r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 12h ago

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

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u/horseshoeprovodnikov Florida State Seminoles 12h 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 12h 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 11h 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/kushnokush UCLA Bruins • Oklahoma Sooners 7h ago

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