<p>There’s really only two explanations. Either Te’o was in on it for publicity’s sake and to have a better shot at the heisman, or he’s homosexual and wanted to hide it from a particularly less than accepting Notre Dame football fanbase. His version of the story just doesn’t add up at all, and frankly I can’t believe that he or Notre Dame thought that was a good statement to release. He said he met the girl FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PERSON at the stanford game, shook hands and exchanged numbers. Then there are claims that they hung out in Hawaii and that they talked on the phone for hours every night. And really, this all went down post 2010. Skype the girl. Hit her up on facebook. There’s so many easy ways to make sure that someone is real. He clearly knew that she wasn’t real, the question is why did he do it? Right now those two theories are really the only ones that make sense.</p>