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Missouri University adds to their HOF

Dec 21, 2014

Some of you who are regular visitors to our website know that we will be unveiling in the future a look at each North American franchise and ranking them in order of how they honor their former players and/or contributors. That will not be unveiled until late next year, but the natural progression of that will be to look at the major U.S. Universities and as such whenever one major college Hall of Fame announces a new class you can believe we will be interested.

Missouri University has just announced their latest class, which includes six new members, three of whom are from their Football Team.

The class is led by former Texas born Quarterback, Chase Daniel. Daniel joined the Tigers in 2005, backing up Brad Smith who would later convert to Wide Receiver when he joined the National Football League. After Smith was drafted in 2006, Daniel took over the starting job and threw for 3,527 Yards, a 63.5 Completion Percentage and 28 Touchdowns while taking the team to the Sun Bowl where they suffered a one point defeat to Oregon State.

Daniel would have an even better 2007, where he improved his stats to 4,306 Passing Yards, a 68.2 Passing Percentage and 33 Touchdowns, but more importantly, he took Mizzou to a 12 and 2 record and a Cotton Bowl victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Missouri finished the season ranked at 4, and Daniel was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and finished fourth in Heisman Trophy voting.

The Quarterback would go on to have another stellar year, where as a Senior he would throw for 4,335 Yards, a 72.8 Completion Percentage and 39 Touchdowns. Missouri would win the Alamo Bowl that year over Northwestern and Chase Daniel would set numerous records as a Tiger. He would go undrafted in the NFL, but was able to make the New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs rosters, though he did not see much playing time.

Daniel is joined by one of his teammates, Jeremy Maclin, who played Wide Receiver and was used in Kickoff and Punt Returns by the Tigers from 2006 to 2008. Maclin would be a consensus All-American twice (2007 & 2008) and he would set the NCAA freshman record for All Purpose Yards. In his final year in 2008, Maclin would lead all players in All-Purpose Yards per Game and he would overall in two seasons playing (he was redshirted in 2006) would total 5,609 All Purpose Yards and 33 Touchdowns.

Maclin currently plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, who drafted him 19th overall in 2009.

Daniel and Maclin had another teammate enter the Missouri University Athletic Hall of Fame with Chase Coffman, who played Tight End from 2005 to 2008. Coffman was a football star almost immediately, and in his senior year, he won the John Mackey Award, which is given to the top Tight End in the country. Coffman currently is on the Tennessee Titans roster.

Joining this group is John Dettmer, who played baseball there in the early 1990’s and holds the Strikeouts in a season record. Dettmer would pitch 12 games in the majors, all with the Texas Rangers. Middle Distance Runner, Ashley Patten and Gymnast Alisha Robinson were also announced to the Hall.

The Missouri University Athletic Hall of Fame first opened in 1990.

Hip Hop HOF to break ground soon

Dec 20, 2014

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

Constantly we read from visitors to our website that Rap and Hip Hop have no business in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. While we don’t agree with that (and were legitimately upset that N.W.A. were passed over this year) it looks like there will soon be a physical Hip Hop Hall of Fame that will take root in Harlem, New York.

A fundraiser took place last night with the goal of raising one million dollars to establish a satellite location on 125th Street in 2015 before a permanent location in midtown New York City. The intent is to open that location in 2017, but still keep the headquarters in Harlem.

This is essentially a reboot of the Hall of Fame, which first saw the light of day in 1992 when J.T. Thompson produced the awards show that ran on BET in the 1990’s. There had always been plans to build a Hall of Fame, but plans got shelved as did the award show itself, though Thompson kept the project alive, and it appears to be set to thrive.

The Hall has already acquired pieces of memorabilia which were donated by rap legends such as Eminem, Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, Salt-N-Pepa, Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube, Outkast, Young Jeezy, Common and Afrika Bambaataa.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com are looking forward to see how the Hip Hop Hall of Fame will progress in the upcoming years.

2015 IIHF HOF Class Announced

Dec 19, 2014

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

The International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame has announced their latest class and true to its name, the class represents players from around the world.

This year’s class adds seven new members to the Toronto based Hall, though the ceremony will take place next May in Prague during the 2015 World Hockey Championships.

The headliner is Dominik Hasek, who was just inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Hasek played internationally for the Czech Republic and would take them to the Olympic Gold Medal in 1998. This was no misnomer as the “Dominator” allowed only six goals in the entire competition. Hasek would win a Bronze in the 2006 Olympics and won four medals in the Worlds (silver in 1983 and bronze in 1987, 1988 and 1990).

The Czech Republic has a second representative in this year’s class in Robert Reichel, who was also on the 1998 Olympic Gold Medal Team. Recihel scored the winning shootout goal against Canada in the semi-finals and the longtime captain of the Czech team would also take his country to three Gold Medals in the World Championships in 1996, 2000 and 2001.

