The Salt Lake Tribune
Friday, April 17, 2009
Gipper, meet Teo
Charlie Weis is counting heavily on Notre Dame's first Mormon player to save his job. CBS Sports Dennis Dodd says ND's coach was near being fired last season and has to achieve a major turnaround to survive the 2009.

Weis hopes that Manti Teo, a Mormon high school kid from Hawaii, will tip ND in the direction of his salvation:
A top-line defensive player is something that has escaped us.
Writes Dodd:
Weis snagged five-star linebacker out of [Hawaii], beating USC and BYU among others for what is believed to be the first Mormon in the program. A Mormon at a Catholic school is far less of a talking point than getting the defense shored up. Manti Teo could start from the jump.
posted by gwarchol @ 7:00 AM |

1 Comments:

At April 17, 2009 9:10 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't get Teo to N.D. at all. If he didn't want BYU, why not go to a warm place and a superior program that's closer to home: USC. Makes no sense.

 

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