ESPN to Air Off Camera Audio Interview with Te'o on Sportscenter Following OKC vs. DAL.

From espn.com

"He tried to speak with Kekua via Skype and FaceTime on several occasions, but the person at the other end of the line was in what he called a "black box" and wasn't seen."

Yea, that happens sometimes. For years.

So what about the players on the team who came out and said they knew it was a hoax and manti was just playing along because it was a good story???? I THINK SOMEONE NEEDS TO QUESTION THEM AGAIN!!!

I wonder if Te'o had his pet rock with him during the interview.

For those of you that aren't watching, I'll sum it up: Just trust Schaap, Teo sounded believable. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

At worst Teo lied and perpetuated a hoax and at best he's simple and clearly delusional.

If this catfish dude is looking for another mark, he should hit up Jeremy Schaap.

Deadspin loves to rip on espn so tomorrow should be some good reading as they break down this great journalism by espn

So someone had time to be on the phone with Teo for hours at a time over the span of a couple of years?

How about questions about "Why didn't you attend the funeral of the love of ur life" ... or "why didn't you visit the grave of the love of your life" ... "why didn't you seek an obituary for the love of your life" ... "why didnt you google ANYTHING about an accident, death, cancer, Stanford, etc etc"

Who keeps old texts from a "dead girlfriend"? I mean, Schapp is referencing texts that Te'o showed him... WHY would you keep those? Especially if he had a "new girlfriend" since the supposed death.  Wouldn't the new girlfriend feel weird about those being saved? 

Has anyone seen the video of that great American chess player (bobby Fischer?) going nuts on jeremy Schapp during a press conference? The chess player was a loon, but that's all I can think of watching this..

Does anybody else feel like Schaap is DYING to say "this is all bullshit" but he agreed with Teo/lawyer not to say those types of things ....

jeremy schapp is impossible to understand 

bunch of non-sense

what kind of tv reporter does not film his interview?

It is to journalism what pig vomit is to fine dining.

His manner was ... off. Either he was fighting off stomach flu and was trying to hold it together before he defecated something explosive, or DomeFan texted him to tell him that his daughter was tied up in the trunk of his car.

This is the weirdest goddamn story ever. (The only way it makes even a miniscule amount of sense, of course, is that Te'o was in on it. But that's pretty weird too, I'd reckon.)

Lance Armstrong, that little girl from the NFL commercial that asks Ray Lewis what his favorite color is, my online girlfriend. These are just three people I would have rather seen interview Teo

and we've just been Sidd Finched

Tuiasosopo is a f-ing mastermind (allegedly). To orchestrate a multi-year hoax that requires having someone else having to waste hours every night to be the "voice" is incredible. If thats not enough, you rope in a 9 year old girl and teach her to act well enough to convince a 20 year old Academic All-American that an imaginary person is real. Furthermore, he gathered these people, convinced them to donate their time, traveled from Hawaii to California, and sat through 4-way scripture conferences ... and didn't make a dime off it or commit any crimes. This guy makes Punk'd look like a Public Access show.

We're expected to believe he communicated with this girl on facebook and twitter and is somehow oblivious to the phenomenon that is video chat? Skype, facetime, facebook video... and yet he used none of them?

So, he found out, for certain, that it was a hoax 2 days ago when he received a call from Tuiaososopo ... conveniently the same time as Deadspin dropped the story. So he just so happened to be "foggy" and "uncertain" from Dec 6th until the exact date that Deadspin exposed it. Which, conveniently, makes anything he said in that time period "ok" because he still wasn't 100% sure that he didn't really have a GF.

ESPN makes this Tuiasosopo kid sound like quite the manipulator. I'm surprised he doesn't want to tell his side, clear his name or fess up to the public. Frankly, the media needs to stop reporting on this bizarre story. At this point it's too hard to determine who's telling the truth, lying, or possibly being paid to say certain things. Plus, this is all probably too much public humiliation for Manti, Ronaiah, and "Lennay" to handle over some foolishness. I hope someone is keeping an eye on Tuiasosopo, and everyone involved in this strange mess (including Manti) seeks mental help.  

I am so confused at this point. The longer this goes on, the worse everyone involved continues to look. How can he continue to change his story and the media is just OK with it? How can anyone believe Teo at this point?

Hoax regardless, you're Manti Teo - you have ND coeds flinging themselves at you every night on campus, many of which may actually have class and would welcome your gentlemanly courtship, but you turn to a chat buddy you've never mat as your official squeeze? 

The spider sense tingling says there's a question about this kid's sexual orientation.  He's probably gay, and in college football, where the boys bang each other up about who they're dating and what they're doing, Teo probably felt the pressure to come up with some long distance girl in his life to stave off questions from his teammates as to why he was never chasing girls with the rest of them. 

There is nothing wrong with being gay.  I have many gay friends actually.  But the fact remains that, while strides are being made with each passing generation in terms of greater tolerance, in this day and age being openly gay in college or pro football remains taboo and a major no-no toward your place as a cohesive member of the team.

End of day, Teo's sexual orientation and the pressure he was under is his business, but the fact that he went along with this chat buddy girlfriend story to his team, friends, coaches and the media, invited all of us in unfortunately, to behold a sad, confused young man.

I will bet Teo comes out of the closet within 20 years.  Again, nothing wrong with being gay, but in the macho world of college football, this kid was in a tough bind and clowned himself in an effort to stay in the closet.  There is no other rational explanation unless he's just really, autisticly bad with girls.