Manti Te'o a horrific liar?

[imbondz]

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even the cliff notes don't make sense

[kishoph]

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Even if it is proved that Te'o was the victim of a hoax (doubt it), going by the date that both Te'o and Notre Dame said he found out about it, Te'o continued to bring up her death in interviews after that date.

[NOT THE DUDE...]

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Are we sure Te'o is even real? I didn't see him in the National Championship.

[Discotrish]

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My take: 50% hoax, 40% predatory opportunist, 10% innocent, dumb kid. Teo is a kid - 20 or so. Being dumb at 20 is nothing new - been so forever. And nothing wrong with that. Time was, society protected the young from the ugliness of the adult world until they learned for themselves, from incremental experience. Not these days.

Now, all over the internet, the tv, the radio, this kid is getting piled on...he's the topic of the day.

That's shameful. Folks ought to leave it alone. Leave him alone.

From what I've been reading they tracked down the hoaxer through the girl's picture. The hoaxer is someone KNOWN to Manti Teo. (there's a picture of the two of them together, and they communicate on Twitter) So either Manti was originally in on it (and it got out of hand), or someone he personally knows is hoaxing him. (Doesn't really explain why Manti's DAD confirmed that his son and the imaginary girl got together several times) Questions about this were swirliing PRIOR to the Heismann ceremony, at which he was asked his most memorable moment that year, and he AGAIN mentions the non-girlfriend.

Interesting tidbit, apparently Joe Theismann's name was pronounced THEES-Man, until Notre Dame has him change it to THIGHS-Man in 1971 when he was in the running for the award. (He came in second.)



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[Discotrish]

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Te'o Mentioned 'Dead Girlfriend' Twice After Telling Notre Dame He Was Scammed

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[kishoph]

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Te'o Mentioned 'Dead Girlfriend' Twice After Telling Notre Dame He Was Scammed

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It was also more than two times, I heard an ESPN interview this morning from December 8th, where he talked about her death. I know people want to put the "catfish" spin on this, but to me, it seems a lot more like bull****, than catfish.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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He never mentioned to the media that his relationship with the love of his life and the girl his parents thought he would marry was strictly online/over the phone? Seems like something he would've brought up if it were true.

[OpIv37]

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Well, scam or hoax, after it was out there he couldn't ignore it. I don't think mentioning it after he told ND he was scammed makes a difference one way or the other. He had to stick to the story publicly.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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Well, scam or hoax, after it was out there he couldn't ignore it. I don't think mentioning it after he told ND he was scammed makes a difference one way or the other. He had to stick to the story publicly.

Why?

[K-Gun]

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Why?

If he was tricked into an "emotional relationship" through a series of online conversations, and phone conversations with a woman pretending to be the girl in the pictures, he may have talked about the girl to his parents before he knew it was a hoax. In which case, he could have told them a "story" about how they met b/c he was embarrassed to admit to having met online.

IF this was a hoax, then he didn't make up the car accident or dying part. So the answer to your "why?" question, if it was a hoax, was the same reason he would have told his parent the story about how they met. To avoid embarrassment. The story had been all over the national news by the point he was supposedly aware it was a hoax. The story "was the truth" in the eyes of the media.

I'm starting to wonder what role Notre Dame had in putting out the PR surrounding the girl friend tragedy. It would be interesting to see the university's PR correspondence with the national media. Were they the Big pimps of the story to get the university more attention?

If he was tricked, his lies about the length and nature of the relationship would have been "white lies" from his perspective to avoid having to admit he met online. Then after finding out, he would perhaps continue to going along with it to avoid embarrassing the university as much as himself.

Remember, the university knew before the BCS game. Why didn't they hold a press conference to admit the truth? Why did they wait until after the story broke? You have to think they were holding their breath hoping it would never come to light. The university was the recipient of just as much media attention as Te'o. And there's no doubt Notre Dame's PR staff has far greater reach than Te'o, if "his people" were involved in originally pimping the story at all.

[Ed]

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Why?

Maybe to try and avoid national humiliation? Is it that hard to believe that he thought it would be easier to just continue with the lie than put himself through the embarrassing ordeal that he is now going through?

[Joe Fo Sho]

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Maybe he should have thought about that before capitalizing on a story that wasn't what he told us it was.

[OpIv37]

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Why?

What they said plus one more thing: hoax or scam, he had to know this could hurt his draft position, potentially costing him hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. He was probably just hoping to keep the lie up until April.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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What they said plus one more thing: hoax or scam, he had to know this could hurt his draft position, potentially costing him hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. He was probably just hoping to keep the lie up until April.

IF he got played by this online person, and he was honest about how he'd never actually met the person that died just 6 hours after his grandmother died, adding the fact that he got 'catfished' would have just added to everyone feeling sorry for him. It wouldn't be the same story that it is now. But he lied, and now we're here.

[Discotrish]

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The sports talking heads don't think it will hurt him in the draft at all. It's an embarrassment but certainly no crime.

A friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo told us he was "80 percent sure" that Manti Te'o was "in on it," and that the two perpetrated Lennay Kekua's death with publicity in mind. According to the friend, there were numerous photos of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and Te'o together on Tuiasosopo's now-deleted Instagram account.

Website That Broke The Story Ahead of ESPN

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