'09 HI LB Manti Te'o (Notre Dame Man)

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My cousins and I made sure to buy tickets to wake forest so we could be there for his last home game.
 
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Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere but this video gave me goosebumps. Diaco really has a way with words and you can tell how much respect he has for Manti. He truly is a great player and person. Really going to miss Manti after this year. IMO he is a once in a lifetime player when you consider his impact on and off the field.
 
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I fvckon love Bob Diaco.

He speaks to me as Hitler did to his Nazis.

I'm buying everything he says,

Period.

Minus the war crimes.

Until USC.
 
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I have been watching Notre Dame football since 1964 and in that time period no other player has meant more to his team at Notre Dame. This guy deserves to be in the Heisman conversation and maybe with the crazy way espn does things they'll tell his story. After all espn controls the Heisman and I'm tired of seeing the award go to a spread offense QB. This guy is what college football is. I said 2 years ago it would take Notre Dame to be on a roll. Looks like thats the case and maybe the voters are getting tired of long handoff QB's. This is one time I'd like to see espn pull some strings and do the right thing. College football could use a proper superman.
 
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Got the Baltimore Orioles SI cover. Unbelievable. Do Orioles fans even give a **** about the Orioles? .
 
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I just joined the site a month ago but looking at the posts throughout his recruitment four years sure goes by fast. It seems like yesterday he delivered that big hit against Nevada. I feel grateful to see Manti play for the blue and gold and I have loved every moment of it.
 
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Manti has been nominated for the National Football Foundation's Scholar Athlete of the Year award: William V. Campbell Trophy

147 Student-Athletes Named Semifinalists for National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy > National Football Foundation > NewsDetail

Definitely a front-runner for this one!

Manti's nomination is great, but my younger brother was also nominated for the award this year to represent his university: Depauw University (Division III). So proud to see him on that list, and so cool to see him mentioned in an award alongside Manti. VERY COOL! Needless to say, Manti is my second choice for winning this award haha
 
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I haven't seen this anywhere on here, but sorry if I'm bringing up something that has already been discussed.

What does 574L mean? Manti has #574L at the end of many of his tweets and I just realized he has it on the belt of his uniform as well. I was just interested in what kind of significance that had. Does anyone have any insight on this?
 
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I haven't seen this anywhere on here, but sorry if I'm bringing up something that has already been discussed.

What does 574L mean? Manti has #574L at the end of many of his tweets and I just realized he has it on the belt of his uniform as well. I was just interested in what kind of significance that had. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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574 is the area code in south bend. who knows?
 
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irishtrain said:
I have been watching Notre Dame football since 1964 and in that time period no other player has meant more to his team at Notre Dame. This guy deserves to be in the Heisman conversation and maybe with the crazy way espn does things they'll tell his story. After all espn controls the Heisman and I'm tired of seeing the award go to a spread offense QB. This guy is what college football is. I said 2 years ago it would take Notre Dame to be on a roll. Looks like thats the case and maybe the voters are getting tired of long handoff QB's. This is one time I'd like to see espn pull some strings and do the right thing. College football could use a proper superman.
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dear god, someone with a brain...i love it...BUT, he's gonna have to be colorful to up the ratings...jeez
 
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The BMOC surveys Manti Te'o, season trends, Gene Chizik, Heisman race and more - ESPN

I don't know if the Notre Dame senior linebacker is the best player in college football, or the best defensive player, or even the best linebacker. I do know he's on every one of those short lists.

I also know that you can't fully explain why a kid from Hawaii, who is a devout member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, who isn't crazy about the cold, who couldn't pick out South Bend, Ind., on a U.S. map during his recruitment, still ended up at the nation's most famous Catholic university, Notre Dame (84 percent of the student body is Catholic, less than 1 percent is Mormon). And the truth is, Te'o couldn't fully explain it until recently.

You likely have heard the heartbreaking story by now: Last month, in the span of six hours, Te'o learned that his maternal grandmother, as well as his longtime girlfriend, had died. His grandmother, Annette Santiago, passed away after an extended illness. And his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, succumbed to leukemia.

"After the loss of two women who I really love, I think that's where my faith grew stronger -- because I understood what life was all about," Te'o said. "I've always spoken about memories and about coming back to school because of memories. But it wasn't until I lost that, that I realized that life [is] just all about experiences. It's all about experiences that you have [with] the people you love. It puts things in perspective."

The response and support from teammates, fellow Notre Dame students, faculty and staff, Notre Dame alums, opposing players, other coaches and perfect strangers has been overwhelming. He has received hundreds of handwritten letters, prayer cards and sympathy cards from all around the country.

