Manti <t>Well as we see the air beginning to clear on this whole situation it's already apparent that the majority of the media and the hoards of ND haters are going to have to eat a lot of crow. Manti is only guilty of being duped into believing this girl was real. Any inference that he was trying to benefit from this in any way is absolutely wrong.</t>
:roll: :wink: really dont care, just having some fun, though i still dont know how anyone could think they know the whole story yet.
So ... What the hell was his father talking about? her visiting them several times in Hawaii? Why did Teo continue talking about even after he learned she was imaginary? This may well be the story he tells but I'm not buying it. This does not pass the sniff test.
We all know that just before the Heisman, him telling this story would have sent the media into a fury. Not only that, telling the story after the voting would have been fodder for the skeptics. Here's a kid who just found out he'd been played. He has a nation that heard about his sorrows. His home campus has been behind him 100% wearing leis and praising his name. His team is preparing for the National Championship game. Does coming forward then, does changing the story help his team? I guess some think so. All I know is that I wouldn't have. And I also know that no one is blaming the NC loss on him distracting from team preparation. The school knew late in December. They decided that the distraction then wasn't worth it. (Oh yeah, they were investigating and didn't want to say anything until the investigation was complete.) This kid had no way out. Maybe the truth never came out and he could have gone on with his life. That was probably his hope.
Around the time they became a couple in april or may, she is hospitalized from a car accident. September 10 she is released from the hospital. The love of his life, the person he is going to marry, is in the hospital for five months, and dude never visits? Come on, thus just happens to be a minor thing, but there are gaping holes throughout that need to be closed before he is declared as having no part in it.
Teo graduated in Dec. He completed school in 3 1/2 yrs. as a number of ND football players do. (I realize a degree is something foreign to some schools) To do that he had to stay in South Bend to attend class during the summer. It takes a long bus ride from South Bend to Hawaii with a number of transfers. So now she is not just a girl friend but a person that he was going to marry? Maybe by next week she was pregnant and he was planning to kill her. :roll:
I'm with gipper, when he got that call 12-6 and finally it hit him that he'd been played, catfished, whatever if he had called a press confernce to say his fake girl friend was fake dead, but that he didn't know who was behind it and all that...it would have taken over the story of the ND season. His teammates deserved to be able to prepare for the NC game without having to answer questions about Manti about what they knew about what they think they knew. It's also clear to me that when she fake died and he told his coaches and teammates about the situation, and the media picked it up and started to run with it, he and the family most likely embellished the story so that it didn't seem so odd that his girlfriend was strictly a online/telephone person. Remember to that point he thought she was a real person. The tide is clearly turning for Manti and I hope that eventually he has press conference and gives his side of the story. Maybe then he can move on with his life. I have no doubt though that even after that there will always be those who don't think he explained everything 100% and that there is still more to the story. Maybe they need this Tuiosopopo guy to come forth and tell his story. Although since apparently there is no crime here, I have read some say that they believe that if he comes forward and himself tells the whole story from his side, exonerates Manti from any part in this that some will believe that he will have been paid off by the 'Te'o family to take the fall.
Could be wrong about the marriage since i can't find the reference, but no way someone is in love with someone in the hospital for five months and doesn't find a way to visit, especially when he was expecting her to die.
Don't get me wrong Kes, but I don't believe there is any proof out there that will satisfy you that he had no part in this. I don't believe if the perps came clean that you would feel all questions have been answered.
Terry, be honest and tell me if this story was about a player from any other school would you be ready to accept the story at this point? I don't think I know what really happened yet. Also as far as I know no crime has been committed, no NCAA rules violated, just a lot of twists in this situation that cry out for explanations.
Well, whoever plays ILB for the Irish next year, I hope that they are better than the imaginary LBs we had playing in the NC game.
Gip, i do agee with that. It is a sad indication of us when this gets more play than the lies fed us from the white house.
Although, it probablybwould not have blown up so big if his personal life werent such a cornerstone ofbhis heisman run, eithrr. Seek publicity in good times and i guess its hard to complain about it in bad.
This story about his "girl friend" broke after the second week of the season when he was so far off the Heisman radar than it wasn't funny. Of course he knew at that time that he'd lead the country in interceptions for LBs and ND would go undefeated an be in the NC game. Yeah, I can see how logical it is to think that he had something to do with it. :roll: And let me expand on the las post. Check out this article on NPR. It rehashes another story. Keep in mind that some psyco chick was at St. Mary's and an ND player went out on a date her. She went back to his room. He tried to cop a feel. She turned him down. 10 days later she offed herself. Realizing that if they arrested every ND guy that tried to cop a feel that the student body would be reduced to women and gays they failed to arrest. This amounts to some incredible cover up. What ********. This is the kind of **** we have to put up with over and over again. The only reason stories like this are published is that there are so many out there that want to belive it. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/18/169712092/more-tears-for-notre-dames-fake-tragedy-than-real-girls-death?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130118
Although, it probablybwould not have blown up so big if his personal life werent such a cornerstone ofbhis heisman run, eithrr. Seek publicity in good times and i guess its hard to complain about it in bad.