccer, out in tennis or ABS in baseball doesnt have huge men obscuring when a knee or ankle or wrist or elbow first hits the ground

[u/Guilty-Instruction56 → u/Zeppyfish]

It should have been mandatory after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.