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01-17-2013, 01:48 PM | #156 |
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01-17-2013, 01:51 PM | #157 |
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01-17-2013, 01:54 PM | #158 |
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Considering the latest tweet I think that's pretty apparent
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01-17-2013, 01:55 PM | #159 |
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Yeah, I tried to copy & paste that latest one, but that didn't work so well. Actually though, my first thought was that whomever pulled the prank was now snarking at Te'o. For those who haven't seen the Tweet he's referring it,it's something to the effect that Alabama has learned that Te'o doesn't really exist.
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01-17-2013, 01:57 PM | #160 |
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01-17-2013, 01:57 PM | #161 |
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I'm pretty stunned that given the publicity around this story twitter didn't shut that account down or at least moderate what was posted from it. I guess no publicity is bad publicity for them
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01-17-2013, 02:07 PM | #162 |
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That twitter account wasn't even created until yesterday. Has nothing to do with the original account.
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01-17-2013, 02:13 PM | #163 |
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Funny regardless of it being the real account or not.
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I too am wondering if he's gay. Let's say he's a pathological liar and heterosexual and was part of this hoax the entire time. Why would he make up something like this? He was the MAN at Notre Dame. Women love guys who are famous and are or will be rich. Why would he make himself unavailable to all that hot woman that would want to date him at Notre Dame and St. Mary's? I mean he could have been picking up women on the side but so far nothing like that has come out (though I wouldn't really expect it to yet). It seems more likely that his parents are homophobic and put tremendous pressure on him to date. Combined with the fact that the Catholic church is relatively homophobic he and a friend may have decided to make up the story that he had a girlfriend to get his parents off his back and hide that he was gay. Then maybe it snowballed from there. If you're a pathological liar, I think you find something else to lie about to make your story more inspirational. Of course all of this is total speculation on my part. I think the other two possibilities are that 1.) He actually is a pathological liar and for some reason decided to lie about this. or 2). He caught on to the rouse a while back (long before December 6th) but was embarrassed to tell people he had a fake girlfriend and just went along with it and added to the rouse. I just don't see anyway he didn't realize she was fake until December 6th. If you're Monti Te'o you don't put up with the "games" of her not showing up to these supposed planned meetings when you've never even actually met her when you can easily land some other hottie with a good personality. |
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01-17-2013, 05:55 PM | #169 |
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Being gay and using this as a cover actually makes the most sense to me, not that any of the scenarios make a ton of sense.
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The thing that gets me isn't that he would have a fake GF, but that at some point, he or the hoax perpetrators (if not him, although I really doubt that) decided to have her "die". What was the point of that? Not like he wouldn't have had enough sympathy with his grandma dying.
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Probably?... you are being sarcastic right? This is the same church that nearly singlehandedly supported California Prop 8 a couple years back. |
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01-17-2013, 06:13 PM | #173 | |
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Yes very sarcastic I should have added to the orignal post that I definitely do not think he is gay either. I can see how that would enter peoples minds, but I think he was truly guilty of being too trusting initially. How things unfolded after September remain to be seen, but I am willing to give him the benefit of a doubt for now. |
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01-17-2013, 06:38 PM | #174 |
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Lot of people from the school I guess are saying that he had girlfriends and such so he's probably not gay.
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01-17-2013, 06:49 PM | #175 |
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Yeah, but he only took them back to his place to gossip about his teammates wieners
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01-17-2013, 07:05 PM | #176 |
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CNN's latest has interviews where Te'o discussed the girlfriend AFTER he and Notre Dame claim he learned it was a hoax. They are saying Dec 6, but he discussed the story in interviews on 12/8 and 12/11.
Te'o discussed girlfriend after knowing it was hoax - College Football - SI.com
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01-17-2013, 07:10 PM | #177 |
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They are saying Dec 26
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01-17-2013, 07:14 PM | #178 | |
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No, that's when he notified the school; i.e. three weeks after he found out himself. Quote:
Here's another article that uses the same two dates (just to avoid thoughts of an SI typo) http://www.csnchicago.com/ncaa/notre...061&feedID=630
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I'm 80% convinced he's a psychopathic homosexual responsible for a number of truck stop slayings across the country.
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Well this bit looks kinda bad for ND
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Yeah, that looks very bad.
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At this point, I'm fairly convinced that Te'o was in on this from the start, and when it became apparent too many people knew, he went to the school and he and Swarbrick had a meeting to discuss potential ass-covering. At best, Swarbrick felt there was a chance the story wouldn't become public, so he didn't put a stop to the charity video thing.
However, there are so many contradictions that I think Swarbrick has to go now, simply because he appears to be dumber than Te'o. It was a lame and clumsy cover-up effort and continuing this course is going to hurt the school's reputation. |
01-17-2013, 08:43 PM | #187 |
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Well at this point would you really be surprised if Te'o was taking part in butt chugging with leprechauns? |
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Deadspin's story wasn't written in five minutes. They had to be asking people questions, leaving messages. The story indicates the Tuiososopo guy was probably bragging to people. Sounds like a lot of people knew the girlfriend death story wasn't real. |
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01-17-2013, 08:57 PM | #191 |
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It was written in a week, according to Burke.
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01-17-2013, 09:10 PM | #192 |
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Haha, I just want this story to keep going forever and to take down a bunch of people. Though realistically speaking, I can buy that whoever is sending out videographers for fluff pieces isn't part of the small circle with knowledge of the "hoax". It's a big organization. Though, it's funny they're all scrambling around now trying to decide how to respond. |
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You know. Maybe someone ought to invent something that connects to the internet and you can like see and talk to someone live and see their actual lips move and all....
hang on, gotta answer this facetime call.
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Then I thought.... I wonder what Brent Musburger thinks of her?
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Worth mentioning that Notre Dame put together an emotional press conference and spent money on a private investigator over something as dumb as an imaginary girlfriend. They did not do this when a 19 year old student reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a football player, been intimidated via text not to come forward, and then killed herself.
This is where the priorities of Notre Dame football is. That's why Jon's post about the charity and videographer is not surprising in the least. |
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This will make a great 30 for 30 film a couple of years from now.
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