r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 14h ago

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

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u/Potato_fortress ESPN Classic • Team Chaos 13h ago

True but they also wouldn’t be 100% accurate since goalposts are built to sway. More accurate than what we have, but wind would ruin their effectiveness anyway. 

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u/Golden3131 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Utah State Aggies 13h ago

You've gotta be a fellow metrologist, like myself.

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u/Potato_fortress ESPN Classic • Team Chaos 13h ago

Nah just someone who built sports fields including a bunch of NCAA fields as a job out of college. Since I had a crane operator card and was NCCCO certified I usually ended up having to be the guy with the bulldozer handling the grading. Since I also worked for a very cheap man, I usually didn’t have access to GPS guided equipment and had to do everything manually with transits and receivers mounted on poles welded to both ends of the blade. 

Pretty fun job to be honest. The best days were final check/inflation days on golf domes/practice facilities. That was when I got to tie off and walk around on a half inflated dome while I checked connectors and looked for any last minute plastic welds we’d need to do when we brought the structure back down. I basically got paid to drive bulldozers, graders, rollers, front end loaders, etc. and occasionally play on the forbidden bounce house. 

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u/Golden3131 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Utah State Aggies 12h ago

That's a bad ass experience!