When an institution built to honor greatness fails to recognize what the broader world considers self-evident, it is forced to confront not just a single decision but the machinery behind all its decisions. The Pro Football Hall of Fame, facing sustained criticism over its exclusion of Bill Belichick — a six-time Super Bowl champion widely regarded as the greatest coach in NFL history — has overhauled its selection process, most significantly by halving its voter pool. The reform is a quiet institutional confession: that the previous system had drifted from the judgment it was meant to embody.