Comments about ‘Who is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man allegedly behind Lennay Kekua, Manti Te'o's non-existent dead girlfriend? (Updated)’

Teo's mistake was forgetting he'd have a hard time finding an LDS Poly in South Bend. That he had an emotional attachment with an online girl is not stunning...eHarmony and Match make a fortune with people falling in love who never met. Teo had few options other than online.

Once he learned the whole thing was a hoax, I imagine he informed Kelly and the AD wanting to know what to do. Anybody really believe the Domers would call a press conference and come clean, with all the love they'd gotten from the media and a game with 'Bama on the horizon? They probably told Teo to let it slide, ride it out, and allow the whole thing to go away as he rode into the west with a possible Heisman and an NFL contract under his arm. And oh, by the way, Notre Dame could continue to enjoy all that newly acquired glory without tarnish. The kid probably followed orders under some pressure, as well as a ton of guilt.

I expect the Irish to throw him under the bus if there is any chance they get exposed in a coverup; yet again a victim.

And how long will it be until we find out that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo isn't real either?

When one studies Polynesian history and culture, it becomes apparent that something known as "Talk Story" has always been very important to Hawaiians, Samoans, Tongans, and other island people. Others around the world have passed down stories, and made up stories in hopes of assisting "their people" throughout thousands of years.
Are today's Polynesian families following these ancient traditions?
Could others, acquainted with this culture, have possibly spotted this strange situation as falling into this category?
Stranger things have happened.....

Who cares! My word, let this thing go. It is much to do about nothing. Leave the kid alone. The media needs to find a new whipping boy. I have a real good idea. Each week, lets pick one media type, reporter, TV person, etc and carefully vet their lives, jobs, friends, etc. Should produce great reading material for these no news day.

Over done, finished.

I wish the people in the media could learn to say Te'o correctly. It doesn't rhyme with cow.
He said in the ESPN interview that he wasn't a hundred percent sure she didn't exist until a few days ago. Maybe he thought she existed, but that he got played by other people pretending to be her.
He said in another interview after he first learned that something was up, when someone asked him what inspired him, and he said his girlfriend's death. Even though he now knew that it was some kind of hoax and that he had been lied to, thinking that the girl existed but wasn't really dead, he still was correct in saying that the "death" had inspired him.