All I know is that I have never seen anyone do to an elite defensive line what I saw Michael Vick do to Florida State in that national championship game. That was extraordinary.
Doesn't mean they won't scout the roster. If Samari Matthews balled out in a spring game but was 4th on the depth chart and didn't play much his freshman year, you can bet teams would come after him.
Pretty sure spring games have gone the way of the dodo. Personally I am fine with it since it gives other teams a chance to scout your roster, and it opens up all of those expensive portal players to a potential injury. Keep them all wrapped in bubble wrap until week 1. Can you imagine if Cam Coleman or Rasheem Biles went down with an ACL in the spring?
They certainly didn't have problems identifying players while he was there. Although I don't know how much of those were true evals versus Jimbo just star fucking. They clearly didn't do any mental evals.
Oh yes, lets let someone from joebucksfan.com, 105.7 the fan, outkick.com, and paulkuharsky.com litigate how deserving a guy with 8 super bowl rings is to enter the hall of fame on the first ballot. These guys are basically an HOA board at this point playing petty politics with the fractional minute amount of power that they wield over a sport they never played. They sit in a room smelling their own farts and gaslighting each other into stupid ass decisions. Sports writers have no business electing hall of fame players.
Considering we saw what kind of havoc a singular outmatched guard can cause your offense in the SEC, I think the bitching, moaning, gnashing of teeth, and general pussification of this board is fairly on brand. We have a multiple hundred page thread discussing how the QB who won us a B12 title, took us to the SEC title game, and went to the playoff semifinals twice in three years was somehow not a good player.
Claiming molestation when you are railing your boss doggy style in your trailer is certainly a take. He doesn't seem very bothered by it. 90+% of straight males with an opportunity for no commitment sex with an older woman as a famous 16 year old would have taken it all day. In high school my friend hooked up with a female hotel manager on spring break and nobody thought twice about it.