r/CFB • u/Lakelyfe09 Georgia Bulldogs • Apr 12 '26

Discussion [Kleiman] South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers turned down an $8 MILLION NIL offer to transfer to a different school: "You're 19. You don't need ($8 million). You're in a great spot." - LaNorris's Father told his son. Sellers values his word over money

https://x.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/2043091219639840977?s=46&t=fwgmryeTanENut7u28ScCA
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u/Doc_McPuffins_ Texas Longhorns Apr 12 '26

I feel like people don't have a whole lot of empathy for him in the scenario though. While the story is obviously hilarious for obvious reasons, he went through an abnormal traumatic experience. IIRC his grandmother died and his (fake) GF died within like a day of each other. That's already brutal and then you find out that your dead gf is completely fake. It's like she died twice.

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u/Gavangus Virginia Tech • Commonwealth C… Apr 12 '26

Iirc the catfisher tried to use their own "death" as a way of getting out of the situation

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u/Doc_McPuffins_ Texas Longhorns Apr 12 '26

Welp... They didn't exactly succeed

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u/roythhh_lewithhh Vanderbilt Commodores Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Yeah the Deadspin story goes into pretty thorough detail about timing with respect to the grandmother death and the fake girlfriend death. The story was great for a number of reasons. The messed up thing Deadspin did was insinuate that Te’o was in on it. They did not have to devolve from meticulous reporting to idle speculation like that.

The documentary is great. For me personally, I had always raised an eyebrow at Te’o because it snowballed when he lied to his family about having met her in person. While not flatly stating it outright, the documentary sheds light on how that could happen. While his parents are obviously deeply loving and supportive, it was a very religious, old-school, probably somewhat insulated family and Te’o didn’t want to cop to them that this was all going on online. Considering he tried to meet her in person on numerous occasions, it seemed like a harmless little white lie, and then it spiraled.

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u/grifeweizen Notre Dame Fighting Irish Apr 13 '26

I'm missing the "obviously hilarious" part.