Guys Do the research into what he says, I have... 1977 USC played Bama October 8th, Notre Dame didn't play no #1 USC that year we played #5 USC on October 22nd. Did he get off to a bad start yea, did we get aggressive right back at him, yea. Did we keep trying to retaliate back and forth back and forth. He isn't just pulling BS outta his ***. How dumb do we look calling for a IP ban on someone who comes in (let alone not a very good start on his part), but im sure he read all the stereotypical things that were said, got offended it happens. Anyway I'm rambling He came in knowing what he is talking about. what he brought was facts and we want to argue.. you can't argue with facts. You can make opinions and points but facts are facts. Lets all be civil and get a clean slate on this.
I don't have to do research. That season was one of many I've followed through the decades. I saw the games. I followed the weekly voting in the polls. I watched the bowl games. Notre Dame was rewarded by the voters for playing and beating soundly the toughest team in the land. Undefeated #1 ranked Texas scored 441 points that season but only 10 against The Irish. Heisman winner Early Campbell ran rough shod over defense all season. ND held him to 116 yds on 29 carries with NO SCORES. Campbell got his yardage between the 20s. He was stifled in the red zone. Meanwhile BOTH Heavens and Ferguson ran for over 100 yds. The game was over midway through the second quarter when ND took a 24-3 lead.
CtrlAltDel will tell you Bama beat up the 9th ranked Buckeyes. They did. What he didn't tell you was the Buckeyes didn't show up for the game. The Buckeyes were headed to the Rose Bowl until the last game of the season when Schembeckler stuck it to Hayes. The deflated Buckeyes though the Sugar Bowl was beneath them. There were grumbles when the bowl bids went out and during bowl week as reported by the media. The poll voters rewarded ND for throttling the best in the land while Bama beat a team that didn't want to be in New Orleans and played like it.
This poster is a troll pure and simple. Shame on you for buying into his crap. He should have been banned for his bald face lie about ND and MSU sitting on the ball in the second half of The Game of The Century. Both teams beat the snot out of each other for 60 minutes. There were mangled players on both sides. ND lost 3 All-Americans to injury but still shut out the 10th ranked Trojans the next week 51-0 with scrubs playing for the injured AA's. The voters were impressed not only that ND could field a team the next week but that they destroyed one of the best teams in the land using key backups with the national title on the line.
He should be banned for trolling the "No Mas No Mas" BS comment about ND not playing in bowl games after 1925. That was a decision made by the ND President for academic reasons not to duck competition as this troll would have you believe. Any serious sports fan who knows the history of college football is aware of that. This troll chose to misrepresent it and you buy his act as "fact". Shame on you!
CtrlAltDel tells you Bama got cheated out of the '66 Championship because the "Northern Media" wanted to punish The Tide for Segregation. He ignores that the Southern voters voted in a block for their regional team. ND which played opponents around the Nation got votes from around the Nation. A Bama player even wrote a book about how Bama was a "victim" in '66. "The Missing Ring"
Bama a "victim in '66, a "victim" in '73, a "victim" in the '75 Orange Bowl, let's face it, whenever they didn't win they were a "victim".
They're 1-5 All-Time against ND. Bear was 0-4.
One of the local stations here in Alabama runs old Bama games under the title of "The Greatest Games in Alabama History". I've probably seen the one Bama win in '86 about a dozen times over the years. ND was 5-6 that year but that's one of Bama's Greatest Games. I contacted the shows producer and suggested they show the '73 Sugar Bowl and '75 Orange Bowl "two of the greatest games in all of college football history". Even Bear Bryant acknowledged those two games as two of the best ever played. Despite the public recognition of those two bowls the producer told he didn't have a tape of those games. I offered him mine. After the pregnant pause, he responded, "we wouldn't show either of those games as we only show games Alabama actually won".
CtrlAltDel wants to perpetuate the myths that Alabama got screwed multiple times by ND's co-conspirators, the media, and that ND ducked competition (No Mas, No Mas).
He's a disingenuous troll.
There actually was a situation where somebody did cry "No Mas, No Mas" in the history of Alabama/ND games. But it wasn't whinned by ND.
Both schools had a home and home series scheduled for the middle of the last decade (yeah they waited under after Holtz was gone to put it together.) But after the NCAA sanctions came down for the illegal recruitment of Albert Means, Bama AD Mal Moore immediately contacted ND about backing out of the series due to "loss of scholarships". Moore was concerned that UA wouldn't be able to man up with ND. ND accepted UA's withdrawal with no cancellation penalty. For those that don't know (or don't want to know) Mal Moore was a former ND assistant football coach under Lou Holtz.
Moore wasn't the first Bama man with ND ties. CtrlAltDel likes to harp on Bama's Rose Bowl days but he neglected to note that Bama's Head Coach Frank Thomas was an ND Man. Played for Rockne and roomed with Gipp. Thomas is considered UA's second greatest coach after Bryant who played for and was mentored by Thomas. Notre Dame had a hand in putting UA on the football map.
Y'all are funny.
