This could affect his nfl status. Anyone else think this girlfriend may have been cover for another secret, one which might not play in the current nfl locker room?
A reason why I would never want to be a coach or athletic director. This is the kind of crap you need to deal with. Can’t just get work on getting together a good team and admin items. Need to put up with your players drama, personal stupid mistakes and everything.
I’ve always been an ND Fan (don’t give me shit please) but this is messed up. For a university that recruits guys that are actually suppose to be smart, this is unreal. I won’t be surpised if he was in on the whole thing since the beginning. The whole Notre Dame campus must be really ebarrassed and the staff must be scrambling for damage control. My wife even said it this morning, you’re the star player of a college football team going pro, and you date a girl online??
To those who think the NFL will pass on a top tier player because of this scandal: Hi. Welcome to Earth.
I made this comment above but let me expand.
He will be drafted, of course. But he was predicted to be a Top 10 draft pick. You don’t think teams are going to take a harder look at him, his character and his emotional state to figure out if they want to pay him Top 10 draft pick money, for him to be a complete mental midget and flake out of the NFL in a year?
His draft position as a lock in the 1st round I would suspect is tenuous at best.
No doubt it will affect his draft status, but if he’s as good as he’s reported to be (I’ve never watched him play), there’s always a team waiting in the wings to take a gamble if he meets their strategic needs. And if he pans out in the big league, ultimately his future contracts will mostly negate whatever early losses he sustained.
Endorsement deals are another story, but his future as a football player isn’t really in jeopardy at this point. Although a story this bizarre can always get worse.
This is like Anthony Michael Hall in “The Breakfast Club” saying he lost his virginity at Niagara Falls. “She’s from Canada, you wouldn’t know her.”
Although a story this bizarre can always get worse.
And normally does. If I was an NFL GM, I would not draft this guy unless he fell to the 4th or 5th round (which won’t happen). College head cases rarely become sane once they get money from the NFL.
ANd I hope it does get worse, god I hope it gets worse.
I love watching people who have everything going for them ruin their lives by doing stupid things.
Remember Ray Caruth??? played for the panthers, had his pregnant girlfriend “whacked”…but he went with the hitman and she saw him and reported him with her dying breath…
lol…
who the hell goes with the hitman??? clearly this is a rookie move.
Found this dude in the trunk of his car pissing in empty milk jugs and eating candy bars.
That story was awesome. Not so much about the girl being killed but just how badly he bungled it up. Then being found in his car… classic.
And this was all because she was pregnant. He could have just given her some money to go away.
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That story was awesome. Not so much about the girl being killed but just how badly he bungled it up. Then being found in his car… classic.
And this was all because she was pregnant. He could have just given her some money to go away.
And if memory serves me, he had just signed a really good contract, like 6 million a year or something, I would wager that 99% of chicks that get with NFL players for money would leave you alone and sign any papers you wanted for like 1 million bucks.
This story is just strange, but that picture is funny stuff…
The Notre Dame press conference kind of sayed me towards Teo.
You’re kidding, right?
If ND is not completely making shit up, and that is a big if since they are scrambling right now too, and they found conversations between the people doing it making fun of what they were doing that is pretty compelling. But it all depends on what was actually in those conversations. And if they are making fun of Teo or just making fun of the world.
I’m about 55/45 towards believing Teo is just the dumbest guy ever.
“I’m about 55/45 towards believing Teo is just the dumbest guy ever.”
Or that maybe he was embarrassed that she was so ugly that even Brent Musberger wouldn’t hit on her…
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Okay, I need to admit. I didn’t know much about this guy until this year. Notre Dame football doesn’t get much print in the SEC. I didn’t know he had a girlfriend, sick, injured in a car wreck, dead or otherwise.
And I find very amusing that a website called Deadspin uncovered the… truth.
Let’s see…Good looking guy, All American Football Player / Middle linebacker @ Notre Dame and you’re looking for dates on-line?
I don’t think there is anything here, move along!
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Get your Notre Dame T-Shirts!
The Notre Dame press conference kind of sayed me towards Teo.
You’re kidding, right?
If ND is not completely making shit up, and that is a big if since they are scrambling right now too, and they found conversations between the people doing it making fun of what they were doing that is pretty compelling. But it all depends on what was actually in those conversations. And if they are making fun of Teo or just making fun of the world.
I’m about 55/45 towards believing Teo is just the dumbest guy ever.
While I often disagree with you on political issues, I generally thought you were a pretty intelligent guy. However, I am really losing faith in you.
Let’s give Manti the full benefit of the doubt here, for the sake of argument. Let’s assume he was duped, thought she was real, fell “in love” online, believed she was dead, later found out it was a hoax. Let’s assume that to be true. Then we STILL have the following bullshit to deal with:
- Te’o lied to the South Bend Tribune about meeting her after a Standford game.
- Te’o lied to SI about “seeing” her.
- Te’o grossly embellished his “relationship” with her repeatedly.
We also have these issues:
- Te’o says he spend hours on the phone with her, often falling asleep. Where are the phone records?
- Te’o did not go to her funeral. Really?
- Te’o claims he sent white roses to the funeral home. What funeral home accepts flowers for someone who does not exist?
- Te’o gets a call from the “dead girlfriend” on Dec 6. ND says Te’o told them about this on Dec 26. He told no one his “dead” girlfriend called for 20 days?
- Te’o was still talking about his “dead girlfriend” in January of 2013.
So, even if true, Te’o still perpetuated a HUGE fraud.
More insanity:
On the same night the story of Manti Te’o’s girlfriend and her death last year from Leukemia* was revealed as a hoax**, an NFL player insisted “No, she is real.”*
Um — what?
Reagan Mauia, who played in two games for the Arizona Cardinals last season, said he met Lennay Kekua in person during an outreach trip with Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers and others in June 2011.
“This was before her and Manti,” Mauia said Wednesday, according to ESPN. “I don’t think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was — I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa.”
whaaaaaaat???
Best story of 2013 so far.
Guess we will (or should) know more today about 3pm, when the “girl” in question is having a press conference.