Canadian Defenceman, Scott Niedermayer who was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013, joins the two Czech stars. Niedermayer was a two time Olympic champion (2002 & 2010), won Gold at the 2004 World Cup, 2004 World Hockey Championships and the 1991 World Junior Hockey Championships.

Fran Rider was also inducted. She was one of the founders of the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association in 1975 and in 1987 helped organize the 1987 Women’s World Hockey Championship and again in 1990. Without her, Women’s International Hockey would not be as far along as it is today.

A second female was inducted, as Swedish player Maria Rooth was also chosen. Rooth currently is the leading Non-American scorer in Women’s Olympic hockey and was the leader of the biggest upset in women’s hockey when the Swedish team defeated the Americans in 2006. She has an Olympic Silver (2006) and Bronze Medal (2002).

Lucio Topatigh was inducted. Topatigh played his entire professional career in the Italian league and was a long time veteran of the Italian National team.

Monique Scheier-Schneider from Luxembourg will also be inducted. She has served on the IIHF council since 2008 and has been involved in European Hockey since 1992.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the new class for the International Ice Hockey Federation.

2015 RRHOF Class Announced

Dec 16, 2014

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

Well gang, this is our Christmas Day, but the presents that we got from Cleveland have us scratching our collective heads.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have announced the Class of 2015, and we have to admit that based on the nominees we saw this playing out completely different.

The group getting most of the press of the Class, is Green Day, who were entering their first year of eligibility. The punk revival band have been very successful commercially, though have been somewhat polarizing in terms of whether they were influential or not. Saying that, they have performed often in previous induction ceremonies and most people expected Billie Joe and company to get in.

Joan Jett & Thee Blackhearts have also been chosen. There has been a lot of support championing Jett for the Hall, and this could be as close to the Hall as her original (and in our minds far more influential) group the Runaways will get. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has often for the past few years claimed they were looking to induct more women into the Hall, and Jett was as kick ass as it came in terms of female rockers. This selection should not receive any backlash from anyone.

Lou Reed enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a second time, this time for his solo work. Reed was nominated before as a solo act but unlike with the Velvet Underground it took a little longer than his first try to get in. Reed was still considered very influential on his own, and this is a nice touch to honor the man who passed away two years ago.

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble also enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. SRV was a Blues Rock superstar in the 1980’s, and though he did not exactly break new ground, his music was a gateway for many Hard Rock fans to discover other genres that they had previously ignored. Stevie Ray Vaughn died in a plane crash in 1990.

A pleasant surprise was the induction of Bill Withers, who had multiple hits in the 1970’s crossing over from Jazz, R&B, Soul and Disco. This was the first time that Withers had been nominated though he had been eligible for nearly twenty years. Frankly, it is his performance we are looking forward to the most at the ceremony next year.

The sixth and final performer inductee was one that we honestly did not think we would ever see. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band crossed racial lines in the 1960’ and while an excellent band with a solid Blues-Rock sound, with all due respect to the band, had they never gotten in, it would not have a generated much of a reaction from anyone.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also inducted two more musical acts, though in different categories.

The “5” Royales, a group that predates Elvis, brought Gospel, Blues and Jazz to their vocal harmonies and was chosen to be inducted as an Early Influence. Historically speaking, along with the Dominoes and Johnny Ace, this was a great choice and one that has been a perceived snub by Rock and Roll historians for decades.

In our mind the most bizarre induction is Ringo Starr, who was given this year’s Award for Musical Excellence, which was previously the Sideman Category. The change as explained by Joel Peserman, the President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation allows them “flexibility to recognize people who might not ordinarily get recognized.”

Somehow being a former Beatle doesn’t seem like someone who could fall through the cracks and this selection feels a little crowbarred. Well, he’ll “get by with a little help from (his) friends.”

These selections of course mean that multiple finalists were not chosen.

This includes Kraftwerk, the synth-pop pioneers from Germany who were ranked #2 on our 2015 list. The Smiths, War, Nine Inch Nails, N.W.A., The Spinners, The Marvelettes and Chic (who have been nominated nine times) did not get in.

With the exception of Green Day, none of the bands chosen had any real commercial success in the last 15 years, or really anything critical of note. Considering that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has made rumblings in recent years of shortening the eligibility from 25 to 20 years, this Class doesn’t reflect any belief that as with the exception of Green Day, all other acts had a substantial wait to get inducted.

We have been open here at Notinhalloffame.com when we are pleased with a Hall of Fame Class, but we can’t say that we are pleased with this group as a whole.

The debate as to should be in Cleveland will likely intensify immediately, and we are eagerly awaiting your thoughts.

We will also be unveiling our 2016 Rock List by late January and we will be soliciting your opinions on the new entries soon.