[pincemob]

The Sports Illustrated writer's transcript is pretty interesting.. Te'o shares quite a tale.  If you believe Te'o/ND's side of the story, the actors on the other end had basically full-time jobs, day and night working this hoax.  There had to be multiple men and women involved.  Very, very hard to believe Te'o didn't invent most of this stuff, in my opinion. 

There is a Stanford wrinkle I hadn't heard below.. seems our media relations guy was suspicious and caused the S.I. writer to remove any reference to Stanford. 

I called Mike Eubanks at Stanford to check Kekua's graduation year. Te'o wasn't sure if it was 2010 or 2011. Eubanks is an assistant athletic director for football and he coordinates on-campus recruiting visits. He knew Te'o from Stanford recruiting him in 2008 and '09 -- Stanford had gone after him hard. Eubanks, who directed Stanford's football media relations this season, couldn't find her in the alumni directory and thought it was odd that, on such a small campus, he'd never heard of a student dating Te'o. This was the most glaring sign I missed. I thought that maybe she didn't graduate, so we took any reference to Stanford out of the story.


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college...z2IIRJUtmv

[pincemob]

The Sports Illustrated writer's transcript is pretty interesting.. Te'o shares quite a tale.  If you believe Te'o/ND's side of the story, the actors on the other end had basically full-time jobs, day and night working this hoax.  There had to be multiple men and women involved.  Very, very hard to believe Te'o didn't invent most of this stuff, in my opinion. 

There is a Stanford wrinkle I hadn't heard below.. seems our media relations guy was suspicious and caused the S.I. writer to remove any reference to Stanford. 

I called Mike Eubanks at Stanford to check Kekua's graduation year. Te'o wasn't sure if it was 2010 or 2011. Eubanks is an assistant athletic director for football and he coordinates on-campus recruiting visits. He knew Te'o from Stanford recruiting him in 2008 and '09 -- Stanford had gone after him hard. Eubanks, who directed Stanford's football media relations this season, couldn't find her in the alumni directory and thought it was odd that, on such a small campus, he'd never heard of a student dating Te'o. This was the most glaring sign I missed. I thought that maybe she didn't graduate, so we took any reference to Stanford out of the story.


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college...z2IIRJUtmv