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NoSuch Dame LB Manti "Snugglebunny" Te'o (official imaginary thread)

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SEREbuckeye;2291078; said:
Maybe Brian Te'o would had preferred a front page Brian Kelly smiling with a caption of "Irish did their very very best in the game but unfortunately Alabama won by a close margin, sort of"
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Or maybe just one of the thousands of shots of something other than his kid getting embarrassed on national television after the family accommodated the paper.

Continue with your needless rant about nothing.
 
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buchtelgrad04;2291147; said:
Were they supposed to pretend he played well?
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Nope, he wants them to be kind, sweet, and funny. You know everything a girl wants.

The paper was within their rights to run what they wanted. They are in the business of selling news, not good feelings.
 
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In my mind, it is not about one performance. Te'o was terribly over-hyped by the press and got badly exposed in the NCG, as was his team.

As an example of the hype, at one point in the NCG broadcast, Musberger was talking about how "A LOT of those interceptions" made by Te'o came from tipped balls, emphasizing the words "A LOT". Would that be three, four interceptions, all seven, Brent? Is that really a lot? More than 100 tackles is "a lot", but Te'o wasn't near the top 20 in any other metric this year.

I'm not saying that he was not an excellent linebacker in college football. I'm saying that we should look a bit deeper.

Notre Dame played a decent schedule, but they played only two teams with less than five losses.

Both of those teams (Stanford and Oklahoma) were badly exposed in their bowl games. Neither of those teams were really physical teams.

It's easy to look good on defense behind all that hype. Even someone who is not really a physical player. Even someone who sometimes has trouble getting off blocks.

Look beyond the tackles and interceptions, and what one sees is an excellent linebacker but not someone who deserved to leave college football as its most decorated player. Evidence suggests that he may not even be a standout in the NFL.

We also see evidence about this kid that tells a pretty good story--one that we would celebrate for an Ohio State player--if one looks at the kid in a more balanced way.

Comes back for his senior year. Handles the loss of his grandmother and girlfriend on same day. Never gets in trouble for alcohol- or drug-related problems. Doesn't get into any brawls or sexually-abuse any girls. Keeps himself academically-eligible. Provides leadership in a defense that played way above historical expectations.

I'm not sure how he did academically or if he finished his degree, but this is a kid who did it the right way and I hope he will have success in life.
 
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Buckeye513;2291135; said:
Or maybe just one of the thousands of shots of something other than his kid getting embarrassed on national television after the family accommodated the paper.

Continue with your needless rant about nothing.
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The only shots that didn't show him getting embarrassed were of AJ McCarron's girlfriend.
 
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buchtelgrad04;2291147; said:
Were they supposed to pretend he played well?
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I didn't realize there wasn't a medium between pretending he played well and putting a picture of him eating shit on the front page. My bad.
SEREbuckeye;2291152; said:
Nope, he wants them to be kind, sweet, and funny. You know everything a girl wants.

The paper was within their rights to run what they wanted. They are in the business of selling news, not good feelings.
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And the father is well within his rights to tell the paper to fuck off the next time they want an interview.
 
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Steve19;2291162; said:
Comes back for his senior year. Handles the loss of his grandmother and girlfriend on same day. Never gets in trouble for alcohol- or drug-related problems. Doesn't get into any brawls or sexually-abuse any girls. Keeps himself academically-eligible.
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So, in other words, he did what millions of other college students managed to also accomplish last year. The notion that this is somehow a means to celebrate him just underscores the very low bar among ncaa football and mbball players around the nation.
 
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He was hyped as a player that missed zero tackles the entire season. The level of hyperbole throughout the year inflated a good LB into a supposed Heisman candidate.

Notre Dame got demolished. His son is the face of the defense that got obliterated. There's no way to publish that without making ND & Teo lookk badly.

The dad is allowed to be angry. That doesn't make it a reasonable criticism.


"Next time, would you please make us look bad instead of humiliated? Thanks"
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2291225; said:
So, in other words, he did what millions of other college students managed to also accomplish last year. The notion that this is somehow a means to celebrate him just underscores the very low bar among ncaa football and mbball players around the nation.
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Yes. He could have gone pro. He didn't. I didn't jump on his train. In fact I said something very different. I'm just saying that a lot of what he did would have been celebrated if it had been one of our own.
 
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Steve19;2291427; said:
They struggled badly against a five-loss middle feeder B1G team.
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So did Ohio State.

Wisconsin lost three games in overtime & four games by a field goal (the fifth was a seven pt loss). The Badgers weren't a push over by any stretch.

Stanford won close games for the same reason that Jim Tressel won close games, it's a product of their basic philosophy (and Wisconsin gave his teams fits for the same reason).
 
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