Not in Hall of Fame - About Not in Hall of Fame

Who We Are

Welcome to Not in Hall of Fame, the premier digital hub dedicated to analyzing, celebrating, and debating the greatest achievements in sports, music, and pop culture.

Our mission is simple: If it belongs in a Hall of Fame—or has been criminally snubbed by one—you will find it analyzed here.

What started as a passionate project to track the athletes and artists left on the outside looking in has grown into a massive statistical and historical archive. From exhaustive breakdowns of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL Hall of Fame eligibles to deep-dive rankings of the Top 50 players in every major franchise's history, we look past the plaque to examine the true legacy of sports and culture. Beyond the field, we track the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, WWE, NASCAR, country music, and modern pop culture trends.

Through our comprehensive analytical lists, daily blogs, and a growing network of specialized sports and culture podcasts, our team offers unmatched depth for die-hard fans who love a good Hall of Fame debate.

Meet Our Team

Kirk Buchner – Owner & "The Committee Chairman"

Kirk is the driving force, owner, and operator behind Not in Hall of Fame. Known to our community as "The Committee Chairman," Kirk directs our content strategy, anchors our flagship podcast discussions, and keeps a watchful eye on every major sports hall of fame ballot.

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Twitter: @notinhalloffame
Youtube: @Notinhalloffame

Theodore Hildebrandt – Webmaster & Digital Director

Theodore keeps the engine running under the hood. As the site's webmaster, he handles technical development, site performance, and multimedia integration, ensuring our massive database of sports analytics and podcast episodes remains seamless and accessible for our global audience.

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Evan Nolan – Host & Co-Creator (The Buck Stops Here)

Evan started out as the editor of the Not In Hall of Fame NASCAR list. As an essential voice across the Not In Hall of Fame network, Evan brings sharp insight, statistical rigor, and a deep passion for sports history to our flagship audio and video productions. As the long-time co-host of Not In: All In, Evan helps anchor our major sports debates, analyzing Hall of Fame resumes and breaking down the finest margins separating snubs from legends.

Twitter: @2ndhandburrito

Chris Mouradian – Co-Host & Sports Analyst

Chris is a core member of our multimedia team, offering encyclopedic sports knowledge and engaging commentary across our podcast lineup. Whether debating historical era adjustments or evaluating modern-day eligible athletes, Chris's analysis helps contextualize the numbers for fans across every major sport.

"Longhorn" Dave Whitlock – Contributor & Sports Specialist

Bringing a distinct Texas perspective to the crew, "Longhorn" Dave is our go-to expert for collegiate sports history, regional athletic legacies, and the deep pipelines that feed professional halls of fame. His regular insights enrich our cross-platform discussions on what truly defines a legendary career.

The NIHOF Committees & Crews

Behind our core hosts sits a dedicated, global collective of sports historians, statisticians, pop culture junkies, and passionate fans who make up our various nominating committees. This collaborative brain trust ensures our voting metrics, historical data, and annual rankings are thoroughly debated, meticulously vetted, and genuinely reflective of the broader sports and music community.

Darryl Tahirali – Senior Columnist (DDT's Pop Flies)

Originally from Canada and now based in Orange County, California, Darryl is a freelance writer and cultural critic who explores the intersections of baseball, music, and Western pop culture. His regular column, DDT's Pop Flies, masterfully covers everything from the tasteful heights of sports history to the glorious depths of trashy pop media.

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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally identifiable information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number or other details to help you with your experience.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

      • To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
      • To improve our website in order to better serve you.
      • To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
      • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
      • To send periodic emails regarding products and services.

How do we protect visitor information?

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.

We regularly update the site software.

We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

Do we use 'cookies'?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

      • Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
      • Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.
      • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled It won't affect the users experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

However, you can still place orders .

Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third Party Cookies

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We have implemented the following:

      • Demographics and Interests Reporting

We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising initiative opt out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law's reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. - See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf

According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:

Users can visit our site anonymously

Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.

Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy', and can be easily be found on the page specified above.

Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes:

      • On our Privacy Policy Page

Users are able to change their personal information:

      • By logging in to their account

How does our site handle do not track signals?

We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third party behavioral tracking?

It's also important to note that we allow third party behavioral tracking

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under 13.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify the users via email

      • Within 7 business days

We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

      • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
      • We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
      • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred

To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:

      • NOT use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses
      • Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way
      • Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
      • Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at

      • Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.

and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.