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QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jan 29, 2013 -> 12:19 PM) http://www.suntimes.com/sports/17865500-41...media-fans.html ESPN cannot kiss his ass fast enough this week so far! Well, when he's going to be working for them in 8 months, they have to pump him up as much as possible.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Jan 25, 2013 -> 12:37 AM) Then again, it's really no one's business. You and everyone else can choose to believe him or not. But he doesn't owe anyone anything. The problem with that is he made it other people's business. He continued this lie to keep his name in the headlines, and to continue this story. The biggest part of this is when they asked him the biggest tragedy he overcame, and after knowing his GF was fake, he referred to that story. Not his grandma dying, but continuing this story because people were eating it up. That being said, i've grown tired of this story. His interviews are bs, they ask him questions, but don't follow up on the questionable answers, every report that comes out contradicts the last... Eventually the true story will come out and then I'll be interested to hear about it, but until I hear different I'll still think of him as a liar, and someone who kept up a bulls*** lie to keep himself in the headlines.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 04:23 PM) According to Emery's #'s, he was just about an average tackle on the left side. If that's right, the problem was he had gaping holes next to him, on the right side, and was assumed he could block everyone in the league one on one. I can't believe that... There were multiple times faster DE's just blew right around him. He may be average against average DE's, but that's about it.

So he did an off camera interview with ESPN? Why is this so secret? And what's his major connection to ESPN?

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) Do you have specific numbers on how many times Manti went to the media with this? And how many times the media went to Manti? Maybe this girl truly was the love of his life, maybe he truly was devastated by this but didn't want people to find out it was online. This death that was real to manti at that time could still motivate him and he'd still have the right to say that. I'm pretty sure she was mentioned 4 times after December 6. Forgive manti for not wanting to create a media circus before the two biggest events of his life (heisman ceremony and NCG) How many times did he go to the media with it? Probably 0. It doesn't matter if he went to the media or if the media came to him. You don't keep expanding the lie once you know it's bulls***. If he just deflected, and avoided it to not make it a huge circus, I could understand that. What I can't get behind is exaggerating the story to make it a bigger deal. His own teammates said he was exaggerating it because he loved the attention. They said they figured she was an online gf, and he had met her maybe once. But he loved the attention to he kept exaggerating it. Waddle and Silvy played a clip this morning. It was from an interview before the NC game. He was asked something along the lines of "What is the biggest tragedy that is motivating you." What did he respond with? The death of his "gf". He could have said his grandmother, but no. Well after he knew it was a scam, he kept going out of his way to bring it up.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 04:47 PM) Which explains why Teo lied, but you idiots keep thinking that Teo is a scumbag for lying and milking it for sympathy. As far as Teo knows he dated a girl for a year she died and the media picked up on it. Of course he's not going to say he only knew her online because he knew everyone would think he was a loser. This explains the contradictions in all his stories. P Then he finds out that he was duped before the NCG, what's he supposed to do tell the media that no that never happened I was tricked and create this huge media fire storm before the national championship game? No you f***ing play along and hope it goes away after the game. It's pretty clear now that Teo was duped and its clear why he lied to the media(so as to not look like a loser at first, and then after finding out to avoid a media firestorm that would distract the team from the national championship) Take off the anti Notre dame glasses and see this is the only way the story makes sense. Every other explanation has at least 1 part that doesn't make sense except this one. I was with you guys the other night I thought manti was scum and a liar, but it's clear now he got conned and I feel bad for him for that and how the public views him now. Whoa, calm down there killer. I think most people agree he got scammed to some extent. However, there are reports (the one from his teammates comes to mind) that he needlessly exaggerated it because he loved the attention. And what is he suppose to do? Not make up more BS as he goes along. Not keep mentioning his "dead gf" after he found out he was scammed. Multiple people have also linked to comments he made HIMSELF about his gf's death motivating him, and this is after he found out he was scammed. Shut up, don't make it worse. I am a ND "hater", but this isn't about ND. This is a kid who did this to himself. You find out you get scammed, you try to let the story die down, you don't add flame to the fire. You don't keep bringing her up.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 07:47 PM) I suppose his father could have been in on the cover-up of this epic troll of his son, playing along to cover for this embarrassment. His father is a ND hater, obviously!

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 07:42 PM) Swarbrick just explained that there were times she was supposed to go to Hawaii but something always came up and she never made it there. Te'o's father, Brian, told the Tribune in October 2012. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there." His own FATHER says she came out. Not that she planned to come out, SHE WOULD TRAVEL TO HAWAII.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 07:30 PM) All I will say is that you are a bunch of sick f***s, and I'm betting that less than half of you will have the balls to admit you were wrong and apologize when Te'o is proven not to be in on the hoax. LOL So Te'o lies about meeting a girl in real life, lies about her dying, and you have the balls to call other people sick f**ks?