At the coin toss before the Michigan game, Wolverines quarterback Denard Robinson offered his condolences. Kansas coach Charlie Weis, who (along with Brian Polian) helped recruit Te'o and then coached him during his freshman season, has regularly texted Manti and his father during this ordeal.

Ask Te'o if he can articulate why he now knows he made the right decision to come to Notre Dame, he says: "I can only show you. If you were here for the Michigan game, you would see why."

That was the game in which almost the entire stadium was filled with people wearing leis in honor of Te'o, his grandmother and his girlfriend. It is a sight Te'o will never forget.

"Just love," he said. "It looked like love. It was love."
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Four years ago, USC was considered the recruiting leader for Te'o. Notre Dame? At the time, Te'o couldn't even find it on a U.S. map.

"I probably would have circled the whole U.S. and said, 'Somewhere in there."'

His official recruiting visit came on Nov. 22, 2008, the same weekend that Notre Dame was upset by Syracuse. The low temperature that day was 11 degrees.

"Possibly the coldest day of my life," Te'o said.

That was the game Fighting Irish fans booed and threw snowballs at the Notre Dame bench.

"I left at halftime ... because it was too cold," he said. "Watched the game on TV while another recruit and I were playing video games."

He had a long time to think on the flight back to Hawaii.

"If you would have asked me on the plane if I would go to Notre Dame, I'd probably say no," Te'o said.

But he did eventually sign with Notre Dame, leaving some friends and family in Hawaii stunned by the decision. The operative words were, "You're nuts."

"I think the entire island was telling him that," said Te'o dad, Brian. "I was actually rooting for Notre Dame. My research led me to believe that Notre Dame was the place for him, and so I quietly kept that to myself."

Said Weis: "How a Mormon kid came to a Catholic school, just didn't seem like it would be a normal fit. But who doesn't like Manti?

"Son of a gun, the guy took the challenge, stepped up and he's going to leave there as one of the greatest defensive players who ever played at Notre Dame -- and that's saying a lot."

Can he win the Heisman Trophy? Don't hold your breath. But Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is right to suggest that Te'o belongs in the conversation, that he's worthy of such consideration. And he's right, of course.

"He's recognized as the rock of our football team," Kelly said.

Te'o reacts to this sort of talk in his usual way, which is to put up the deflector shields.

"Just to be mentioned with the Heisman and to be a defensive player is just humbling," he said. "It shows I'm headed in the right direction. I still have a lot of work to do, but I'm headed in the right direction."
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My hetero-dude crush for Manti grows daily. I think my wife is worried by how much I talk about him. Just a GREAT kid.
 
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That was too funny! OMG I laughed out loud. People in my office are looking at me and appear somewhat afraid.
 
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Notre Dame's Manti Te'o: College football's best defensive player - NFL.com

Manti Te'o is the best defensive player in college football, and it's not even close.

While fans of Georgia's Jarvis Jones, South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney and several others might take umbrage with that statement, I will not back down from my assessment after watching the Notre Dame star dominate another game from his linebacker position.
Every Monday, NFL.com college football expert Bucky Brooks looks back on the weekend action and evaluates which prospects are rising and which are sliding.

Te'o finished with 11 tackles and a ton of teeth-rattling hits, helping Notre Dame notch a 20-13 overtime win against Stanford on Saturday. While he didn't come up with a game-changing turnover or force Stanford to lose any yards, Te'o was an integral part of a defense that controlled the line of scrimmage against a Cardinal squad that routinely overwhelms opponents with its physical running game.

Closely watching Te'o throughout the game, I came away impressed with his athleticism, aggressiveness and instincts. He flowed quickly to the ball and delivered punishing shots on runners in the hole. Most importantly, Te'o was the pivotal player on the game-clinching goal-line stand that kept Stanford's Stepfan Taylor from reaching the end zone on four consecutive plays inside the Irish 5-yard line. I broke down that four-play sequence; Te'o was in the middle of the action throughout. He repeatedly finished off Taylor before he could get the ball across the plane. Te'o's willingness to lay big hits on the runner kept the Cardinal star from reaching paydirt with the game on the line.

Te'o's standout production against Stanford can be added to an impressive senior résumé that includes superb performances against Navy (eight tackles, a fumble recovery and an interception), Michigan (eight tackles and two interceptions) and Michigan State (12 tackles). It's hard to find many issues or concerns about Te'o's ability to develop into a difference maker at the next level.
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Manti won the Lott player of the week for a third time.
 
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