of george gipp asking the team to win one for the gipper. there's a history of notre dame trying to present the program as larger than life and more noble than life and seems to be a particularly spectacular instance of the mythology out matching the facts. >> i think it's also a spectacular instance of negligence on the part of the media. you folks excluded. a lot of folks in the media, venerable institutions, reporting this story as it was -- as if it were true taking completely as fact a lot of assertions made by manti te'o himself and other folks around him. and, i'm just wondering, you know, if i'm an editor and i have been in that position before and i hear this amazing story of manti te'o and his beautiful stanford girlfriend, i mean, i'm dispatching a reporter to stanford right away to meet this girl, get her on camera, talk to her. why did that never happen? >> that's one of the great mysteries. i think a lot of it has to do with how thin the resources really are. when we first got this tip that she had never existed, it seemed comp