From my collegiate fan hood... Mandarich was a beast in college.
He was dominate. Destroyed people. But he was also technically flawed.
But you didn't see that at first in the tape... you seen a guy mauling people. In the running game he destroyed people.
I get why we coveted him... but we also we blinded by that lust. So were the remainder of the teams in the league.
Mandarich today, with all the platforms out there to get and analyze footage.. I think he would have been exposed for his lack of fundamentals.
Also, someone else nailed another issue with it all.. we couldn't accept that he might not be a tackle in the NFL. In ways, we still were stubborn under Campen.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"