Manti Te’o deserves credit for coming out the other side and thriving

There is a clock somewhere, still ticking, still measuring the distance between who Manti Te’o was on the night of Jan. 7, 2013, and who he is now. That night, Alabama dismantled Notre Dame 42-14 in the BCS National Championship in Miami, and Te’o finished with 10 tackles in a game that never had a…