Is the HOF voting process broken?
Inside Coverage on the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting and selection process that kept Bill Belichick out of the HOF this cycle. (via Inside Coverage)
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...a lot has been said about the process in which you had to vote for the top three.
We had one voter in Kansas City write a column yesterday saying, "Well, I really think Roger Craig and Kenny Anderson needed to be in, so I didn't vote for Bill."
It seems to me- Right ... that the process is messed up here.
A lot of voters are pissed that Belichick did not make it in.
Mm-hmm.
They themselves are like, "Why did this happen?"
But they did push back on this idea that it was just Spygate.
There was a problem with this three and five.
Voters were sitting there and trying to prioritize in their mind, "Am I prioritizing players over contributors?
Am I prioritizing players over coaches?
Do I believe these players, this is it, like, this is their last shot?"
And I think there was a feeling that maybe we should just vote on all five and do the yes or no, and if all five get in, all five get in.
You're a voter, you're thinking, "Well, nobody else isn't gonna vote for Bill Belichick- Right, right.
-so let me just do the three that I really wanna do."
Mm-hmm, yeah.
It's not gonna be under four-fifths, and enough people do that, along with maybe one or two people who actually wouldn't put him in the top three, for whatever reasons, and all of a sudden you get to at least 11.
