Marshall Morgan may study finance as a student at Georgia, but that won’t keep him from one day playing with lasers.
“I just think that in the future after the whole college football thing and hopefully my dreams of career after that, I’m going to come up with some kind of laser that shoots straight up [from a goal post] that makes it a little easier to judge,” Morgan said.
With the Bulldogs ahead 7-0 against the Gators, Morgan approached the 22-yard line to attempt a 39-yard field goal nearing the end of the first quarter. He watched as the ball sailed high above the left upright. He thought the kick cleared the space within the goal posts, and he thought wrong.
“I thought it was good from where we were but the ref called it no good,” Morgan said. “He has a better view on it, so I guess it was no good.”
Officials cannot review field-goal attempts during which the ball travels above either of the uprights. That didn’t keep Morgan from watching the kick “plenty of times” after Georgia’s 38-20 loss to Florida on Saturday.
“It’s the same every time,” he said, dragging out the word “every” as if he had sat pushing the rewind button 100 times for the better part of a Sunday afternoon.
The missed attempt withheld what would’ve been a 10-point lead from the Bulldogs, and the Gators followed up with 31 unanswered points.
Morgan saw nothing from the 22 mph winds in Jacksonville at kickoff on Saturday afternoon that caused him to favor one side of the field over the other, but did say the gusts were strong enough to concern him.
“It’s kind of weird when it’s that swirly, normally it’s just a gust straight one way or the other,” Morgan said. “But when you see one flag going one way and one flag going straight, you’re like, what do you do?”
Georgia’s game against Florida came on the first day of the final month of hurricane season, but Morgan, a Fort Lauderdale native, did his best not to overcompensate for the wind and said he trusted it. Even so, he’d like to see some changes made to how close field goals are called. You know, like lasers.
He said he has some engineer friends with some some inventing experience, and joked that he’d approach the Frix family with the idea — former Bulldogs long snapper Ty Frix left UGA with a degree in bio-medical engineering.
“I can maybe help sell it.”
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