OK let's try this again. Manti told Notre Dame officials that she wasn't real back on Dec. 6th but he's in the media continuing to talk about her as his deceased girlfriend multiple times after that date.

How is that not benefitting? Awaiting an adequate explanation, but you'll probably toss another personal zinger at me to deflect.



Ya, I'm as gullible as your are oblivious. I love how suddenly this has turned into a discussion about "Rock Sexton" instead of sticking to the facts that are out there PUBLISHED IN PRINT and MANTI'S OWN COMMENTS ON VIDEO!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc ... e/1842389/



Too bad you don't even have your facts straight.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc ... e/1842389/

http://abcnews.go.com/US/manti-teos-fak ... d=18246589

That dated is listed on many other news outlets as well.

You just said that he told them on Dec 6, he told them on Dec 26th.

Let's see if you are "stand up" enough to admit you had your facts wrong...

So Notre Dame's AD is a liar right Rich? LOL



He told his coaches AFTER he told the AD.

From the article you just posted...

Let's say he told the coaches on your date, but he learned of it being a hoax on December 6th when he got a phone call from her AFTER her supposed passing .....

He made the following comment on Dec. 8th

I'm fully aware that he mentioned her on at least two ocassions after he got the call on December 6th.

That doesn't mean he was deliberately lying to benefit from it. As I said, he could have been deluding himself into believing it wasn't a hoax or he may have been so embarassed by the whole situation that he wasn't sure how to handle it.

Not every mistake has nefarious intent.

What? Look at that comment at the Heisman event. He knew her to be dead back in September, but got a phone call in December then goes on to make that grand-standing comment about the time she passed away? And there's more comments just like that up until Dec. 26th, the date you call call into question.

How can he delude himself when he knew her to be dead almost 4 months earlier? He wasn't asked about the girl either just "tragedy he endured", he brought her up himself. Didn't bring up his grandmother.

*sigh* Your problem is you're so deluded in your own arguments that you don't take the time to properly read and interpret what others are saying and basically start having conversations by yourself.

You clearly have not understood anything I've said in this thread.

Take the time to read it and comprehend it and then we can continue having a discussion... or don't.

I don't really care either way.

You do care. As witnessed by your responses.

The guy knew his fake girlfriend died in September. He gets a call on Dec.6th from her which he notified ND officials about ..... but he's in the media making emotional comments about her passing after the 6th and before he notified ND around Dec. 26th.

Yeaaaah. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Yes... that's what I've been saying this whole time.

LOL

that's what I have a problem with. After he knew it was all B.S. he kept going to that 'dead girlfriend' well for sympathy.
I think what his teammates are saying is true, he feeds off attention.
I knew a girl like that once. And she actually made up a pretend death of a friend for attention.
That's scary to me.

What's also concerning is that after December 26th, leading up the BCS title game, Notre Dame LET HIM answer questions about Kekua. Not only that, but Te'o voluntarily brought her up...

I was reading the transcript of one press conference prior to the National Championship game, post December 26th, and he was asked to summarize the season as a whole thus far, and he started his answer by talking about how tough it was because of the death of his girlfriend....

I'm completely baffled as to why you would do that. After it's being investigated...whether he was hoaxed or not, why on earth would you do that?

One team mate said yesterday that the team knew the girl wasn't really his girlfriend, but that he played along with all of it and exaggerated it when the sympathy was coming from the outside because he loves the attention. From there it snowballed....I'm starting to think this has some truth to it.

Its easy to sit there and judge, but if this guy was being duped, then he was in a relationship with this fake girl for three years and heavily invested emotionally and two days after getting that call he was probably clueless as to how to handle it. If he was duped, then I don't think he was looking to benefit out of mentioning her, he was probably just more embarassed than anything that he wasted three years of his life and four months of staying up all night on the phone or whatever it was with someone who was fake.

I think the real question that needs to be asked is why was a guy like this guy, at a university full of hot chicks, who could have had his pick of any of them, dating some online girl he never met.

Again, I don't think there was nefarious intent here IF he wasn't in on the hoax. He was gullible enough to date some online chick for three years without meeting her so he probably isn't mentally astute enough to handle what happened later or even what is happening now.

I bet that entire team always thought he was a weirdo with talent.

i agree with alot of that Rich, either way he seems really weird to me. Even his family seems weird. So i would not like to draft Te'o and his family. LOL

Here is a question. What does it matter? I mean really...... who cares? People do strange stuff. What is odder to me is how others obsess over completely meaningless junk. haha wow! Lance Armstrong defrauds the cycling world for 7 Tour De France trophies and this guy has a fake girlfriend and ends up getting most of the press. Really? Too funny

There are American hostages in Algeria, but I'd rather crucify Te'o for getting duped.

I have my priorities straight.

More like never miss an opportunity to spar with Rock Sexton

Nah, because he "doesn't care" remember?



See, if you actually read up on the Armstrong saga you'd see how much harrassment and all the problems he caused for other people for the sake of covering up his lie. He crushed people, some in the industry who could no longer make a living. He was downright ego-maniacal about it. Not to mention he loved being paraded around as a hero, whom a lot of people gladly accepted .... especially the youth. Look how large that "Live Strong" movement became. C'mon man. He virtually transcended cycling. His influece wasn't locked into that arena.

He's another sad tale of cheaters in professional sports and that is why people should care. Gonna be that way until the time that others do not look to these figures as motivation and inflence.

You may not care about phonies .... but doesn't make the desire to discuss it any less valid. Sorry if we interrupted your tea time. Please pass the Earl Grey. Pinkies up!

How does somebody talking about Manti Te'o make it so that they don't care about hostages in Algeria?

What, because it wasn't posted about in the Dolphins message board? Man in that case, I better jot down all my thoughts/concerns on this board, otherwise technically they don't exist.

Sparring is a good word, because the sparring partner usually takes a good beating.

Once again you miss the point.

I guess that's what happens when you can't differentiate December 6th from December 26th.

Ya, perhaps when he's actually facing a champion.

You're so nefarious.

Edit it one more time.

I'm sure whatever you add next will be that much wittier!

Can't wait.

Rich please show the forum how anyone discussing Manti Te'o doesn't care about hostages in Algeria. Thanks.

I know you can't. That's why you keep responding after whining about not caring about these topics or anything I previously said.

Awaiting your response in 3....2.....1

Right after you explain to the forum how December 6th and December 26th are the same day.

I never said they were the same day. In the prior part of the conversation I said the 6th when Te'o went to the AD. You said the 26th. You corrected me in the article that it was indeed the 26th, however that DOESN'T change the fact that Te'o knew he had recieved a phone call from his deceased fake girlfriend back on the 6th and kept on talking about her as if she was legitimate in multiple areas of the press for weeks .... literally as soon as 2 days after the phone call from beyond the grave while he was at a Heisman event.

Is it possible that he thought that the call on the 6th was some kind of sick prank? If he really believed that for 3 years he had a relationship and that she was really dead them maybe it took some time for him to fully accept that he had been duped?

Maybe after some kind of investigation where it was confirmed he informed others, 26th?

I don't know, he could have been totally in on it the whole time. Fact is right now I just don't know.

I so do not give a rats behind about this.

Oh man this thread is entertaining!

LOL ... my girlfriend and I , Angelina Jolie were just commented on how we totally believe this guy.

I'll chime in....what the heck. He is a LB on a national champ title game team and he gets' duped? He's either in on it, or he's dumbass.....get a blowup doll, at least he can feel her.

It doesn't matter if you know, let's rush to judgment.