Deadspin: Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend story was a hoax

Given the luck the Patriots have had with players who couldn't get it done anywhere else, this wouldn't stun me...

I think even before this, this guy was a reach in the top half of the first round. If I use a top 10 pick on a LB, I want Patrick Willis.

I think sociopathic tendencies aside, this guy is going to be the next AJ Hawk.

 

More words from Notre Dame about a girl who didn't exist and couldn't have died off campus, then about a boy who did exist and was killed on campus.

you stay classy, Notre Dame.

 

Guess I forgot the blue font. It was basically tongue in cheek, given the Patriots' history of . . . never mind.

 

Lewis can't run latterly anymore either. The Pats will make this clear on Sunday.
Teo is not Ray Lewis but he can start in the NFL. I mean The Colts start Pat Angerer
at their Mike.

 

I disagree.

At some point, obviously, he lied about things. Or someone did. Didn't someone on here say that his dad was the source for a lot of the South Bend Tribune story details? Has no one ever lied to their parents about the details of a romantic relationship? I know I have.

He had no reason to construct this ruse when he supposedly would have. None. Even when the death story broke, he was not a household name. It was before the Michigan State game, when Notre Dame was still a fringe top 25 team, and barely at that after nearly losing to Purdue. He was a middle linebacker who was nowhere near the Heisman picture.

To believe that he was in on this, you'd have to believe that:

(1) For years now (2) Manti Te'o, a talented but largely unknown middle linebacker (3) cultivated, along with others, a fake relationship with a woman so that (4) years down the road (5) he could spring her death on an unsuspecting public (6) the same week his grandmother died (7) in order to marshall sympathy (8) in the off chance an unlikely Heisman campaign developed at some point (9) and a compelling narrative might help him.

The chances that a 21-year-old college football player is that conniving and savvy: One hundred trillion to 1. At best.

 

"More words"?

Has Notre Dame not talked about Declan Sullivan? Did they not release an extensive internal report?

 

No presser for Te'o today. Instead he's doing a one-on-one with Jeremy Schaap.

 

Was Te'o really not a household name back in September? I mean, he wasn't being mentioned as a serious Heisman candidate maybe, but most everyone who follows college football more than just occasionally knew who Te'o was. I think it's semantics, but people definitely knew who Te'o was a few months ago. He didn't just burst onto the college football scene in November.

 

Lennay was a 6. (Surprised it hasn't been mentioned sooner)

 

Meanwhile, Te'o's girlfriend has a scheduled a sit-down with The Onion.

 

My bad then, BTE. I'm a firm believer in the no blue fonting of our lives.

 

Man this is weird. I like the Occam's Razor idea floating around here, but the problem is - which one of these is the simplest explanation? Every idea floated so far has convoluted complications. If he was duped, the complications are that he may be among the most gullible people who ever lived, and somehow got others to lie along with him when his embarassment over it being online-only forced him to lie about meeting her. Why would people lie for him in that situation? But if he's part of this - why? He stands to gain nothing from it that I can see. He had no Heisman campaign when this story launched. He wasn't a high enough draft prospect to be planning out some elaborate back story that far in advance. If he's gay, why say anything at all? As far as I've heard, nobody questioned it. And if someone did, just say his gf goes to Stanford - that's believable enough to teammates or friends or whoever might question him - but then why kill her off? That just complicates things further unnecessarily.

I'm stumped. This is like some kind of mystery novel. We've had twists, now I'm eager to see the ending.