Night king
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
| Location: | Sylacauga, Al |
| Biography: | UA grad so don’t question my loyalty |
| Interests: | Bama football |
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| Number of Posts: | 35 |
| Registered on: | 10/25/2018 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Why not Nebraska?
Posted by Night king on 10/31/20 at 4:49 am
Yep. Lived in Nebraska for 6 years and all of the Nebraska fans thought the would rule the BIG 10. At the CWS the year that they joined the BIG 10 they had a bunch of Beer Gardens and bars rewarding BIG 10 championship tickets off as door prizes.
Nebraska and their fans think they are a top 10 p...
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re: VOLS from 1989-2004
Posted by Night king on 10/23/20 at 4:34 am
The Vols are suffering for mostly the same reasons Nebraska is suffering. The lack of great in state recruiting and being surrounded by a bunch of teams with great instate recruiting. They require an ace national recruiter with a competent staff. But even then it is unlikely they have a decade of gr...
re: I still think Georgia’s missing piece is a coordinator (or 2)
Posted by Night king on 10/23/20 at 4:27 am
Georgia is missing a modern quarterback. It wouldn’t matter if they hired Kiffin, Sark, or Brady they would still lose to a high powered offense without a competent passer. Alabama found this out in 2016 and much of 2017. Had they had Justin Fields last Saturday they would’ve probably won. I have n...
re: Does Jalen Hurts Transfer
Posted by Night king on 12/3/18 at 7:59 pm
I think there were rumors that Cristobal is interested in him at Oregon. ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 6:24 pm
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/sd-sp-countdown-1984-holiday-bowl-byu-national-title-1125-story.html%3foutputType=amp
They tried to get a Top 5 matchup but too many folks wanted that big bowl deal, that includes Oklahoma.
FWIW bowl Tie ins don’t mean a team has to accept a deal, on...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 6:03 pm
From 04-present Bama was eligible to be in consideration for a national championship.
1993 Auburn was not allowed to be considered to being a major Poll national champion.
Two different things. ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 5:47 pm
Nah try again. They were offered an opportunity to play in the holiday bowl, but Switzer chose to go to Orange Bowl.
Holiday bowl extended offers to both Washington and Oklahoma that year. Bowl tieins have been ignored before. ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 5:43 pm
1993 Auburn couldn’t even be on TV because Pat Dye tried to keep “it on down home” with multiple sports. Auburn was banned from the postseason and with that banned from NC consideration.
2009 Bama served their postseason ban in 02 and 03 but sanctions remained.
Different set of circumstances...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 5:08 pm
1984 BYU got most of their claim because they beat #3 Pittsburgh (at the time), and because Oklahoma and Washington ducked at playing them in the bowls. BYU could only play in the Holiday Bowl and OU and Washington were both given the option to taking a huge bowl reward loss to play BYU in the Holid...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 4:59 pm
What Alabama title did they claim under probation?
If you are saying 09 then yes ON RECRUITING PROBATION, but that wasn’t on BOWL and POSTSEASON BAN. Both 1984 Florida and 1993 Auburn were on postseason bans and weren’t eligible for primary poll National Championships. Big difference.
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re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 3:16 pm
Then you get into the Boise and Utah non claims.
Personally I think the most BS claim of all time never gets talked about.... BYU 1984. I think most people are too fixated on devaluing Bear Bryant’s success... okay Nick Saban and Alabama still is owning everyone even if you only give Bear 3 NCs ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 3:11 pm
I’ve said many times that I wish we wouldn’t claim 1941. If we were to claim a 40’s championship it should be 1945, but I think it would look worse because Army claims it.
But 1984 Florida, 1993 Auburn, and 2012 Ohio St were all on probation. Alabama doesn’t claim 2002 as SECW champs because we ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 2:03 pm
It’s funny that Georgia Tech has more legitimate claims than Georgia ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 2:02 pm
Auburn and Florida claiming 84 and 93 would be like Ohio State claiming 2012. ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 1:09 pm
If Auburn wants to claim 2004 or 1983 I’m sure most Bama fans wouldn’t whine about it because we know they were screwed in both cases.
But Auburn will never claim 2004 because they would owe Tubberville a crap ton of money if they did....
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 1:04 pm
Well the 1973 ND game was basically for the AP National Championship so I think it meant way more.
But why is it relevant?
The biggest problem with the Poll era is that it rarely matched #1 vs #2 against each other. I mean hell, only 3 out the 6 national championship bouts Miami played in...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 12:02 pm
Well there lies the problem with some of the NCs awarded in the polling era. Ole Miss should have 1962 and Bama should have 1966, but voters kept them out for political reasons ( look at governors being jackasses).
As much as many disagree, the BCS solved many problems because it gave 3 entities...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 11:54 am
The funny thing is if Alabama used the Massey poll like UCF did, then Alabama would’ve be awarded the 2016 NC even with a loss to Clemson... ND would also have 2012. ...
re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 11:51 am
The only dubious one is 41. A lot of fans of other schools try to throw shade on 64,73 and 78 because we lost the bowl game (64 and 73) and 78 because we lost to USC in the regular season. But again the AP, UPI, or Coaches poll awarded Bama NC. All were credible and recognized services.
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re: Why are some schools' National Championship "claims" more valid than others
Posted by Night king on 11/8/18 at 11:31 am
Well you have Notre Dame to thank for that.
Revisionist thinking doesn’t change the fact NCs were awarded pre bowl season back then because Notre Dame was too good to play in bowl games from 1926-1970. ...
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