Sorry, that was kinda stream of consciousness. I think that is going to be the strategy at this point:

- Ronaiah takes blame and claims he is the only one responsible
- Te'o is 100% innocent and victim of a hoax
- Ronaiah refuses to cooperate
- Story never has all the questions answered

Obviously the real story could be that Ronaiah and Manti are gay, but it seems like the strategy for max damage control is to have Ronaiah take the hit and try and leave Manti as the victim as much as possible.

Klein has had pre marital sex.

yeah at this point Manti has to be Ronaiha's boyfried, or the dumbest idiot to ever walk WHO ALSO is a liar.

Notre Dame, Manti Te'o, etc.

Here is the audio podcast version. I think ESPN is waiting for later in the day to milk the Youtube views when they upload the video clips. Those are better as they show Stephen A expressions as he talks.


http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8853521

Story of Te'o comforting a (real) girl with cancer:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoot...-cancer-102512

Some cringe-worthy moments:

Te'o wanted to ease their pain. As he said, it eased his pain, too.

Surely, with what he'd been through, Te'o felt a little powerless. He then heard Bridget's story, and maybe he just wanted the feeling that there was something he could do.


My girlfriend, when she was at St. Jude's in LA, she had a little friend,; Te'o said. Her little friend passed away two weeks before my girlfriend passed away. So I've experienced a lot of that . . .


It's unfortunate that I've gone through it, but at the same time, it puts me in a situation where I can help people. I can serve people. I can relate to them. I see life through a whole different set of eyes;



I still constantly pray for Bridget and her family, Te'o said. You know, Bridget's in a better place now. She's with my girlfriend. There'sno better place to be.




If Te'o said those things knowing that Lennay was a hoax, that is some legitimately evil stuff. While I had a bad feeling about his involvement initially, I'm beginning to think the Gullible-OAT explanation to be most likely.

Edit: doing this on my IPad and have no idea why the text is getting mangled. Click the link.

Larry: idk if all the media will give this up without getting a girl here

yeah the MSM prob will bc they have such integrity and all that, but the new media? i think they'll keep digging here

So if Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is her cousin (as Maui'a says), wouldn't the media be able to figure out she is a real person by now?

Notre Dame is pretty ******ed but it seems like we're stretching to think they are actually engineering a coverup at this point.

PSU tho I guess

I guess phone records would be a decent starting point for the new media. That could force Te'o to speak about it, if it is shown that he actually never spoke to someone all that often, or the number is for Ronaiah of all the long calls. Which would be LOL to the max.

doesn't there have to be a chick involved that manti himself said he would talk on the phone with at night. oh and she had to pretend to have cancer, etc..

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8853521

Gene Wojciechowski on ESPN was saying that once Manti told ND about it they started coaching him on how to address it in the media and how to spin his answers to be about moving forward and avoiding the past where he would have to keep talking about it and bringing up more details. This isn't a straight cover-up per say, but I think it speaks to the mentality of handling crises' in general and the preference to spin something vs. tell the truth.

What motivation is there for a girl to talk to him on the phone for that many years every night? I would've said "f*** this" after like the third night.

I want to know who (not really her identity) the girl that they used for the voice on the phone was. She played along with the long con with no real incentive. Unless it turns out money was transferred she basically just talked for hours with this dude. She is probably an uggo.

fwiw i'm currently selling manti = gay and buying manti = sociopath

i suppose both are possible, but you can cover up your gayness without the whole fake death + fall guy drama to boot.

Well because Kenny, not all people are socially gifted enough to pull any girl they want. Maybe if he'd taken your class we wouldn't be here. Also he's a Mormon.

Because he wanted to make himself look better? Not really a reach at all for him to be a little ashamed even if he's 100% getting duped ("I've never seen this girl, others will think I'm weird") and embellish a bit.

imo there is a <1% chance there was a girl involved in this. IF there was, it was incredibly exaggerated to the max because even considering everything that has unfolded so far if there was someone actually spending this much time on the phone in the name of a hoax Te'o should probably be afraid for his life, because that is a sick obsessive amount of time to **** with someone.

Yeah, anyone I've ever known in a real long distance relationship has been absolutely miserable, and they actually got to get laid every few weekends or when they went home or whatever. A fake long distance relationship really seems like the worst

Well yeah but there is a pretty huge difference in coaching him how to handle this from the belief that he is the victim, and coaching him how to handle this if you believe he is in on it. One is really scummy and one isn't at all.

Personally I think he has to be involved somehow in this, but I wouldn't be surprised if ND powers truly believe him or whatever. I mean they believed in Charlie weis so anything is possible.

The guy's a celebrity, he doesn't need to be socially gifted to get any girl he wants.

Maybe if you want to argue that he's such a devout Mormon that he wants to save himself for marriage and the only way to avoid the temptation of sex was w/ long distance, that technically could be possible. But IMO it's more likely that he was in on it.

John clayton was on ESPN talking as if it's 100% manti is a victim because notre dame said so and won't hurt draft stock at all. LOL

Te'o drinking soda?

So Tuiasosopo gonna take the blame, and media gonna ignore the whole T'eo and his family systematically lying and embellishing angle and play up the victim angle.