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Originally Posted by Riverman
Story is just a prefect encapsulation of Notre Dame's whole program. A media-aided fraud.
Yup. No way the media wasn't at least very suspicious.
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Originally Posted by Riverman
ND seems to be pretty obviously screwing up by releasing any statement at this point. Like, they don't seem to understand how the internet works. The whole truth is going to come out here, pretending that they can make it go away by issuing some bull**** statement is totally ******ed but not at all surprising given that it is ND we're talking about.
Meh, I think ND's play here is to pretend that they buy that it was a hoax even if they know better. They may suck at everything else but they are expert at covering **** up.
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Originally Posted by Tuma
her pictures were of a real girl who collaborated on the story and wants nothing to do with it.
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Originally Posted by nath
There's no chance Te'o wasn't in on it. He told all these huge, detailed stories about when they met, how often they talked, made **** up about her family, etc. If he wasn't in on it, he would have said "I met her last year through Twitter" and not "We met in 2009 after a game in Palo Alto!"
Also, the more I think about it, the less likely it is that Te'o and Tuiasosopo were covering for a homosexual relationship, because in that case it makes no sense to kill her.
Yeah this, except for the last part. He both provided all these pictures of her, and claimed he'd met her face to face. Both can't be true.
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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight
pretty sure you have to kill her so she doesnt have to have an excuse for never being at a game.
Yeah if someone is starting to close in on the story then you have to kill her off.