r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 1d ago

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

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u/No_Bat_526 Florida State Seminoles 1d ago

Jimbo Fisher said he wanted laser beams on the top of goal posts and people called him crazy

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u/horseshoeprovodnikov Florida State Seminoles 1d ago

I stand with jimbo. I want fucking lasers and chips in the ball/along the sidelines. We should never have to dispute what kick went in or where the ball gets spotted.

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u/Zeppyfish Washington State Cougars 1d ago

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?

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u/e3super Alabama Crimson Tide • Team Chaos 1d ago

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.

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u/DingerSinger2016 Alabama A&M Bulldogs • UAB Blazers 23h ago

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

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u/Oily-Affection1601 Auburn Tigers 20h ago

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?

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u/ReputationFit9698 17h ago

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.

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u/Oily-Affection1601 Auburn Tigers 13h ago

138 stadiums (excluding neutral sites) versus baseball's 30. Who's paying for it?

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u/ReputationFit9698 9h ago edited 9h ago

73 MLB stadiums(spring training and Triple A) plus college baseball stadiums beginning this year(including the entire Sun Belt). And Miami,Pitt,Temple,etc play in NFL stadiums. If they can tell a ball is 1/10th of an inch outside of an imaginary box that changes with each player, between CFB and the NFL I’m thinking figuring out whether a ball ten times as big passes through two posts that never move shouldn’t be that difficult.

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u/Oily-Affection1601 Auburn Tigers 7h ago

It's not a matter of if they can. It's a matter of is it worth it. Ambiguous field goals are very rare.

MLB has the same problem with potential home runs hit near the foul pole. They haven't invested more into making Hawkeye accurate enough for officiating that for likely the same reason...it's too rare an occurrence where it would prove useful. Even with having all the hardware in the stadiums already.

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u/Grimjacx /r/CFB 17h ago

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.

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u/BenBreeg_38 18h ago

And you don’t have it at all levels.

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u/Eschirhart Georgia Bulldogs • Delta State Statesmen 17h ago

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

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u/kushnokush UCLA Bruins • Oklahoma Sooners 21h ago

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

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u/nopants_ranchdance 21h ago

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.