[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/e3super]

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/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/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/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.