Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o appears to be like over the BYU offense as BYU and Notre Dame play Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in South Bend. Notre Dame gained 17-14. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Former Notre Dame and NFL linebacker Manti Te’o is again within the information this week after Netflix launched a documentary on his catfishing saga. The movie has introduced renewed consideration to his faculty profession, which was adopted carefully by many BYU followers.
As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and extremely rated highschool participant, Te’o was on BYU’s radar, and he even visited Provo earlier than committing to Notre Dame.
However that go to was one amongst many; within the Netflix documentary, Te’o notes that he was recruited by nearly 50 faculties.
From the start, Te’o was most within the College of Southern California, this system he’d cherished since he was a child. He says within the documentary that he instructed his dad and mom and mates he’d be taking part in for USC earlier than asking God for assurance that doing so can be the fitting transfer.
“I instructed my household I used to be going to go to SC. My dad was like, ‘OK. That’s good. Be sure you pray about it.’ The subsequent day, I’m sitting at school and I say, ‘Heavenly father, I wish to go to SC. However if you'd like me to go some place else, assist me.’”
Quickly after providing that prayer, Te’o ran right into a mentor and pal who’d helped information him all through his highschool soccer profession. Te’o instructed him he deliberate to decide to USC, however the man’s response stopped him in his tracks.
“He was like, ‘You’re going to go to SC, and also you’re going to be the following nice Polynesian soccer participant. I simply at all times thought you’d go to a spot like Notre Dame and be the one Manti Te’o,’” Te’o recalled for Netflix.
Te’o stated that he understood the person’s remark to be a message from God.
“I stood up. I walked out of the room and I knew. ... I knew that the Lord was attempting to inform me one thing,” he stated.
The Deseret Information wrote about this prayer story in 2012, noting that turning down faculties like USC and BYU weighed closely on Te’o’s coronary heart, at the same time as he felt assured that Notre Dame was the fitting alternative.
“It’s a kind of issues the place you by no means know till a couple of years later in case you made the fitting choice,” stated Te’o’s highschool coach Kale Ane, about Te’o saying no to BYU.
Te’o stated on the time that a part of the method of praying for steerage is being brave sufficient to abide by the reply you obtain.
“My dad at all times instructed me, the toughest factor when asking the Lord for recommendation is just not essentially getting in your knees and praying, however having the braveness to comply with by with the reply that you simply obtain,” Te’o stated in 2012, in keeping with the Deseret Information.