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I'm going to assume he knew as little about Hernandez as apparently anyone else did.
These coaches know some of their kids are bad, but they turn a blind eye and don't want to know because if they are good, that is all that matters.
Hell, look at Cam Newton. People forget he started at Florida, got caught for academic fraud and stealing a laptop (which he painted like a ghetto bicycle, and then when the cops were on their way up threw the laptop out the window, and still to this day claims "I didn't know it was stolen" - I guess painting laptops and chucking them out windows is standard practice in da hood #BLM). But even Florida would rather avoid the black eye with a player, so they let him quietly transfer and play elsewhere.
Wrong incentives in college football... overpaid coaches and underpaid athletes leads to corruption across the board.