T'eo's girlfriend death a hoax?

• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  So, is this the ND investigation team?
  
  
• vball10set

  http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/21570427/teo-talked-about-fake-girlfriend-after-he-allegedly-found-out-about-hoax
  

  SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o perpetuated the heartbreaking story about her death.
  An Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 10. He and the university said Wednesday that he learned on Dec. 6 that it was all a hoax, that not only wasn't she dead, she wasn't real.

• ernest_t_bass

  

  vball10set;1368900 wrote:http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/21570427/teo-talked-about-fake-girlfriend-after-he-allegedly-found-out-about-hoax

  Meh... Still gotta wait for Te'o's responseseses.
  
  
• se-alum

  

  ernest_t_bass;1368901 wrote:Meh... Still gotta wait for Te'o's responseseses.
  
  

  Is it unfathomable to you that he lied about it because he was embarassed?? Geez!!
• ernest_t_bass

  

  se-alum;1368931 wrote:Is it unfathomable to you that he lied about it because he was embarassed?? Geez!!

  Geez-ow, guysss.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  se-alum;1368931 wrote:Is it unfathomable to you that he lied about it because he was embarassed?? Geez!!

  lol have you heard him speak? He's not embarrassed, he's an attention whore.
• se-alum

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1368940 wrote:lol have you heard him speak? He's not embarrassed, he's an attention whore.

  I wasn't serious.
• vball10set

  IMO, he didn't start it, but he found out about it early on and kept it going. After that, it started taking on a life of it's own, and he didn't know how to stop it. Or, based on reports coming out from his teammates, he loved the attention, and didn't really want to stop it.
• sherm03

  

  Short article from TMZ...so consider the source. But, this is the one question I would like to see answered about the timeline between when he says he found out about it, when he told ND, and when it finally become public.
  
  http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/18/manti-teo-nfl-yeah-i-lied-notre-dame-hoax

  Sources connected to Te'o say ... it's true what ND Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said Wednesday night, that Manti realized he had been hoaxed on Dec. 6, when he got a phone call from "Lennay" ... months after he thought she was dead.
  
  But sources tell us ... Manti didn't tell his coaches about the hoax until Dec. 26 ... because he thought it would be a huge distraction while the team prepared to face Alabama in the BCS Championship.

• ernest_t_bass

  

  vball10set;1368984 wrote:IMO, he didn't start it, but he found out about it early on and kept it going. After that, it started taking on a life of it's own, and he didn't know how to stop it. Or, based on reports coming out from his teammates, he loved the attention, and didn't really want to stop it.

  I could see someone doing it out of being so pissed off. "Oh, you guys think this is funny? Well, I'll show you!" Then it just shit storms, and he ends up getting a ton of attention from it, and he probably didn't foresee it.
  
  But he still sucks, and so does lotz.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Basically, he catfished america. He should spin it that way, that he pulled a prank on the media.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  vball10set;1368984 wrote:IMO, he didn't start it, but he found out about it early on and kept it going. After that, it started taking on a life of it's own, and he didn't know how to stop it. Or, based on reports coming out from his teammates, he loved the attention, and didn't really want to stop it.

  Then he's a fucking idiot. It's not hard to stop. But how do you go years believing this person exists and never meet them? No matter how this comes out, he's a fucking idiot.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1368992 wrote:Basically, he catfished america. He should spin it that way, that he pulled a prank on the media.

  I would support him if he did this. If he said, "Fuck you, media. You deserve it!" But that'll never happen.
• sherm03

  

  The Florence Freedom (a minor league baseball team in Florence, KY just south of Cincinnati) is planning a "Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Bobblehead Night" on May 23rd. First 1,000 people to the ballpark receive an empty box.
  
  God I love minor league baseball.
• WebFire

  ernest_t_bass;1369000 wrote:I would support him if he did this. If he said, "Fuck you, media. You deserve it!" But that'll never happen.

  That would actually be pretty damned funny. But he would have had to done it when it first came out.
• sherm03

  

  This one had me cracking up! Definitely one of the funnier things I've seen on the story.
  
  http://www.headingfortheexits.com/hfte-exclusive-chat-transcript-between-manti-teo-and-lennay-kekua/
• ernest_t_bass

  

  sherm03;1369031 wrote:This one had me cracking up! Definitely one of the funnier things I've seen on the story.
  
  http://www.headingfortheexits.com/hfte-exclusive-chat-transcript-between-manti-teo-and-lennay-kekua/

  Wow. That was great.
• ou1980

  Breaking news on Sportscenter...apparently they found the guy who pulled the hoax.
• killer_ewok

  

  ou1980;1369146 wrote:Breaking news on Sportscenter...apparently they found the guy who pulled the hoax.

  @schadjoe: on @SportsCenter woman tells ESPNs Shelley Smith that man confessed to orchestrating Te'o hoax; Te'o didn't know
• vball10set

  ^^maybe not when it started, but he certainly knew way before Dec. 6th
• karen lotz

  

  ou1980;1369146 wrote:Breaking news on Sportscenter...apparently they found the guy who pulled the hoax.

  
  might be breaking news to Sportscenter, but news crews have been outside his house since Wednesday night. They just broke in to The Herd and said a woman contacted Shelly Smith saying Touisosopo confessed to her he was behind it.
• killer_ewok

  

  @schadjoe: Two people told Shelley Smith that man who allegedly duped Manti Te'o pulled exact scheme w same fake pics on family member
  
  So many twists and turns in this thing.
• karen lotz

  

  vball10set;1369163 wrote:^^maybe not when it started, but he certainly knew way before Dec. 6th

  
  certainly lied/embellished the relationship before Dec 6th, didn't know about the hoax.
• killer_ewok

  

  vball10set;1369163 wrote:^^maybe not when it started, but he certainly knew way before Dec. 6th

  I thought it was reported that he found out on Dec. 6th? I'm not excusing him. He should not have talked about her after he found out and he should not have waited 3 weeks to inform the university of this.
• sherm03

  

  vball10set;1369163 wrote:^^maybe not when it started, but he certainly knew way before Dec. 6th

  Maybe. But maybe not. Maybe he really is just that big of an idiot and was just lying about meeting her to save face.