Michigan 13, Western Michigan 12

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Dkayak
To @ChiefGritty ’s point, football has never been measured with this sort of precision. Does anyone see the irony in measuring distance with chains and spotting balls by visual memory while squinting at video to decide whether to overturn a fractional second in timing discrepancy? It’s incongruent. If we really want to go down the precision road, it’s technically possible.

Record time to tenth of a second. Start and stop the clock assisted by audio and visual sensors, but be sure to correct for the distance from the whistle to the sensor, adjusting for the speed of sound. Is there something better than a whistle though? Human error! Can’t have that, so more work is needed. Some sort of AI video bot replacing officials? I’m sure even a crude video bot would have flagged that egregious face mask! Distances aren’t nearly precise enough for this brave new game. We could spot the ball based on video replays or maybe even GPS. Surveying with GPS is now accurate to 1/4”, so why not football? A century ago surveyors literally measured distance with chains, noting the number of chain links on plats.

However, this new game would be a sterile joke. We saw a faked glimpse of it last week, with officials pretending the clocks are operated with enough precision to overturn a call hinging on one second (probably less) at the end of the game. Does anyone really want to go further down this road? It doesn’t enhance the sport.
 
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JSpence
ChiefGritty said:
And I get that on some level the Zaprudering showing the in-stadium reality to be at worst unclear, arguably supporting the call, and very very clearly showing that the NBC replay was not aligned with the stadium clock makes the case for unprecedented action to overturn the result much weaker.
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What video we have facing the opposite end zone doesn't seem to support that, but it's impossible to entirely rule that out on the evidence we've got.
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I'd like to know what you're saying here, because you seem to be casting doubt on the facts. Do you think that, as of this morning, we don't know for a certainty that there was time left on multiple clocks visible in the stadium?
 
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sbillini
JSpence said:
I'd like to know what you're saying here, because you seem to be casting doubt on the facts. Do you think that, as of this morning, we don't know for a certainty that there was time left on multiple clocks visible in the stadium?
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He’s sucking you in too friend. I’m telling ya, you won’t get a straight answer! 😜


When I straight asked if he thought the correct call was made but for the wrong reasons, I was told that he wouldn’t be drawn into such a ridiculous question 🤷
 
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STLflyinIllini
Fly Illini Fly! said:
How about Western Michigan defends one last Hail Mary, and we don’t have to talk about any of this?

They even called a timeout. They put six guys in the box, so it basically meant 5 on 5 in the end zone.
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you sound like the Michigan fan at my work. Also said other coaching staffs shouldn't have allowed Harbaugh to cheat and other schools should have given Chris Weber 230k and a car.
 
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JSpence
STLflyinIllini said:
you sound like the Michigan fan at my work. Also said other coaching staffs shouldn't have allowed Harbaugh to cheat and other schools should have given Chris Weber 230k and a car.
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Even if it feels gross, it's not victim-blaming to wish out loud that they would have done that. We all wish they would have.

Now we've got people so wrapped around the axle that they're happy to see the NCAA come out with the guidance (or rules? or protocol? or suggestions?) that facts are secondary to appearances. These people in charge had multiple obvious solutions immediately available to them (ALL-22 including a clock, using the cop-out NFL rule, etc.) and surely could have come up with something even better. Instead, they chose to straight up imply that the clock DOES matter but it doesn't need to be CORRECT.

It's unreal to me that in our desperate bargaining to have an epic loss thrown back on Michigan, we can't - with a whole week to think about it - collectively walk back some egregiously shortsighted rationale. Can we not realize how pi**ed we'd be if our team were denied a goal-to-go down for a win because a clock wasn't quite stopped in time and the B1G just lets it go because of a "should" statement in a memo? For the life of me, I never thought a fanbase so familiar with screw jobs would be tripling down on the virtues of legalizing more screw jobs.
 
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STLflyinIllini
JSpence said:
Even if it feels gross, it's not victim-blaming to wish out loud that they would have done that. We all wish they would have.

Now we've got people so wrapped around the axle that they're happy to see the NCAA come out with the guidance (or rules? or protocol? or suggestions?) that facts are secondary to appearances. These people in charge had multiple obvious solutions immediately available to them (ALL-22 including a clock, using the cop-out NFL rule, etc.) and surely could have come up with something even better. Instead, they chose to straight up imply that the clock DOES matter but it doesn't need to be CORRECT.

It's unreal to me that in our desperate bargaining to have an epic loss thrown back on Michigan, we can't - with a whole week to think about it - collectively walk back some egregiously shortsighted rationale. Can we not realize how pi**ed we'd be if our team were denied a goal-to-go down for a win because a clock wasn't quite stopped in time and the B1G just lets it go because of a "should" statement in a memo? For the life of me, I never thought a fanbase so familiar with screw jobs would be tripling down on the virtues of legalizing more screw jobs.
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it was a bad call. there was not undisputable evidence to reverse. The fact that it was scUM obviously makes it more disgusting, but the call should not have been made. Just so happens that the blue blood gets the call and little brother gets screwed, as is always the case with Michigan.
Had it been the other way around, WMU would not have received another play, and everyone knows it.
 
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ChiefGritty
JSpence said:
Do you think that, as of this morning, we don't know for a certainty that there was time left on multiple clocks visible in the stadium?
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Dunno about multiple. The end zone behind the play looks pretty darned clear that it hadn't hit zeroes yet.
 
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Dkayak
JSpence said:
For the life of me, I never thought a fanbase so familiar with screw jobs would be tripling down on the virtues of legalizing more screw jobs.
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It’s because screwups should be randomly distributed IF they’re just poor officiating, but these “errors” clearly favor the favored teams. Many of us simply want to see screwups affect all teams comparably, so this was one small opportunity for Michigan to feel what their opponents so frequently experience.

Tell us when you last saw Michigan adversely affected by a bad call in any significant way?
 
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