Official Manti Te'o only plays well against teams from the Big East and B1G thread

[DoubleDeuce]

That's not what you're saying?

solid backpedal

That isn't what I'm saying. You're just stupid.

 

[NAHSTE]

So you're saying being a good person doesn't help?

Not as much as other things, like being the best player. Or as is often the case with the Heisman, the best quarterback on a winning team.

 

[Jayrock]

Not as much as other things, like being the best player. Or as is often the case with the Heisman, the best quarterback on a winning team.

If ND can keep winning, albeit unlikely, and Optimus Klein slips up somewhere, Te'o will win. He's easily in second right now.

Besides, this thread is more an all things Manti thread more than it is about him winning the Heisman. That story is awesome and heartbreaking. The world needs more Manti's.

 

[Jayrock]

 

[kmanharris]

If ND can keep winning, albeit unlikely, and Optimus Klein slips up somewhere, Te'o will win. He's easily in second right now.

Besides, this thread is more an all things Manti thread more than it is about him winning the Heisman. That story is awesome and heartbreaking. The world needs more Manti's.

Posted in the "Manti Te'o Heisman Campaign" thread.

:tellmemore:

 

[nwfisch]

Next Urlacher I swear.

 

[Jayrock]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/01/3078370/manti-teo-notre-dame-shining-light.html

If Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o doesn’t win the Heisman Trophy, the Heisman Trust should just melt down the award and sell it for scrap.

Te’o isn’t just the most outstanding player in the country this season, he’s the heart and soul of everything we want the sport to be, a glimmer of hope amid the scrap yard of moral and educational decay that is college football.

Notre Dame is ranked No. 3 this week in the BCS and represents a shining beacon amid the swill. With any luck, the Irish will run the table the rest of the season and play Alabama in the national title game in Miami. College football could use a public relations boost and Te’o provides that.

Te’o, as a Heisman Trophy winner, and the Irish, in an underdog role against Alabama in Miami, are exactly what college football needs after two years of filth.

College football continues to suffer one disgusting story after another — Mississippi State’s indecent proposal to Cam Newton’s father, the lies and arrogance of Jim Tressel, the institutional criminality of Penn State, the fleecing of Miami by a conman, abuse of power by Bobby Petrino. Let’s face it: the sport in its current rotting form is a breeding ground of maggots.

Compromised by money and power, coaches are a lost cause at this point. Fire them all and start over, as far as I’m concerned. Show me a coach with a high moral code and I’ll show you some smoke reflected in a mirror.

Players are different, though. There’s a purity about some collegiate athletes — and I’m talking here about the people interested in receiving an education while playing sports for a university — that cannot be compromised by money and power. Tim Tebow was this way and so is Te’o.

We can learn something from these student-athletes and use it to fix major college football. The ultimate goal would be to transform the sport into a breeding ground for American leadership on a massive scale. I realize this is foolhardy given the current climate of the sport — I mean, not that anything is wrong with everyone on a football team majoring in idiot-ology — but that’s the dream.

Recent reforms by the NCAA will eventually help to remove some of the disingenuous byproducts of a sport built upon a foundation of unpaid labor, embarrassingly absent admission standards and $2 million coaching contracts. Until then, we have resurgent Notre Dame and Te’o to remind us that, yes, excellent football can be played at a school that values things like, you know, an education.

When Te’o led his defense last week in a dominating effort against Oklahoma, it was a win for college football. It was a victory not because Notre Dame is a national brand and the school has thousands and thousands of fans in major television markets. It was a victory because a school that maintains at least some semblance of educational requirements for athletes can indeed not only compete on the same field as a school that does not but whip that school up and down the field.

Notre Dame was a 10-point dog against the Sooners in Norman, Okla. The Irish won 30-13 and Te’o had 11 tackles and a game-clinching interception. On the season, Te’o has 72 tackles and five interceptions. He has done more than enough to qualify himself for the Heisman in a year where quality offensive candidates are hard to come by.

