Manti isn’t young….he’s 22……other 22 year olds have spent 3-4 years in combat or holding down full-time jobs and feeding their families. What is this guy’s problem?

Te’o is no innocent little kid. This is a grown man who comes from the streets just like most people do. He knows right from wrong. He also knows when he is being dishonest. He claimed to have met Lannay Kekua after the Stanford game in 2009. He spoke with her all night after her accident in April of last year while she was in a coma and after.

He always spoke of her in generalities. He didn’t know her major, he didn’t know if she graduated in 2010 or 2011. Many, many more examples are out there. I didn’t just fall of the turnip truck Te’o. Neither did half of the public.

I like how his father was in touch with his girlfriends brother and family a number of times yet now he says he knows nothing about them.

This was a hoax to score sympathy for the Heisman just like it was kept quiet about Johnny Manziel’s arrest last June for disorderly conduct (a street fight), improperly identifying
himself to the police and then possessing a fake ID, a Louisiana drivers license. Manziel has these unresolved charges still pending.

Collin Klein is the only honest one of the 3 finalists and he finished 3rd. It just shows that in this country today, honesty is not always the best policy as people cheat to get ahead and are not held accountable. Ah, what a country.

Question is how long did he know and why did he keep it going.

Feel bad for him all you want..but this doesn’t absolve him of blame

Amen!

Wake me when there is some news.

And, while trying to cover for the kid, he paints him into a corner where he’s now expected to provide answers to all the questions he can’t plausibly answer. Well done, Swarbrick. Can’t be too long before they fire you.

I’d like to know who Regan was talking about and who’s family is he close with?

Compounding the damage is the faux-confident (read: BS) and over-the-top backing from ND (including, IMO, faux tears/emotion during the press conference) and the mealy-mouthed victimhood statement from Te’o that came out as a response to the breaking story.

At this point he should just stop talking to the media. He knows that interested franchises are going to ask about the issue during the combine and thru the draft and that’s when he should take the opportunity to redeem himself with a candid explanation of the how, what, and whys.

In the media, the story is out of control; to coaches who are interested in him as a player, he can be honest.

But, we already know too much. Trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube is futile. Face the nation Manti, stand up, tell the whole truth and let the healing process begin.

I’ll take you in the 4th rd. thanks.

And if Manti wasn’t in on it, why’d he say he’d met her face-to-face? And why would so much time be taken to convince his family the girl was real? The dad and brother have both said she was texting and calling them all the time. That only makes sense if Manti was behind it.

Te’0 should reexamine his entire situation because he has only one shot to make a first impression about what kind of man he truly is when the moments are at their biggest. Is he a man of integrity and a great leader and role model, or is he a bigshot businessman that is prone to making calculated mistakes?