Manti Teo and Notre Dame are garbage.

[msu#1]

He made up the story about his girlfriend dieing off leukemia. She never existed. No ND has quickly came out to say he informed them on December 26th that he had been the VICTIM of a hoax and they were investigating it and standing by him.

Thats all BS, they school that knows all about Coverups is doing it again. Deadspin has info that Manti was in on creating the fake girlfriend and ND at the very least let the story keep going thru the National Championship game for press and at the worst was also in on it.

Karma

[johnson2113]

http://twitpic.com/bvu7jg

This is a quote from Teo's dad. Everyone keeps deflecting and making excuses, but from everything I've seen so far it seems like they were all in on it.

[Wildh2oskier]

This is actually the story of the world's stupidest public relations campaign. It got him to the Heisman ceremony and helped his voting in no telling how many other awards.
I don't think ND is trash but they have came under a lot of pressure to try and become relevant again. So yes I think they were in on it. Not @ the start but later.
I wonder how many millions this and the way he played against Alabama cost him in the draft?

[big john]

For an un-biased story about this please check this link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-575 ... iend-hoax/

As for MSU#1, you just jump on any anti-Notre Dame thing you come
across and get right up on your soapbox. Still stinging from that
20-3 butt-kicking? Michigan State stinks as bad as your spelling does.

[Nighthawk]

I dislike Notre Dame as much as the next guy..... Never could stand them, even though I have met Rudy more than a half dozen times...... I would love to buy this shirt, but $24 is a lot for a T-shirt with a message that will have almost no meaning 6 months from now....

[TommyBahama]

if this person exist there would have to be public records somewhere , nobody seems to have seen what this girl looks like , now 3 years in relationship, you would think he would of met her, seen her ,and had pictures. There are letters , i'm guessing he would have those , and where were they sent from?...and if she died , again there would be some type of record. He's either real gullible that someone could pull this hoax on him for 3 years or more , or he is behind it someway.

[Rabbitz]

This is one of the funniest things I heard in ages.

[msu#1]

For an un-biased story about this please check this link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-575 ... iend-hoax/

As for MSU#1, you just jump on any anti-Notre Dame thing you come
across and get right up on your soapbox. Still stinging from that
20-3 butt-kicking? Michigan State stinks as bad as your spelling does.

nope not stung at all, MSU has owned Notre Dame this decade. Spelling on a message board?? who gives a #%#? Im not writing a paper to be published.

I dont like coach's who kill their student assistants , schools that cover up the rape and suicide of a girl, and then try to make a football player into a VICTIM. Thats garbage


now Manti and Rainah are nowhere to be found and everyone is corrabarating their stories so Manti is made out to be a victim and gets paid for doing interviews with ESPN ( who had the story and sat on it! why?)


and guess what at one point in my life I loved the University of Notre Dame until I learned the hard truth about the school.

[big john]

MSU has owned ND this decade? The record over the last 10 years is 5-5.

[LIPH]

Not to nitpick but "this decade" just started in 2011.

[CaptainP]

Not to nitpick but "this decade" just started in 2011.

So....Notre Dame 2, MSU 0? Combined score 51-16...

[Crazy Navy Flyer]

Why is this national news? I'll bet there is less than .1% of the population in this country that cares. Slow news week.

[CaptainP]

Why is this national news? I'll bet there is less than .1% of the population in this country that cares. Slow news week.

Just because it is such a bizarre news story, and that it involved a player who spent a lot of time in the headlines.
And it's not so much a slow news week, not with Lance "the Devil" Armstrong out there...

[drunkpirate66]

From Bill Simmons' mailbag on grant land:

Can argue with Level 6. Still some crazy sycophant d*cks out there in PA.


