T'eo's girlfriend death a hoax?

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• Gblock

  i still say he goes in first round or very early second round too much value to pass up...look at burfect for bengals didnt even get drafted started 15-16 games for them how many teams are kicking themselves for overthinking that situation
• Fly4Fun

  

  sherm03;1368735 wrote:Should I take it to the bank...or book it...or whatever?
  
  
  
  And that slide has much more to do with him getting bowled over in the title game and little to do with this hoax.

  Eh, ESPN was reporting that "their experts" so Todd McShay had him going 8th before the news broke.
• Terry_Tate

  

  
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• Terry_Tate

  

  
• j_crazy

  

  So if I understand the ND nuthuggers, his performance last week was piss poor but he was still a lock for top ten. Then he kills his fake girlfriend and the draft stock slides, but its because he was a piss poor linebacker for 60 minutes even though he was the best player ever all other times.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Wow, just read Thamel's column at CNNSI. That guy might be the worst journalist in the history of media. You don't question that a guy doesn't know if his "love of his life" graduated one year or two years ago - you don't follow up when he's uncertain about what she studied. You don't take 3 minutes to call Stanford? CNNSI should be ashamed.
• sherm03

  

  j_crazy;1368790 wrote:So if I understand the ND nuthuggers, his performance last week was piss poor but he was still a lock for top ten. Then he kills his fake girlfriend and the draft stock slides, but its because he was a piss poor linebacker for 60 minutes even though he was the best player ever all other times.

  Was this in reference to my posts? I never said he was still a lock for a top ten pick after the NC game. I said to my buddy at the bar at halftime that Te'o's stock was going to hurt.
• Azubuike24

  

  Pete Thamel is fucking stupid. A hack.
• Pick6

  

  I would LOVE to know what sjmvasjlksd has to say on this situation. He is always saying how OSU players are pieces of shit, but ND players arent. Not surprised he is in hiding.
• Pick6

  

  LOL'd
  
• GoChiefs

  

  Coming up on David Letterman is his top 10 list. Top 10 signs you have an imaginary girlfriend.
• karen lotz

  

  GoChiefs;1368824 wrote:Coming up on David Letterman is his top 10 list. Top 10 signs you have an imaginary girlfriend.

  I missed it, was it good???
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Pick6;1368816 wrote:LOL'd
  

  Lol'd as well, its like they read the OC.
• karen lotz

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1368792 wrote:Wow, just read Thamel's column at CNNSI. That guy might be the worst journalist in the history of media. You don't question that a guy doesn't know if his "love of his life" graduated one year or two years ago - you don't follow up when he's uncertain about what she studied. You don't take 3 minutes to call Stanford? CNNSI should be ashamed.

  
  so you didn't read the column?
• karen lotz

  

  http://deadspin.com/5976952/us-weekly-teo-hoaxer-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-auditioned-for-the-voice-and-had-a-sob-story-about-a-car-accident?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
• karen lotz

  

  http://1280thezone.com/index.php/audio/listen/alema_teo
• Manhattan Buckeye

  karen lotz;1368843 wrote:so you didn't read the column?

  Of course I read the column. That's why I posted. Thamel should be fired. He tried to cover up an embarrassing inability to even do a bit of investigative journalism and figure out that a woman:
  
  1) Graduated from Stanford (not sure what year)
  
  2) Was hit by a drunk driver
  
  3) Died from leukemia
  
  And wasn't even mentioned in a Stanford University student newspaper, because he checked Lexis Nexis and didn't find an article?
  
  This is the dumbest piece of journalism ever IMO. How in the world in 2012 can you not even find a Facebook, Twitter, whatever about a Stanford graduate and think "ok, that's normal"?
  
  Sports Illustrated should be ashamed. I think of all of the people involved Te'o is the least culpable. He may have been duped, but our media can't do a single 3 second google search?
• karen lotz

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1368861 wrote:Of course I read the column. That's why I posted. Thamel should be fired. He tried to cover up an embarrassing inability to even do a bit of investigative journalism and figure out that a woman:
  
  1) Graduated from Stanford (not sure what year)
  
  2) Was hit by a drunk driver
  
  3) Died from leukemia
  
  And wasn't even mentioned in a Stanford University student newspaper, because he checked Lexis Nexis and didn't find an article?
  
  This is the dumbest piece of journalism ever IMO. How in the world in 2012 can you not even find a Facebook, Twitter, whatever about a Stanford graduate and think "ok, that's normal"?
  
  Sports Illustrated should be ashamed. I think of all of the people involved Te'o is the least culpable. He may have been duped, but our media can't do a single 3 second google search?

  
  you said that Thamel didn't contact Stanford. He clearly talks about who he talked to, what the guy told him, and why he didn't use the Stanford connection in the story.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  He contacted the assistant AD, not the registrar, or even the Secretary to the registrar. That isn't contacting Stanford. My wife and I went to college before the internet and even then any moron could find out that we were registered there. Why would Thamel contact the assistant AD, who the hell is he?
• Manhattan Buckeye

  One more thing, he screwed up so much why do we believe him now? His reputation is gone, like Te'o's.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  
• queencitybuckeye

  Gblock;1368775 wrote:i still say he goes in first round or very early second round too much value to pass up...look at burfect for bengals didnt even get drafted started 15-16 games for them how many teams are kicking themselves for overthinking that situation

  Disagree. For every time it goes this way, there are far more where "character matters" is proven true.
• Devils Advocate

  

  queencitybuckeye;1368871 wrote:Disagree. For every time it goes this way, there are far more where "character matters" is proven true.

  Maybe foe a QB, but not a line backer. They want crazy.