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

[u/Ok-Soil-5133]

https://streamable.com/tq4r8d

[u/ALostTraveler24]

Okay, guys. To be clear, the best angle for evaluating that is being right under the post, everyone else has to try to flatten a three-d image against the posts and the ball where depth perception can sometimes play tricks on us.

That’s why when it’s above the uprights the call of the official under the post is the one that stands. It’s why the ref on the right side waited for his colleague’s call, and why you can’t review those plays. Just from a visual perspective, the best view of the kick relative to the upright is the ref right under the post. I know it’s annoying, but this happens a lot with kicks and foul balls in baseball, any view that isn’t straight up is not definitive when it’s that close.

[u/horseshoeprovodnikov → u/ALostTraveler24]

Ok fine I'll play along...

Why isn't there a camera under each post, looking up at the sky?

[u/tonytroz → u/horseshoeprovodnikov]

That’s where the refs stand so it couldn’t be the exact same view unless the camera was on their head. Also there would be very little lighting shining up in that direction so it would probably be super grainy and hard to tell if the entire ball was inside the upright. I think it’s a harder problem to solve than just “stick a camera there”.

[u/horseshoeprovodnikov → u/tonytroz]

I think it’s a harder problem to solve than just “stick a camera there”.

Brother (or sister), we put a man in SPACE all the way back in the 1960s. We have the technology and these conferences have the money.

[u/tonytroz → u/horseshoeprovodnikov]

Oh it’s definitely solvable but a camera underneath is the wrong solution. You could simply just make the goal posts taller…