<p>Discuss
Manti</a> Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax</p>
<p>I’m very confused right now, so I’ll refrain from passing judgement until more info comes out. If this is true, than I’m extremely disappointed with both Manti and the ND football program for not being straightforward.</p>
<p>What!?! Manti must be incredibly naive or wildly stupid. </p>
<p>I cannot imagine that he maintained a relationship with a girl for so long without knowing that she never went to the college that she claimed. With Facebook and other media connections anyone could have easily found out she never went to Stanford. </p>
<p>The car accident and leukemia … And still he did not know ?</p>
<p>How could he go so long (years) without ever introducing her to his parents? Didn’t she ever go to a game? Oh dear so many questions to be answered. I am so disapointed.</p>
<p>^what if he actually met a woman who introduced herself as - let’s say Sally. Well, it turns out Sally didn’t exist and was really Betty. A relationship develops. How can the person perpetrating the hoax end it? By staging a fictitious death. All the while the hoax victim remains blissfully ignorant (love makes one blind).</p>
<p>Under this scenario, even introducing Sally to his parents would not lead anyone to suspect she was really Betty.</p>
<p>Let’s let the facts come out.</p>
<p>i think he did it for publicity <em>kanyeshrug</em></p>
<p>You can think manti knew but there’s no way you can rationally think the university had any involvement.</p>
<p>This is just like out of the TV show Catfish:</p>
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<p>It appears that the number of fake online identities is apparently astounding.</p>
<p>People are having long-time “relationships” without ever actually ever meeting.</p>
<p>And the ability to find out a fake identity is so easy – just ask for a photograph with a specific pose, or holding up a newspaper, etc.</p>
<p>You play football. You play division one football. You play division one football at Notre Dame. You are a starter on the Notre Dame football team. You are a started on an undefeated Notre Dame football team. You are a starter on the number one team in the country at Notre Dame. You are a starter for a Notre Dame football team that is going to the BCS National Championship game. You are the best player on that football team. You are a Heisman Trophy candidate. You are on the cover of Sports Illustrated. You are a future first round draft pick and millionaire in the NFL…</p>
<p>all this and he settles for an online relationship. yeah right</p>
<p>Before anyone else posts here, please note that "“bearcats” is the mascot of the University of Cincinnati, aka theschool where Brian Kelly used to coach football, and the school where they still have not forgiven him for leaving. The point of this thread is most likely to stir up controversy and this is not the appropriate place.</p>
<p>lol… bearcats is the mascot of The Hotchkiss School, one of the most prestigious prep schools in the nation.</p>
<p>I will wait to add my opinions until we get the full story as even the news agencies have different stories and some say the Manti could have even been in on it? Definately not saying anything until I get all the facts</p>
<p>Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, General Petraeus…they’re all kicking themselves right now for not coming up with the girlfriend-doesn’t-REALLY-exist explanation.</p>
<p>Honestly, the “Te’o is homosexual” theory seems the most plausible at this point. It’s a discreet subtle way to connect with the guy pretending to be Lennay (probably they are in a relationship). I can understand why Te’o wouldn’t want the pressure of being the first openly gay athlete, especially as a Mormon and especially at a school like Notre Dame.</p>
<p>The lengths he/they went to create the persona and the reasoning for killing her off (though I do believe it was paired with his grandmother’s death in a futile attempt to bury the entire affair quietly), though, boggles me.</p>
<p>Very very odd story.</p>
<p>The fake dead girlfriend was almost certainly his beard. Sorry, but no other way he carries on a lie of this magnitude for 3 years. The press conference was just sad. I mean who is going to fall for that exactly, when he claimed to have met her in person? Gone on for hours on end on the phone? The only rational question left is who else knew about it.</p>
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<p>Yes, this is the other possible explanation.</p>
<p>In the age of Skype when 85 year old grandmothers can communicate with their great grandchildren and 11 year olds communicate with their friends, we are expected to believe that they never saw each other. Couple this with his father stating that she visited them in Hawai’i and Te’o himself saying that they ‘met’ and he looked in her eyes after the Stanford game, this sounds very farfetched…
I’m more stunned that the Athletic Director at ND was so defensive of him last night at the press conference. I have a feeling he may end up regretting that course of action when all is said and done…</p>
<p>This is shocking…</p>
<p>Either USC fans are really crazy, or he has something to hide…</p>
<p>There’s really only two explanations. Either Te’o was in on it for publicity’s sake and to have a better shot at the heisman, or he’s homosexual and wanted to hide it from a particularly less than accepting Notre Dame football fanbase. His version of the story just doesn’t add up at all, and frankly I can’t believe that he or Notre Dame thought that was a good statement to release. He said he met the girl FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PERSON at the stanford game, shook hands and exchanged numbers. Then there are claims that they hung out in Hawaii and that they talked on the phone for hours every night. And really, this all went down post 2010. Skype the girl. Hit her up on facebook. There’s so many easy ways to make sure that someone is real. He clearly knew that she wasn’t real, the question is why did he do it? Right now those two theories are really the only ones that make sense.</p>