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BY HANK KOEBLER

ANCHOR BRICE SANDER

Bill Parcells won 172 games as an NFL head coach, but will the man nicknamed “Big Tuna” win the waiting game?

Parcells was a finalist for this year’s Hall of Fame class, but the selection committee did not choose him as part of the six-member Class of 2012. Newsday’s Bob Glauber, a member of the selection committee, was shocked.

“The guy has the credentials. I just don’t see where the question is there. Maybe there’s some competition from other positions here but that guy has been a history-making coach in this league.” (ESPN)

But Miami Dolphins fan blog, Phinphanatic published an article titled “Bill Parcells is Not a Hall of Fame Coach,” saying Parcells’ shortcomings as an executive are why he’s sitting on the sidelines. The blogger wrote...

“Parcells is the man I still blame for the mess that is the Miami Dolphins. His self-serving ego was paramount to adding failure to an already floundering franchise. [He]... did nothing in revitalizing the team that he was tasked with building ... he walked away from the job before it was completed.”

Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News wrote Parcells is more than worthy of enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. Lupica says...

“He should have made the Hall of Fame Saturday, because he took over four bad teams in his life and turned them all into winners and took two of them to Super Bowls and nearly did it with the other two. You tell me who else can say all that?”

Sports Illustrated’s Jim Trotter, another member of the selection committee, explains that even with Parcells’ accomplishments, voters weren’t sold.

“There were some concerns about how he left certain franchises. There were concerns among some about the fact that he was at one job while negotiating for another job.”