BOL Round Table

Manti Te'o, ILB, Notre Dame: 6-2, 255. Compared by one scout to St. Louis MLB James Laurinaitis. "A better version of that," he said. "Not a great athlete. Try-hard. Smart. This was the first year he really got himself in shape. Some of his teammates think he's kind of a phony." The scout made his comment in early December before his bizarre online love relationship was uncovered as a hoax. "He is a tad immature," another scout said last week. "When he comes in the locker room he is going to get abused for about the first month. For a (middle) linebacker you would want him to be more physical and make more plays against the run. He got smoked (against Alabama). He's not explosive but he's got instincts like (Brian) Urlacher."

That guy talking about warmack is a fool!

You lost? This isnt the Notre Dame board. Its fine to talk about other teams and other players, but some of you need to give it a break on this Te'o stuff. People forget these are still kids even though theyre about to get payed big, and they still make stupid mistakes. At least he wasnt out Bashing kids faces in and stealing their credit cards to get some cookies from the snack machine. Just give it a rest.

There is a reason these guys are scouts and not GMs, coaches or directors of player personnel. And if you look at some of the teams they scout for you can see that most of the time they don't really know what they're doing. RTR.