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This is what I don't understand... If you've been duped, come out and honestly talk about how stupid you were. America is great at forgiving and showering respect on those who admit mistakes. The only way you need a lawyer is if you have to hide.
Yeah that game makes me believe he'd be even worse than es. es is a big enough physical presence to play SILB and control gaps, Te'o looked like a huge pussy who would need to play WILB with a physical presence next to him who can plug all the holes so he can make tackles unblocked.
Like es, his ceiling was discovered leading up to the draft when he looked like a 1st round talent his entire senior season. This incident makes him a 3rd/4th rounder, imo.
This is what I don't understand... If you've been duped, come out and honestly talk about how stupid you were. America is great at forgiving and showering respect on those who admit mistakes. The only way you need a lawyer is if you have to hide.
1) Manti's grandma died and that in itself was an emotional story that was inspiring to people...but he chose to pimp his imaginary girlfriend story over his real life grandma. Why? No idea, but it's strange - and that's just the start...
2) Manti gave a really heartfelt interview about all the great things his imaginary girlfriend did and why she was so special not just to him but for other people - it was so honest and eloquent, the exact opposite of what he sounds like 99% of the time when he's interviewed.
3) Does anyone really believe that a young male, regardless of social status and athletic ability, would ever throw himself 100% into a "relationship" where he's never even HELD or KISSED a ? No way, that is completely illogical.
4) Manti's draft stock will not drop - other guys have done much worse, and other than being a pathological liar, he'll be just fine in the NFL.
He pimped his dead fake girlfriend because his grandma dying wasn't much of a story in and of itself.
Someone in his 20s loses a grandma who was in her 70s is pretty much par for the course. That's what old people do, they die. If he tried to pimp that story too much the media wouldn't have had much of it.
Except for Deadspin's work on this story..
Schaap shoulda asked him if he meant "forever ever?"
This. The fact that no one verified any part of the story is mind boggling. Never checked in to the "accident" or her "death." The media just ate it up without a second thought.
BTW, after reading the transcript of his interview with Sports Illustrated, the whole accident scene sounds like it's straight out of a movie. Everything just miraculously happened. It sounded too contrived, yet they never tried to corroborate his story.
Firstg let me say I have gotten so much entertainment out of this story, I hope it goes on for such a long time.
But with that said,
To me, it really isn't much of a story. If anything it's not really about a guy who got catfished, lied, or is gay, it's about how bad our media is for letting it get so far without someone doing his due diligence. That to me is the biggest story, how can our media let him get aways with this for so long.
Are people lying, yea they are, but it's the media's job to find the truth and call him out on it, if that isn't happening we should stop using those media outlets because they suck at their job.
What I know about Mormons, this could be a big catfish job. What I know about Samoans, this could be one big lie. I just want the media to actually start doing their job.
Why is ESPN so wanting to let Te'o off the hook here?
they helped pump him up and did zero research of any sort
Every media outlet wants him to be innocent so they aren't guilty of being manipulatively used to such an extent. If it was an innocent snafu, it's an innocent snafu all the way around. A manipulation, then ESPN is guilty of failing to fact check an outright lie.
When Notre Dame mobilized on Wednesday night to characterize the Manti Te’o fake dead girlfriend hoax as something for which Te’o had no responsibility, the effort included a press conference from Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick, who declared among other things that the university’s ultimate conclusions were based on a report from a private investigation firm that had rolled up its sleeves and gotten to the truth.
Apparently, no sleeves were rolled in the making of the report.
According to the South Bend Tribune, a university spokesman admits that the investigators conducted no interviews. The firm didn’t interview Te’o or his family. The firm didn’t attempt to contact the admitted perpetrator of the hoax, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
The firm didn’t examine cell phone records to confirm Te’o's claim of eight-hour phone conversations with the person posing as Lennay Kekua. The firm also didn’t look at emails or other electronic communications that would demonstrate the length and extent of the communications between Te’o and the person(s) playing the role of Kekua.
If pressed, Notre Dame would surely claim that those steps weren’t needed because the smoking gun was found by searching the Internet and other public sources. If forced to tell the whole truth, Notre Dame likely would say the investigators were instructed to do nothing that would increase the chances of the story being leaked and in turn reported before the January 7 BCS national le game. Once interviews begin, other names are mentioned. To be complete, those people need to be interviewed, too. Eventually, the interviews could have included someone who would have blabbed about the situation to the media.
Of course, an interview with Te’o wouldn’t have done that. Instead, the investigators presumably received whatever notes Swarbrick created during his possible kid-gloves meetings with Te’o.
And so Notre Dame’s proclamation that no laws were broken was made without the benefit of Te’o's uncle’s su ions about Tuiasosopo’s financial incentives, or Te’o's claim that at one point he was asked to provide checking account numbers, a clear sign that there was an attempt to turn something that supposedly was sport into profit.
“Early on, she said that she was going to send me money, actually,” Te’o told ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap. “And she wanted to send it and she wanted to directly deposit it into my account. So she wants to know my checking account number, which I didn’t give her. . . . I’m not giving my checking account number. I don’t care who you are. I’m not giving my checking account number out to you. Then she went on and asked my best friend, Robby. Hey, Rob, I want to help you guys out with groceries or help you guys pay for the bills for the house. I’ve saved up some money, you know. Give me your checking account number, and I’ll put it in there. . . . I told him, whatever you do, do not give out your checking account number.”
Te’o said that the “red flag” went away when he was told by the student credit union that someone who wants to put money in to his account couldn’t take money out with the account numbers. But then he didn’t provide the numbers, even though he no longer believed money could be taken from his account.
Still, the “national” firm Notre Dame hired didn’t even know about the potential red flag, because the firm didn’t ask Te’o about that. Or anything else. Or anyone else.
So the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is still out there. Between the su ions regarding Tuiasosopo and the attempt to get Te’o's checking account numbers, there’s enough evidence to justify exploration of the situation by the appropriate officials. If the appropriate officials are so inclined.
If they’re not, we’d love to know why. A major goal of the criminal justice system is deterrence. And there’s no better way to deter crime than to fight it in the context of a high-profile case.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...many-respects/
No, it's not their job to find the truth. It's the media's job to get ratings, that's it. They don't give a about the truth.
She "babysat" me in like 1998. True story.
http://deadspin.com/5977416/notre-da...ogle-and-nexis
The investigation ordered by Notre Dame was limited to the electronic search, [spokesman Dennis] Brown said. Investigators did not interview Te'o or his family, nor did anyone attempt to contact Ronaiah Tuiasosopo or any of his relatives.
In response to questions, university officials said the investigators did not examine cell phone records, e-mails or other electronic communication to determine the length or extent of Te'o's communication over the past few years with the person claiming to be Lennay Kekua, nor did the university ask Te'o to take a lie detector test.
Manti Te'o agrees to on-camera interview with Katie Couric!
Produce evidence. That's all. Phone records, emails, private messages. Prove you believed the relationship was real. You've already admitted to misrepresenting reality in interviews. Normally such makes you a liar, so how will more interviews clear anything up?
That's probably the biggest guest the Dallas Stars will have all year.
Not surprising. Te'o liked getting to play the victim when everyone thought his girlfriend died. Now it looks like he's ready to grab some more attention for himself by going on the media circuit to play the victim of an online hoax. After he gets drafted in the 5th round he can play the victim card yet again.
Manti Te'o, professional victim.
Someone close to Te'o provides the media with phone records...in a spreadsheet.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...phone-records/
that's a lot of phone time, what a mope
Some needs to parody Jenny (867-5309) to Lennay (555-5555). It all still rhymes. , the parody act can be called Manti Tutone.
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