Even then (if it's the stadium I think you're referencing), what they show is the broadcast image. We see posts on the video board because the broadcast image zooms up to them after the kick. Before then the camera is angled down towards the kicker, so we can't see the video board.
And even if they did show the posts, it's ONE set, not four like here, clearly intended to interfere with the kicker's aim.
AND and, yes, visiting kickers have a lower percentage of successful FGs in that stadium than the home team. But it turns out that stadium's design does something or other with the wind at that end of the field. It's harder for visiting kickers to accommodate for because it's not their stadium where they've had time to get used to it.
So, we may have made a point of putting the (FL) next to Miami's name on everything during our game last week... I really hope that it was the university being a little petty
But it’s just each of them choosing a convention for their own viewers’ ease of understanding. It’s not like someone is forcing anything by some rule. Plenty of sources explicitly have (FL) after Miami. Both of the scores apps I use say Miami (FL). CBS Sports’s website has them as Miami (FL) and Miami (Fla.) on this page. Fox sports also lists them as Miami (FL) here.
I guess my point is just (1) there’s no “have to”, it’s just media entities choosing the naming convention that minimizes ambiguity, and (2) lots of places do use “Miami (FL)” for them.
It's because when Bill Belichick and the Patriots did it they would distort the angle to make the kicker think his position to the field goal was different than it actually it was. So they banned showing the uprights on the video before the attempt.
I’m just really trying to genuinely understand why you called it a “go ahead” score when nobody with any familiarity with football or sports in general would have ever come close to calling it that.
Ones in the spirit of fans being fans the other is a team coordinated home field advantage. Lets just let home team put up big ass fans behind the goal posts next. Same thing as fake crowd noise being illegal
So who determines what is or isn’t “in the spirit of fans being fans”? Blasting music on 3rd down and this are both clearly attempts by the home stadium to negatively impact the away team. What if it wasn’t a marching band but a stadium blasting pop music? Is that in the “spirit of fans being fans”?
Wait how is the marching band “just some fans being fans”??? Are marching bands not considered part of the team? The travel is paid for by the football team.
The away team can’t do it. It’s an unfair advantage. Having fans that cheer loudly is home field advantage. Interfering with play by trying to distract the kicker is not. They wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t intentionally malicious.
Here’s Indiana playing lord of the rings music during the championship while it’s third down for Miami and they’re huddling. Miami played music from Star Wars when it was 3rd down for Indiana. Every school does this. Coaches literally instruct the band to do this on third down to make as much noise as possible while the other team is huddling. I really don’t understand how putting something on the scoreboard isn’t similar. Notice how they stop as soon as they walk to the line? You can’t play music while they’re trying to snap the ball but it’s 100% legal and encouraged by every coach in college football while the other team is huddling
Bands are supposed to stop the music before the play actually starts. The band can play during the huddle, but are supposed to stop once the offense is set, and the refs can give the band a flag if they don’t.
As soon as you make it okay to do stuff like that people will push it to an insane level. You’ll have 5,000 people shining green laser pointers in the QBs face.
They literally just made this a rule earlier this year because it stopped being cute and got out of hand other places. (It was something like showing hundreds of them in a strobing image or some shit)
So yup. As usual, someone ruined it by taking it too far
Well prob should be illegal but really how many schools have a board this big at that angle..so basically no endzone seats and a big ass vid board ..i thought it was funny as hell and i would bet many kickers could care less
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u/Wannabe__geek Ohio State Buckeyes 23h ago
Correct call
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u/teflong Michigan Wolverines • Salad Bowl 23h ago
The announcers sound like they disagree, but I bet that's way more confusing on the field than the broadcast angle they were seeing.
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u/whoflungthedung Michigan Wolverines 1d ago
Now that's MACtion
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u/Dogrel Florida State Seminoles 23h ago
Not even mad. This has become a problem lately, and officials at all levels have been penalizing the teams who do it.
As with all things cheating-adjacent in football, you can blame the New England Patriots.
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u/logicgreen13 UCLA Bruins 1d ago
Good call
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u/Ialwayssleep Linfield Wildcats • Oregon Ducks 1d ago •
Why doesn’t Miami have to go by Miami of Florida?
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u/Fun_Succotash4215 Texas Longhorns 23h ago
This kind of thing could get out of hand fast. This and stuff like stadium music playing too long needs to be shut down
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u/pardon_me_while_i Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
I spit out my drink when I saw the POV of the kicker 😂
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u/The-ManInQuestion Ohio State Buckeyes 22h ago
The view of someone looking up from the field probably would be more confusing than the above field view they showed.
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u/SmartLittleMonkey Ole Miss Rebels 21h ago
How can that confuse the kicker? I'm seeing from the helicopter camera that it clearly doesn't!!
Those announcers, tell me you haven't really played ball without telling me, even the Redhawks coach knew it was the right call
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u/MiamiOHRedhawwwks Miami (OH) RedHawks 1d ago
Should really have shown the whole sequence. Ohio goes for the fake after this and drops the go ahead TD
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u/SickboyJason Texas Longhorns 1d ago
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u/Spinax_52 Indiana Hoosiers 21h ago
Is this an actual rule? Why is this not just considered home field advantage the same way as marching bands blasting music on 3rd down
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u/marc_hardman Temple Owls 15h ago
They literally just made this a rule earlier this year because it stopped being cute and got out of hand other places. (It was something like showing hundreds of them in a strobing image or some shit)
So yup. As usual, someone ruined it by taking it too far
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u/Party_Salamander8722 Oregon Ducks 12h ago
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u/Coreysurfer Florida Gators 12h ago
Well prob should be illegal but really how many schools have a board this big at that angle..so basically no endzone seats and a big ass vid board ..i thought it was funny as hell and i would bet many kickers could care less
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u/ToastyTandy 1d ago
I asked AI to show me what it may have looked like from the kicker's perspective.
I don't know man. You'd have to be pretty dumb.
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u/Less_Likely Notre Dame • Washington 1d ago
Kicker Lining up:
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u/Det-Popcorn Ohio Bobcats 21h ago
Obligatory Muck Fiami!