ND's Te'o Investigation - Another cover up?

Cover up is always worse than the crime. Nothing would be better than to have this story keep breathing with new twist and turns to expose Notre Dame, assuming they had a hand in keeping Teo's story alive knowing all too well it smelled fishy.

As for Teo, the kid is a head case.

Swarbrick: "I'm just hoping Brian Kelly doesn't dismiss me".

Christine Brennan has a pretty good op-ed comparing that Te'o story to the Lizzy Seeberg story.  Seeberg was a St. Mary's College student who accused a (still unnamed) Notre Dame football player of sexual assult.  She took her complaint to the Notre Dame police who did nothing.  A friend of the accused football player sent at least one threatening text message to Seeberg.  The Notre Dame athletic department didn't bother to hire a private investigator in that case.  Oh yeah, Seeberg committed suicide about a week after taking the complaint to the police.

The motives of the Notre Dame athletic department are pretty clear.  I have no idea whether a football player assulted Lizzy Seeberg, but if the Manti Te'o situation is worth an investigation surely the sexual assult claim is worth looking at.

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Better yet, I have serious doubts about "Academic All-American" status that Te'o gained. If he was spending 8 hours every night talking to this girl, how the hell does he study for anything after the football practice? All of the interview is exposing Te'o with the mental capacity of a 10 year-old. And would anybody be surprised at this point if Te'o's grades were fantasy as well?

I assume that girl whose picture was used is a good candidate considering she aske for none of this mess or anyone who contributed to the charity for Lennay. If Tuiasosopo is targeted, he pulls in his buddy Teo since he will have the money in a few months.

Your not silly enough to really believe that BS are you?

Yeah, except he lie because he was embarrassed, he went out of his way to talk about it because it glorified his situation.  At best.  Nothing to see here indeed.

I agree to some extent. However, as others have noted, there seems to be a cover up of sorts among the ND brass. For this fact alone, I hope reporters dig like mad and expose them for the collective fraud they are. And again, as others have noted, look at how this compares to the Declan Sullivan and Lizzy Seeburg situations. The only thing ND concerns itself with is damage control in regard to its image...albeit too late, in the minds of many.

This was pure window dressing, an act so that the university could say something with an appearance of innocence on Manti's behalf. The whole story is a moderately bland combination of uselessness and stupidity.

You are correct.  Even when you post photos, your smart phone has geotags, so theoretically, people can know where you were when you take photos/upload them.

I have been wondering this as well. Is it against the law to be stupid and/or an asshole?

I'm guessing that the lawyer was there on insistance from his agent to make sure he said as little as possible so that he can plausibly continue with the "Te'o the innocent victim" narrative. The lawyer seems more likely there to protect his draft status than anything else, and given how much money a drop in the draft could cost him (and his agent) if he said something stupid, it seems like money well spent. 

because he doesn't prefer girls.

I posted a couple days ago -- a guy who was on his HS team (grades 7-10), who just finished playing for the Delaware Blue Hens, told a local DC radio station that even back then, Teo (who lived an hour away from their school) told classmates he had a "girlfriend back home" so no one ever met that girl.

This has been going on for a decade, in other words.  What kind of football player lies to his teammates about having a girlfriend?  One who doesn't feel that away about girls.

would be an excellent storyline twist, don't you think?