It was an inferiority complex to Notre Dame that allowed some baws to go off the rails and getting all AOC with titles. “Free titles for err’body”.

Looking back, they wish they never did “the reach”. It looks petty. It looks desperate.

But they had no clue that Saban would take them on this run. An epic run.

Also, Notre Dame looked like they could pluck whoever they wanted and they had the media on their side for the polls.

So the time was now. They wanted to be relevant. And look at the aTm boys who post here. Does forcing relevancy look cool to you? No.

They wanted to be in the conversation about #of titles. Bear was dead, Perkins didn’t kept the ball rolling. They had to act.....”Hey, we actually might have won the title that year. Is is illegal to claim it? No! It’s ours, now.”

They look silly now for doing it, because the credibility was siphoned when they made an egregious reach . If everyone used the same criteria as bama used, they would be two or three schools each year for the 130 of the last 150 years.....or 300+ claims to national titles.

Thank goodness everyone else just took what the major, non-obscure polls gave them.

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Posted by TideFaninFl

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Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:18 am to dstone12

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It was an inferiority complex to Notre Dame that allowed some baws to go off the rails and getting all AOC with titles. “Free titles for err’body”.

Looking back, they wish they never did “the reach”. It looks petty. It looks desperate.

But they had no clue that Saban would take them on this run. An epic run.

Also, Notre Dame looked like they could pluck whoever they wanted and they had the media on their side for the polls.

So the time was now. They wanted to be relevant. And look at the aTm boys who post here. Does forcing relevancy look cool to you? No.

They wanted to be in the conversation about #of titles. Bear was dead, Perkins didn’t kept the ball rolling. They had to act.....”Hey, we actually might have won the title that year. Is is illegal to claim it? No! It’s ours, now.”

They look silly now for doing it, because the credibility was siphoned when they made an egregious reach . If everyone used the same criteria as bama used, they would be two or three schools each year for the 130 of the last 150 years.....or 300+ claims to national titles.

Thank goodness everyone else just took what the major, non-obscure polls gave them.