Why does he keep bringing up Te'o's character? If this was all online, Te'o repeatedly lied about it.

This press conference is horrible... I guess you'd expect ND to take his side, but some of this nonsense they are spouting is ridiculous.

I don't really see any way they could have kept Lovie. You weren't going to get a decent OC to come to this team if Lovie was on his last year. This either meant extend his contract or stick with the same offense... Neither of those ideas sound good to me. I was just hoping we'd get Arians or McCoy, oh well.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 05:30 PM) Brian Kelly staying in South Bend. That sucks for ND fans.

I want Denver to win, but holy cow is Baltimore getting screwed on these calls...

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 10:18 AM) http://pokemonlightplatinum.com/ I've had more fun with this custom ROM than any actual Pokemon game. Am I doing something wrong? When I go to download it, it tells me the file is invalid or deleted.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 06:36 AM) Someone who has a much better clue on how to game-plan and call plays. Yea, screw the guy who got you back to the NC, and who currently has the #1 recruiting class in the nation! Forget that dude. You've had such good luck with coaches lately, maybe good ol' Charlie Weis will come back, and bring Willingham with him.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) I don't agree with this at all. 16 teams would basically mean any major conference team with two losses or fewer gets in (Depending on eligibility rules of course. The SEC would demand no limit while everyone else would want a maximum). So many of the games that mattered this year would become meaningless because teams were already solidly in the field. Alabama and Georgia both make it, Oregon and K-State are both in even with a loss, the ND/Pitt game wouldn't have had nearly as dire consequences, ect. The only games that would REALLY impact the playoffs would be championship games in single-bid conferences. That's why I really don't want it getting bigger than 8 teams. You still have to have a pretty solid year to make the top-8, if you go much further than that you start getting teams that had disappointing seasons by their standards like LSU and FSU in the field when they didn't do a whole lot to really earn it. I agree with all of this.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:10 PM) All of the rest of the levels of college football currently have season ending tourney's. This is correct, but that has nothing to do with my opinion on why I don't want to see a larger tourney.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) I think the larger the playoff pool, the more important the regular season is. The jockeying for playoff position will be huge, one small mistep during the year and you could be relegated to a "meaningless" one bowl game. Meaningless is relative of course. I don't understand how the bigger the pool the more important the regular season is. I could understand this for smaller schools i suppose. Last year's LSU vs Bama game, that was huge in the regular season because at least in theory the winner's NC hopes were still alive, and the loser was done. Stanford vs ND this year, same deal. KSU and Oregon being upset, TAMU upsetting Alabama (still got in, but same idea)... All these losses are meaningless when there is a 16 team pool because they all make it. Sure, they go from a shot at a 1 seed to a 4-6 seed, but that excitement of each game being a potential win or go home is completely gone. Unless, again, you are talking about smaller schools who need the larger pool to get a shot.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 11:50 AM) I have a feeling that once the playoff starts, and they see the interest level and money rolling in, they will be leaping over each other to get a larger playoff in place. This is my biggest fear for college football, and the reason I am anti playoffs. I see this quickly expanding past 8 teams. The larger the playoff pool, the less the regular season games mean. I love that every game is critical to the success of your season, and if there's an 8, or 16 team playoff, that doesn't matter nearly as much.

I live Kellys comment on how ND can come back "Maybe Alabama won't show up in the second half"

QUOTE (Carter224 @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 08:57 PM) Wish we could have seen Oregon vs Alabama instead. Notre Dame had no business being here in the first place. When you can barely beat the likes of Pitt, BYU, and Purdue you arent going to hang with Nick Saban with a MONTH to prepare for you. I've said this in this thread a few times. After all the chirping and cousin tshirts its great to see this. Some day ND fans will learn to chirp until they win something. 20 years of being humiliated in big games you'd think they'd learn.

This is exactly how I saw it going down and its glorious!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 10:53 AM) I don't agree that the Big 10 defenses are better (considering his defense gave up 14 more points), but I think he has a point. These great SEC defenses sure haven't come to play in the bowl games. When Louisville, Nebraska, and Michigan are putting up big points against your defenses, you can't really call them great or even good. I get that these are bowl games and anything can happen, but they sure haven't stepped up to the plate when it was time to. Edit: I linked to the wrong post... Oh well.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 30, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) It's s*** like this that makes me root against ND. I hope they get destroyed.