Anyone know why they don’t just make it standard at all levels of football to have a camera in the plane of the end zone line, vertically straight up?
Drives me nuts during a goal-line review to hear commentators talking about whether the ball broke the plane or not, or if a knee went down before the ball broke the plane. Seems like that really shouldn’t even need to be a discussion if the camera was in-line with the goal line and time-synched to cams at other angles.
Otherwise, you have to subjectively determine where the ball is in three dimensional space, from a vantage point somewhere else in that three-dimensional space. Too many angles, measurements, and other variables to factor in and too hard to do in your head anyway. Why not just eliminate all of that? Wouldn’t it be easier to watch a time synched feed of two videos, with one zoomed in on a knee on the frame it touches the ground and the other clearly showing within a pixel, whether the tip of the ball crossed the line?
That recent drive was an example. The difference wouldn’t have really mattered in this case because Purdue clearly didn’t make it. But still - the replay wasn’t in-line with the goal line. Maybe the officials have access to a better angle, but if so, it would be nice if they shared that angle with audiences too.
Drives me nuts during a goal-line review to hear commentators talking about whether the ball broke the plane or not, or if a knee went down before the ball broke the plane. Seems like that really shouldn’t even need to be a discussion if the camera was in-line with the goal line and time-synched to cams at other angles.
Otherwise, you have to subjectively determine where the ball is in three dimensional space, from a vantage point somewhere else in that three-dimensional space. Too many angles, measurements, and other variables to factor in and too hard to do in your head anyway. Why not just eliminate all of that? Wouldn’t it be easier to watch a time synched feed of two videos, with one zoomed in on a knee on the frame it touches the ground and the other clearly showing within a pixel, whether the tip of the ball crossed the line?
That recent drive was an example. The difference wouldn’t have really mattered in this case because Purdue clearly didn’t make it. But still - the replay wasn’t in-line with the goal line. Maybe the officials have access to a better angle, but if so, it would be nice if they shared that angle with audiences too.