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

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31 LB Manti Te'o Notre Dame Sr. 6-2 255
(Dependent on outcome of Super Bowl). Not sure where the draft stock of Te'o will settle after the well-chronicled tale of his hoax of a dying internet girlfriend becomes yesterday's news, but NFL executives I talked to last week were taking a wait-and-see approach. Te'o is a tackling machine and he finds the football in the takeaway department, too, but him getting run over in embarrassing fashion against Alabama had to give some teams pause about his overall game. At the bottom of the first round, however, Ozzie Newsome and Co. might consider him a steal of a replacement for the retired Ray Lewis.


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That sentence just might be the biggest farce in all of this.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2296344; said:
That sentence just might be the biggest farce in all of this.
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The "finds the football" is even worse. T'eo has 7 career interceptions and 1 career fumble recovery while forcing 2 in his career. With the exception of the two FFs, ALL of those came in 2012.
With the exception of his freshman year to his Soph. year his tackles went down each season as well. here
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2296344; said:
That sentence just might be the biggest farce in all of this.
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Exactly. Here's stats on two Middle LBs from 2012. Both seniors. One finished second in the Heisman voting. The other one you've never heard of. Guess which is Te'o's:

Player #1
Total Tackles - 111
Solo Tackles - 49
Asst. Tackles - 62
Sacks - 1.5
Interceptions - 7

Player #2
Total Tackles - 109
Solo Tackles - 37
Asst. Tackles - 72
Sacks - 3
Interceptions - 1

Player #1 played the #21 rated Strength of Schedule according to Sagarin. Player #2 played the #20 SOS. Comparable opponents, comparable stats, but one guy got further in the Heisman voting than any other defensive player in the history of the award, and the other guy wasn't even mentioned for post-season awards.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2296356; said:
Gadz.... Just did a little poking to see if I was correct in my remark that the tackling machine BS was not as bad as the nose for the football BS...

T'eo was 57th in tackles per game at 8.69... just behind Mauti's 8.73 per.
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God rest his soul.

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This post is for you, Mike! :(
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2296348; said:
The "finds the football" is even worse. T'eo has 7 career interceptions and 1 career fumble recovery while forcing 2 in his career. With the exception of the two FFs, ALL of those came in 2012.
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Three or four of those INTs were thrown right fucking at him...
 
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Woody1968;2296435; said:
The only thing that could make this story any weirder is if it turns out that Tuiasosopo is actually biologically female, and that s/he really was the voice on the other end of the phone...
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What keeps me fascinated with this story is that you know Manti is still lying and thinking his latest lie will get him through. Some version of the truth will come out. This is not some trivial issue like whether Iraq had WMD. The media will not let it go until they have squeezed out the last drop - and incremental steps to the story is precisely what the media wants.
 
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Did someone say The Voice?

http://popdust.com/2013/01/18/did-the-guy-behind-the-manti-teo-girlfriend-hoax-audition-for-the-voice/

Now, according to Us Weekly, NBC?s singing competition The Voice has been drawn into the story, sort of; apparently Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who has been fingered as the man behind the persona of Te?o's nonexistent online paramour Lennay Kekua, tried out for this season of the show. Us also reports that, like every singing competition hopeful worth their screen time, he had a sob story for the judges:

According to the source, Tuiasosopo told producers he and his cousins started a Christian band together and were on their way to perform at a youth conference in Nevada when they got into a ?massive? car accident. He claimed a truck crashed into their vehicle, sending them flip-flopping all over the freeway. He also said doctors thought one of them might have been brain-dead, but miraculously, everyone was fine.
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