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Here are a few more markers off the top of my head by nd71

- wins vs end of season top ten ranked teams; not competing or grinding out losses (this is where we are at with no chance of it ending going forward with the current bums ND calls its leaders)
- top five CFB school with alums as NFL players earning a check; this by itself would guarantee Tier I status IMO
- rare (let's say less than 20%) is the blowout loss to other top ten teams
- consistent top ten finishes (3 out of every four or five years)
- top five recruiting classes (3 out of every five years); no outside the top ten ranked classes
- not being in the conversation but directing it and being THE topic and example of excellence
- 90% winning record vs Tier II teams
- HC part of as well as being a coaching tree not the scraggly assed shrubs we've had since the 90s


NB "Tiers" were an NDN RH metric used long ago in the aughts to discuss the crapulence of ND's downward sliding degree of its football schedules. The old NDN RH hands will have more to say on this issue.