I really don't know or care what really happened with Te'o and his make believe girl friend. What I find most interesting about this is the attention that ND has thrown at this fiasco. And, now there are at least a few reports surfacing about this hypocrisy, here is one:
You can be on either side of the Te'o story, but this has to upset you if you have a pulse. And this is what makes me ever so more suspect of the spin ND is putting on the Te'o story. What do you think?
I agree, thanks for sharing. The student who died taping practice was shady at best, too. I can also see similarities to the PSU situation and Steubenville situation, in that the PR people get involved to protect a school, or program, or profits while casting aside victims and justice (at least there doesn't seem to be any serious victims in the Te'o case, except maybe Te'o).
Heart goes out to the Seeberg family, for they will never be able to find peace over their daughter's tragic, misconstrued death.
I think the snowball effect of the last 3-4 incidents/cover ups at ND make the Te'o hoax and laughable support from the university all the more pertinent. The media and college football should be looking at ND with the same scorn they have for other institutions that blur the line between academics and athletics. It isn't just the Te'o incident, it is all of them and NDs sieve like defense in such cases.
Calling Dan Wetzel....
You have to put the blame on the media as well. First Take dedicated the entire show to this invisible girlfriend story, but I never once heard them mention the rape case.
"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.
Christine Brennan FTW
Great article; I agree completely.
Here is another one - Rick Telander in today's Chicago Sun Times:
"This whole thing is so nutsy that I believe it only could have happened at Notre Dame, where mythology trumps common sense on a daily basis. Rudy, leprechauns, ghosts of yore dance around like hallowed elves, while tales of a killed student football videographer and a student who killed herself after allegedly being assaulted by a player on this year’s stellar team go uncelebrated. Given the choice between reality and fiction, Notre Dame always will choose fiction.
Which brings me to what I believe is the real reason Te’o — and apparently his father, at least — went along with this scheme: the Heisman Trophy."
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/17620371-452/heisman-powerful-mo...
The Heisman theory is flawed. If he told friends and teammates about her for nearly a year, he was planning this at least as far back back as October '11. Then he has to bank on all of those picks and tackles and wins and his defense being tops in the country. I guess a grandmother dying might not generate a big sympathy vote, and neither would a girlfriend, though I don't know for sure. But both on the same day would. So then he was continuing this lie with his friends and on twitter/Facebook so that on the off chance he had another personal tragedy, he could kill off his fake girlfriend for more sympathy on the off chance he racked up decent stats in an undefeated season on a #1 defense? And he went ahead with that plan 2 to 3 games in to what was supposed to be the nation's most difficult schedule?? That's one long damn con.
Mentioned this earlier, but I'm glad this article was written; ND's Athletic Department's had a lot of evil relatively swept under the rug. Here's hoping it finally gets unearthed.
I'm all for it. Hopefully these articles actually help us get answers.
I like football
Tatoos and trading gifts seem insignificant at this point.
Can the NCAA step in on this or is there anything which they can rule on for the Seeburg case given that it should be a legal investigation?
Nothing like dancing on the field in 02...