I've been thinking it for awhile, but I didn't want to post it because it comes off like sour grapes if you're reading the tea leaves. But objectively, the red flags are there: NFL father / college coach or analyst or whatever, spending the Covid days training his kids, and then becomes an assistant coach on their high school team. A private north Texas parochial high school team at that. And Tommy missed his entire junior season with an injury. If they weren't legacies, then I think there would be more discussion about this.
OL is the most difficult position to project from high school, anyway IMO. The services have been historically bad at their OL evals, especially in comparison to other positions. I've seen too many camp warriors who are maxed out and never make the leap as their competition improves and ages. Or maybe I've just been soured by the long and distinguished list of 4 and 5 star OL busts that UT has endured over the last decade? There are few freaks of nature that stand out, guys like Leonard Davis, but for the most part it seems like a crapshoot when the $9.95ers do their OL evals.
Bag on Herman for a lot of things, and he will get shit on massively around here if/when the Brocks take their talents to Tuscaloosa, but he hasn't been a star fucker on the OL and he's rebuilt that room from the ground up into a strength. Whatever metrics they are using to evaluate high school linemen seem to be working.