Te’o, she said, is a revered figure around campus. As four television satellite trucks idled outside Notre Dame Stadium, Kate Christian, a 19-year-old sophomore from San Francisco, said she was flabbergasted. On Thursday, the Te’o story was the talk of the campus. “That was a risk we always knew existed.”
“I wish the first opportunity to tell the story had been Manti’s, but it didn’t work out,” Swarbrick said. Ultimately, after considering student privacy concerns, Notre Dame decided that it was Teo’s “story to tell” first, Swarbrick said, and he had planned to tell it next week before the Web site Deadspin broke the news Wednesday.
At the same time, university officials were grappling with whether they should go public with the story. Two days later, Te’o and Notre Dame appeared in the national title game against Alabama, where he played poorly, and the Fighting Irish were crushed, 42-14.Īfter Te’o and his parents were made aware of the findings of the investigation, it was up to them to contact law enforcement if they felt it was necessary, Swarbrick said. Those decisions, Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said, were Te’o’s to make, and his alone. Even then, after determining a sophisticated ruse had been under way - the intentions of which remained unclear after the investigation - Notre Dame officials did not notify law enforcement or correct the public record regarding Te’o’s girlfriend. Instead, the university hired its own private-investigation firm and waited nine days for its report. In its attempt to unravel that puzzle, Notre Dame decided not to approach law enforcement. 7? Or was this some sort of bizarre situation with a motive not yet considered?
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Could Te’o be the target of an extortion plot? Could someone be trying to influence the outcome of games, especially the Bowl Championship Series title game the Fighting Irish were scheduled to be play on Jan. The possible implications of that were not immediately clear. 26 and revealed that he had been the victim of an elaborate hoax, that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who had died of leukemia in September, never existed. Notre Dame officials realized the stakes were high when Manti Te’o, the football team’s star linebacker, came to them Dec.
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