Q: You have established the Levels of Losing. This whole Manti Te'o thing has got me thinking of the Levels of Indefensibly Defending Sports Figures. There has to be a certain level to where you can't defend your favorite stars without coming off as a pathetic, nonsensical fan. If there were five levels in all, Joe Paterno's supporters would be the highest (Level 5). Mel Gibson's fans are a 4 but dying to be a 5. Every Notre Dame fan defending Manti right now would probably be a 3 (with the chance to climb). This idea is in its infancy stages, how can you help?
—Joe, Syracuse

SG: Come on, you barely need any tweaking! You were right there! Fine, I'll help. You should have gone with six levels (you missed one).

Level 1: Reserved for harmless stuff — like Boston fans defending Kevin Garnett every time he acts like a bully or an a-hole (just because he's on our team and we love him and that's what you do when it's your guy), or Cowboys fans blindly defending Tony Romo's litany of choke jobs just because they love Tony Romo, or Miami fans refusing to admit that Dwyane Wade is an occasionally dirty player, or Utah fans arguing that Karl Malone really DID have some clutch moments. All benevolent fan-defending goes here.

Level 2: A blown-out version of the first level — the stakes are a little higher only because there's a little more of that hits-too-close-to-home sensitivity. Like how Ravens fans fly off the handle every time someone jokes about Ray Lewis's incident from 2000. Yes, you could throw Kobe and the Lakers fans in here. As well as Red Sox fans post-2004 right after any steroids joke about Manny or Papi.

Level 3: Any longtime O.J. Simpson fan now making the "If we're going to make excuses for Junior Seau, why can't we make the same excuses for everything that happened to O.J. after he retired? What if he has CTE, too?" defense. This gets its own level. By the way, I'm all-in on the CTE O.J. defense. He should start pushing it right now.

Level 4: Any Notre Dame fan pushing the whole "Look, Manti is the one who's a victim here!" scenario. If you play the catfishing/naive angle hard enough, the "victim" door is juuuuuuuuuuuuuust open enough that they don't sound completely insane. Just marginally insane.

Level 5: Anyone defending baseball cheaters (Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, etc.) with the always hilarious "We don't know for sure" defense or the equally hilarious "Come on, everyone was cheating, any competitive person would have done what they did" defense. All PED defenses go here. So does everyone defending Lance Armstrong's last two decades of lying/cheating/bullying/threatening/intimidating because "he did some real good, too."

Level 6: Anyone who wanted the Paterno statue to stay up; anyone who thinks that Paterno and/or Penn State's administration didn't have an inkling that something was at the very least a little off with Jerry Sandusky; anyone who rushed out a mostly flattering post-scandal biography about Paterno without waiting for the entire investigation to play out; and anyone who said the words, "Well, this may have complicated Joe's legacy, but it didn't change all the great things he did." Welcome to the highest level of Indefensibly Defending Sports Figures.

And this is all too easy to picture . . .

Q: [What] would be the craziest possible ending to the Manti Te'o story?
—Greg, Philly

SG: Bill Belichick spending the past few years creating Manti's fake dead girl, then hiring someone to play her on the phone, with the ultimate intent of wounding Manti's draft stock enough that he'd fall to the bottom of the first round of the 2013 draft … right to the New England Patriots. Thank you and please drive through.

[TommyBahama]

[txaggirl91]

There are so many holes in this story. He would be better to just come out and answer all of the questions, show phone records and all that. He is going to face some tough questions from teams on this. Better to clear it all up than have the drama come with him.

[SMLCHNG]

<---- One who just doesn't care. While I realize there are many who are more attached to college football than I am, unless it had an effect on the outcome of a game???? Um, just doesn't matter to me in the grand scheme of life.

[txaggirl91]

Penny, now they are saying this impacted how he played in the championship game.

[Wildh2oskier]

Well I don't think it had as much to with the way he played in the BCSNCG as the fact that Alabama simply over whelmed, over matched and over ran him and the rest of the team.

[SMLCHNG]

Penny, now they are saying this impacted how he played in the championship game.

Impacted how??