re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)

From the released edited ESPN Schaap interview:

Te'o revealed that he told his mother of the hoax on Christmas Eve -- even though he knew weeks in advance that Kekua was, at the least, still alive. Te'o then told his father on Christmas day, and decided that Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly should be notified of the hoax.

Te'o called Kelly and told him the story over the phone. Kelly's initial reaction is as puzzling as the entire story.

JEREMY SCHAAP: So you tell Kelly. First you tell your D-coordinator, then you tell Kelly. What was the conversation like Brian Kelly?

MANTI TE'O: Coach Kelly just said she's dead. That's how we're going to go about it. She's dead. When you come in, we'll talk about it. That's all he said.

Yes, Notre Dame's head coach told Te'o that they're going to continue to operate as if Kekua is dead. At least, until Kelly, Te'o and other Notre Dame personnel had a chance to talk about how to handle the situation in person.

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Yet he didn't ask for money so that angle is weak as frick

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He didn't have to ask Teo for money, he got what he needed out of him. A good fricking sob story to sell to ND fans and the public to enduce tax free donations to a sham charity.

Almost all athlete foundations are tax havens and way to employ their hanger ons. They usually are not ran professionally and only survive on the donations from the athlete. The smarter ones use the athletes fame to solicit donations from middle class schmucks.


I think the pay off for them was to use sympathy from the Lennay story to get donations for a Leukemia charity with tie ins to other Samoan football players using his family's name etc, etc.

Remember this kid is a preacher's son, so he sees first hand how stupid religious people are and how easy they give up their money to the church, and sees an opportunity.

If you just get 5000 people out of ND's fan base to donate $100 a year to a charity using this bogus story as the hook... that's $500k a year. Little Ronaniah could live pretty well off half a mil couldn't he? We saw how much Livestrong earned right?