Notre Dame Joe Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Recruits are getting in on it too. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/8867807/recruit-stanley-williams-calls-false-visit-notre-dame-fighting-irish-big-misu Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Katie Couric is getting all the answers. "Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's syndicated talk show. A segment of the interview with Te'o and his parents was broadcast Wednesday on "Good Morning America." Committed yourself to, but had never seen her in person while having a one-year dating "relationship." That makes perfect sense. Quote Link to comment
QMany Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 She was in a car crash, in a coma, and dying of leukemia. You never saw her once ... Tell me how committed you were to her again. Quote Link to comment
jaws Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Katie Couric is getting all the answers. "Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's syndicated talk show. A segment of the interview with Te'o and his parents was broadcast Wednesday on "Good Morning America." Committed yourself to, but had never seen her in person while having a one-year dating "relationship." That makes perfect sense. That is a very liberal usage of the the word "committed". Quote Link to comment
HuskerShark Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Manti is an idiot. That is all that I have concluded from this entire situation. Quote Link to comment
RedRedJarvisRedwine Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Manti is an idiot. That is all that I have concluded from this entire situation. Manti is a funzanoon! See: Caddyshack 2 for definition Quote Link to comment
QMany Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Source provides ESPN's Jeremy Schaap with what source says are Manti Te'o's phone records from May-Sept. So in roughly 122 days, he had 110 sixty-minute conversations with "Lennay?" He called her EIGHT times per day? Who the f*ck was he talking to? Can I go back to my "gay" prediction? Update, 3:25 EST: Apparently, ESPN doesn't have the actual phone records. They have "a spreadsheet" from their source, which claims it represents Te'o's phone records. Nevermind, he is still just a liar, not gay. 1 Quote Link to comment
zoogs Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Manti still not coming clean about the degree of exaggeration in his actual relationship with the girl, I suspect. It is likely because it would make him look really bad. It's also possible that he really did 'commit himself' to her, but uh, that's a pretty hard sell. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 All of Manti's rebuttals involve us having to take him at his word and Swarbrick's word and Notre Dame's word. Too many inconsistencies and timing issues and stuff that we apparently need to trust Manti's word on for me to call Manti 100% a victim. Exactly. He's admitted to lying about some things. But now that he's admitted about lying, he's telling the truth about everything else, no matter how little sense it makes. Just trust him. Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I still think he's gay Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I don't know how you could really believe that Manti was part of this whole, multi-person, carefully crafted conspiracy. To me, this was clearly not one meant for the national consumption. I read through that SI guy (Thamel?)'s original interview with Te'o back in September. It's pretty disgusting the amount of fabrication Te'o went into for a girl he thought was real and actually died of cancer...but if he had created her, he would have had his "Oh sh--" moment right there, when Thamel noted that he'd just call Stanford and check on what her major was. Te'o comes off as a guy completely and blissfully unaware of the amount of obvious holes in the story, and that, I think, was likely why nobody dug further even in the face of all these question marks -- missing obituaries, Stanford not knowing who she was, etc. If Te'o and Ronnaiah, et. al, had gotten together and come up with this to fool the national media, I don't think they would have given this girl academic credentials like they did. Just a quiet, unassuming girl from back home that the media couldn't really check on if they wanted. tschu -- again, what are these inconsistencies you are talking about? There are 'too many' of them, so name a few that can't be explained away by Te'o blowing his 'relationship' with his online gal posthumously out of proportion. But you're assuming they came up with it for national attention. I claim it was their little thing for whatever reason - joke on their friends or I'm still leaning toward covering something bigger - that they never anticipated would have to be defended from a national audience. It's only after the story got legs of it's own and everyone knew about it that they panicked and didn't know how to get out of it. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I still think he's gay I can't find any other explanation that makes much sense. Quote Link to comment
huskerenner Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 What I don't understand is ESPN totally defending him and Notre Dame. Won't that make their other girlfriend(Texass) jealous? Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 What I don't understand is ESPN totally defending him and Notre Dame. Won't that make their other girlfriend(Texass) jealous? ESPN loves Notre Dame, and any "major" program that has a huge and usually quite annoying fanbase. Quote Link to comment
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