First off, thanks James for the recent comment. It made me think of spam musubi. Has anyone here ever had one before? It's simply plain slice of spam with a little bit of rice wrapped in seaweed and wam-bam you got spam musubi.

Now the question in my mind is... Is Manti Te'o the equivalent of spam musubi?




I had spam musubi from the lovely island of Hawaii. They serve it in many different flavors in a wide variety of ways. It's really quite a treat eating it with the locals on the island. Now, brought here to the mainland by places like L&L BBQ and you get a much plainer version. Maybe it's plain because there's no need to fancy it up for us burger and fry eating folks, or maybe it's plain because we have so many other things here to choose from that spam musubi is just a weird slice of meat from a can wrapped by a man in a small restaurant in Japan. (remember the peaches song? anyway...)

Most people here on the main land don't even know what spam musubi is. While I think they are great, most people here probably don't see anything special about it. Now this leads me to Manti Te'o. Great on the little island, but how will his talents translate here on the main land where he will have more competition. I mean at my local gym, I have made some Lebron James type of plays against the old folks, but if I bring my game to Rucker Park I'll be a Kwame Brown sitting on the bench.

So is Manti Te'o as good as advertised or did he just look great because he was playing weak competition. Honestly, I don't know. Most of these star recruits played with a lot of weak competition. They played with kids that just wanted to do an extra curricular activity after school. The point is, they were good enough to stand out. Manti Te'o stood out. Now will he be plain spam musubi here on the main land? Well if he's the food and the coach is the cook, I'm sure Pete Carroll can make a better spam masubi that Weiss who would probably just eat it. Read the full story

Pete did a great job and put together a good looking class. Sadly, it could've been so much better. Landing Manti Te'o would have made good become great. It's like getting 5 out of the 6 numbers on the lottery. We still get a big payout, but getting just one more number would've really made us feel like we hit a huge jackpot.

It's really quite a surprise to many that Te'o chose Notre Dame over USC. I would've been less surprised if he picked UCLA because of the Norm Chow connection and being close to Hawaii. Notre Dame??? Coached by Weiss? The school that takes highly touted and talented high school kids that don't develop in to NFL players. For these high school football stars, isn't the NFL the primary goal?

Usually when a high profile player passes up USC it's because of fear of competition. They're afraid they wont get enough playing time. In some cases it's because they're afraid they'll have a hard time with school. Some don't want to be too far from home. So again.. Why Notre Dame?

USC needs linebackers. Manti Te'o would have played for sure during his freshman year. So it's not playing time. I would academics is equally challenging if not more challenging at Notre Dame. So it can't be that. USC is much closer to home while Notre Dame is thousands of miles away.

It just really makes no sense to me. USC just had three of its linebackers impress NFL teams during the Senior Bowl. Pete prepares his players for the NFL - from 5 star prospects to walk ons. Just for that fact I was sure Manti was coming, but I guess everyone sees things their own way. Everyone has their own preference. Manti Te'o picking the Irish over the Trojans may not make any sense to us, but I guess it makes enough sense to him.

So I saw a Toyota Echo on the freeway today. In my mind, it's the ugliest car I've ever seen on the road. Well the person driving it thought it was nice, and Manti Te'o thinks Notre Dame is nice. Go figure Read the full story