Notre Dame football cares way more about an imaginary dead girl than a real one

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Meh - "The only one really hurt in this scandal is Manti Te'o" - no, he lied about it

Notre Dame said Te'o found out that Kekua was not a real person through a phone call he received at an awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 6. He told Notre Dame coaches about the situation on Dec. 26.

The AP's media review turned up two instances during that gap when the football star mentioned Kekua in public.

Te'o was in New York for the Heisman presentation on Dec. 8 and, during an interview before the ceremony that ran on the WSBT.com, the website for a South Bend TV station, Te'o said: "I mean, I don't like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer. So I've really tried to go to children's hospitals and see, you know, children."

In a column that first ran in The Los Angeles Times, on Dec. 10, Te'o recounted why he played a few days after he found out Kekua died in September, and the day she was supposedly buried.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/hoax-manti-teo-girlfriend-interviews_n_2499584.html?utm_hp_ref=sports&icid=maing-grid7|maing8|dl1|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D258643

So as well as pretending shortly after her 'death', apparently including to his own family, he had met her in person, he kept making stuff up about it, even after he says he was aware it was a hoax.

As for 'bashing' ND - this OP brings up a real problem with how the university handled a genuine problem to do with its sports program. And it looks ugly.