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If he thought she was a real person really going through this illness, so he embellished to make it more central to him, but tons of others embellish stories all the time. The reason it looks so bad is she was legitimately not even a real person. If we saw all of the communication it could be somewhat justifiable, albeit he is still dumb as rocks.

Yep, totally.

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01-18-2013 , 05:09 PM

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meh. I dunno. I don't think we'll ever know exactly how the PR stuff happened.

I think it's perfectly plausible that the media kind of ran with this thing and he just never stepped in front of it like he should have.

Did you read the Sept. 23 interview?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...d-hoax-quotes/

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01-18-2013 , 05:10 PM

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Dude just wanted to play football

And cameo in a movie as Diaz' ex-bf

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01-18-2013 , 05:10 PM

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people are forgetting that he actually knew roniahh and i think roniahh was some type of intermediary ..him and roniah supposedly hung out after the usc-ND game which was on nov-24

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01-18-2013 , 05:10 PM

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Did you read the Sept. 23 interview?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...d-hoax-quotes/

I'm not denying that he said things too.

What I'm saying is that I'm not sure he set out to do it. I think it's possible the media started running with this story and he was too embarrassed to admit he got duped by an online girlfriend and the story just kept growing and growing out of control as ND kept winning games and he kept playing well.

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01-18-2013 , 05:11 PM

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Are there cliffs? (Can't search thread on 2p2 app)
I've been hearing about this for like last week and have no idea. Read OP and still don't get it.

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01-18-2013 , 05:11 PM

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The thing with the interview is if he was actually tricked, that's probably why he sounds so ridiculous. If he believes this stuff and doesn't actually KNOW those details, which makes sense, he's gonna sound suspiciously ill-informed.

I don't want to go too hard on Thamel but holy crap, bro. Stanford has no record of this girl, and there's no evidence she ever died. Conclusion: research can be explained, "write around it." What does that even mean? Insane.

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01-18-2013 , 05:12 PM

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I think it's perfectly plausible that the media kind of ran with this thing and he just never stepped in front of it like he should have.

well again, was this even a thing before "she" "died"? did anyone know who the hell she was before that? (outside of his team, ppl who knew him, ppl around ND, etc)

so under this scenario he had to be duped at least into September, then found out after the media made a big deal about the two deaths and all that. i guess it's possible he felt like he was already in too deep at that point so just played along hoping that it'd go away at some point.

otherwise he's a fool for not quashing it earlier, if he's known for longer than that. or he was in on it.

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His story is that he found out on December 6th.

Who knows if that's true, but that's his story.

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01-18-2013 , 05:15 PM

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The issue with that interview is really he could be answering honestly based on a single email, or series of text messages:

Dad died, going to work his business for now. Got in car accident, almost died twice, was receccitated, cant talk, but want to hear your voice on phone. Found out I have cancer. Don't be sad, just give praise to Jesus, etc.

The meeting her stuff is fake because hes insecure about it sounding like a fake online relationship (because he probably thinks it could be fake) the dates come from the tweets, texts, emails he got at that time.

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Story grew out of control because he kept sitting down for interviews whenever possible and flat out made things up.

Eight hour phone calls?
The love of his life?
#cmonson

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01-18-2013 , 05:16 PM

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Why do people who lie always go to such extremes? The good liars are probably the people who seem fairly normal so no one ever questions anything they say.

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01-18-2013 , 05:16 PM

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My favorite part now might be the actual explanation for why she wanted him on the phone but couldn't talk. That is extremely effective troalllllllllling.

Dude is on the phone keeping fake chick company, real chick probably has phone sitting next to a speaker playing an mp3 of breathing or something while she goes out drinking or whatever. Right?

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Even if we believe the bull**** timeline, he sat down for at least one interview and referred to his "girlfriend's death" a couple days after he knew for a fact she hadn't existed.

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01-18-2013 , 05:17 PM

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Or Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is listening to Manti's voice and fapping on the other side of the phone.

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01-18-2013 , 05:18 PM

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people are forgetting that he actually knew roniahh and i think roniahh was some type of intermediary ..him and roniah supposedly hung out after the usc-ND game which was on nov-24

yeah i should probably re-read what Deadspin had on Manti & Ronaiah. they said there was twitter activity between the two, instagram pictures with them both, etc (most or all now wiped from the internet). so kinda hard to determine their relationship ... acquaintances? friends? cousins? lovers? who the [censored] knows...

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His story is that he found out on December 6th.

Who knows if that's true, but that's his story.

yeah i know, what i was asking was if "Lennay" was anything to anyone really before September 11th, 2012?

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Story grew out of control because he kept sitting down for interviews whenever possible and flat out made things up.

Eight hour phone calls?
The love of his life?
#cmonson

They didn't actually have eight hour phone calls. He would call her and go to sleep, with their phones both just sitting there.

That could easily be true. ****ing weird, but true.

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Even if we believe the bull**** timeline, he sat down for at least one interview and referred to his "girlfriend's death" a couple days after he knew for a fact she hadn't existed.

yup

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01-18-2013 , 05:19 PM

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Oh for sure, I'm not saying he's without blame here. Clearly he lied his ass off. I'm just saying if his motivation was just to get through the rest of the season without what he knew was a complete ****show blowing up in his face, it's at least like - not the weirdest thing in the world anymore.

The right play would've been to disclose all this **** immediately when dead girl called him. That wouldn't have been THAT big a story, really. Big but quick. Dude got owned on the internet and he's famous, he says something humiliating but funny about learning from it, team moves on. Obviously the best move.

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Even if we believe the bull**** timeline, he sat down for at least one interview and referred to his "girlfriend's death" a couple days after he knew for a fact she hadn't existed.

You really think he's going to drop a fake girlfriend bombshell into a random interview weeks before the NC game?

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01-18-2013 , 05:19 PM

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Or Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is listening to Manti's voice and fapping on the other side of the phone.

yeah, or this

lol at that being the endgame

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01-18-2013 , 05:21 PM

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seemed almost instant, given that he didn't even attend the funeral or anything

just "sent some white roses" or whatever and moved on...

weird, huh?

Kid's got rock solid mental game. Sometimes you run bad; don't let it ruin your day.

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01-18-2013 , 05:22 PM

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The best part of this is we are so much better at the internet than most people so this story probably seems the most ridiculous to us, while some people are def thinking "wow that poor kid, this is why I am never going to do that eharmony thing."

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