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CrimsonTitles

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Seriously, do we need to have the refs?
With so many camera views, machine learning should be able to process the videos and make a more accurate call, according to the rules it was trained on.
Sure, it takes the human factor out of the game, and fans will always be unhappy about something, but that would be an unbiased and technically correct call
I don't think they should go full AI. There needs to be at least some sort of human element, because there will be circumstances where it's needed. Keep the refs and use botn. AI can verify everything, and then the refs can still use their own judgement when necessary. It would be way better than what we have now.
 

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I don't think they should go full AI. There needs to be at least some sort of human element, because there will be circumstances where it's needed. Keep the refs and use botn. AI can verify everything, and then the refs can still use their own judgement when necessary. It would be way better than what we have now.
If AI starts actually calling penalties then every play would be flagged.
 

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I don't think they should go full AI. There needs to be at least some sort of human element, because there will be circumstances where it's needed. Keep the refs and use botn. AI can verify everything, and then the refs can still use their own judgement when necessary. It would be way better than what we have now.
There will ALWAYS be some human element involved...😎
 

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Once we get to ASI.....basically sentient AI....won't matter will it.
 

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And all that matters because....why?

Seriously, you're absolutely right. But in actual practice, the calls and no-calls are so variable it's clear that nobody knows what targeting is. Not even (or maybe especially) the refs.

Add the clear influence of the position played by the guy receiving the hit, and you might as well have a drunk chimpanzee making the call.

As I've said many times before, the game is so much faster and the athleticism so much greater than in the past, I cut the on-field refs some slack. But every on-field targeting call is reviewed. And targeting is one of the few penalties that can be imposed from the box even if the refs on the field didn't call it.

So I simply cannot understand why the enforcement is so variable when review officials literally have a dozen camera angles, all with frame-by-frame capability, and as much time as they want to make the call.
This is the thing that has ruined the game the most for me. It's infuriating!
 
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And all that matters because....why?

Seriously, you're absolutely right. But in actual practice, the calls and no-calls are so variable it's clear that nobody knows what targeting is. Not even (or maybe especially) the refs.

Add the clear influence of the position played by the guy receiving the hit, and you might as well have a drunk chimpanzee making the call.

As I've said many times before, the game is so much faster and the athleticism so much greater than in the past, I cut the on-field refs some slack. But every on-field targeting call is reviewed. And targeting is one of the few penalties that can be imposed from the box even if the refs on the field didn't call it.

So I simply cannot understand why the enforcement is so variable when review officials literally have a dozen camera angles, all with frame-by-frame capability, and as much time as they want to make the call.
It is impossible to understand why reviewers in B'ham can't bring some consistency to reviewable play calls. Pondering that I realized that Major League Baseball has umpires who cannot call Balls and Strikes with any consistency. They put up with it even with the money involved.
 

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At some point, we're going to close this thread. Seeing that it is the offseason we'll keep it open a little longer so people can "get it all out". But once this is closed this topic will be "closed" as well. It can be taken to the professional sports board but the days of discussing Jalen Milroe on the college board (in this capacity) are numbered.
 

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