People just do NOT like the Guy?
He certainly ain’t winning now in North Carolina Football…
Actually?
Hasn’t been winning for quite a while….
He DID win along the way in New England and elsewhere….
Maybe he outta Smile once and while?
They get down to who did and possibly who did NOT vote for the coach and the Hal;l of Fame process below?…
The Bill Belichick Hall of Fame snub continues to resonate, which continues to underscore how ridiculous it all is.
One thing that remains unclear is how close Belichick came to getting in. Was it close? Or was it a blowout? The answer possibly has emerged.
In the middle of a column from Gerry Dulac of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in which he both defends a deeply flawed process and insists that no transparency is owed to the public, an intriguing nugget is buried.
From Dulac: “To be elected, a candidate has to receive at least 80% of the votes, or, in this instance, 40 of the 50. Belichick, according to a published report, did not. He received 39.”
Because Dulac also explains that, if none of the five candidates who were lumped into a nonsensical enshrinement Royal Rumble (Belichick, Robert Kraft, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig, L.C. Greenwood) appeared on 80 percent of the pick-three-and-only-three ballots, the one with the most votes would get in….
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The Associated Press now discloses all votes for the various awards to be announced on Thursday. The Hall of Fame should do the same. In an age with far too little honesty and transparency, it’s even more important to ditch the you-don’t-need-to-know attitude on anything and everything for which there’s no valid reason to not know. Especially in situations where the promise of complete secrecy for voters can lead to unfair results.
If all 50 voters knew when they picked three of the five candidates that, eventually, their selections would be disclosed, they’d factor in the reality that they’d have no choice but to defend not putting Belichick at the top of the list.
Note….
I AM a long time NY Giants/NY Mets fan……
I suffer….
image…Bleacher Report….
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