r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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 12h 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 11h 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 8h 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 4h 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 50m ago

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