Notre Dame’s resurgence has been celebrated in Indianapolis, where the NCAA has received plenty of backlash for its new academic requirements for incoming freshmen. Of course, it’s not like the new requirements are difficult or anything. It’s just that there will actually now be a bare minimum requirement to keep out the dummies and develop the deserving into contributing members of society.

Currently, there are large numbers of college football players, who, academically, do not belong in college. For example: about 30 percent of Kansas State’s roster is made up of JUCO transfers. When the NCAA’s new academic requirements for incoming freshmen go in effect in 2016, schools of K-State’s ilk will either (a) not be able to field football teams anymore or (b) be so uncompetitive that a move to a lower division might be inevitable.

Meanwhile, schools like Notre Dame will be posed for prosperous times. If that means more players like Te’o, I’m all for it.

 

[Villain]

Since the would-be QB favorites are all doing shitty and there really isn't some amazing RB out there, it's the perfect year for a defensive player to win.

 

[DoubleDeuce]

Since the would-be QB favorites are all doing shitty and there really isn't some amazing RB out there, it's the perfect year for a defensive player to win.

 

[NAHSTE]

Klein is easily the guy as of now. Also, if Bama goes undefeated, McCarron will finish higher than Te'o. For one, he's played flawlessly and for two, QB + best team = Heisman.

 

[Jayrock]

Klein is easily the guy as of now. Also, if Bama goes undefeated, McCarron will finish higher than Te'o. For one, he's played flawlessly and for two, QB + best team = Heisman.

oh

 

[Sharkweather]

for two, QB + best team = Heisman.

Which is why this award/trophy is enormously flawed, and why these campaigns are silly every season.

 

[Cornelius]

This thread is gayer than that thread where dude posted a love story about Ricky Williams on Maddenmania

 

[Jayrock]

This thread is gayer than that thread where dude posted a love story about Ricky Williams on Maddenmania

oh sorry

 

[Jayrock]

jaycock you are a fucking retard. you dont think miller has a shot due to the poor OSU schedule, but you actually think a ND defensive player has some sort of chance.

now i know why people think you are such a cunt

oh lol

According to voters at the mothership, Te'o is 8th behind Geno, EJ Manuel, Collin Klein, DeAnthony Thomas (meh), Braxton Miller (lol), Aaron Murray (lol), Matt Barkley (lol)

lol @ espn

 

[Deegeezy]

Notre Dame would HAVE to go undefeated for Te'O to have any legit shot. There is no way he beats Klein if his team loses. It's a shame that it works this way, but unfortunately, it does.

 

[Hasselbeck]

As a USC fan, it still stings a little bit that Manti isn't a Trojan. I don't think he will win the award ultimately, but what a great story all around.

 

[Jayrock]

Manti not winning this award would only prove what a sham the Heisman has become.

Whatever, give it to Johnny Footbaw he's so good he beat God's team and he plays in the SEC!!!1!1!11!!!!oneone!111!!!!

 

[DoubleDeuce]

Manti not winning this award would only prove what a sham the Heisman has become.

Whatever, give it to Johnny Footbaw he's so good he beat God's team and he plays in the SEC!!!1!1!11!!!!oneone!111!!!!

What makes Te'o more qualified than Johnny Football? Not saying he isn't, just wanting to hear your argument.

Also, Cam winning proved what a sham the Heisman has become, because they completely ignored the 'good character' aspect. Even Mark Ingram winning proved it, though not for the character issues.

 

[NAHSTE]

Manti not winning this award would only prove what a sham the Heisman has become.

Whatever, give it to Johnny Footbaw he's so good he beat God's team and he plays in the SEC!!!1!1!11!!!!oneone!111!!!!

-Award has always been a sham. LOL at you for taking it this seriously.
-Mr. Football will have more total yards than either Cam or Tebow had during their Heisman campaigns. He's well deserving.