Manti Te'o's Dead girlfriend never existed?

Manti never really loved her anyway

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So he did it for publicity? That just seems implausible to me.

In five minutes, you could Google a dozen ridiculous hoaxes that people did for the publicity. Some people care a lot about publicity and don't have a real sense of what they can get away with. Remember Balloon Boy?
 
If you publicly kill her off, you get years of breathing space while you "grieve."

Still seems like attention-whoring to me. Too media-driven.

Maybe he did it for both reasons:
1. Started it to hide his sexuality
2. Heisman campaign started (early season)
3. Media started flocking to him due to his own and team's year.
4. Heisman campaign in full force, strongly competing with Johnny Football.
5. Campaign could use a spark, some extra publicity.
6. Media/Family start asking more and more about the girl.
7. Starts to panic. Claims she's gotten sick
8. Grandmother dies
9. Already grieving, sees way out and "kills off" his "gf".
10. Double the tragedy, double the media attention
11. Also stopped questions. Two birds, one stone.

:dunno: It's possible, I suppose. I do think it's quite obvious he was in on it, if nothing else.
 
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ESPN and Sports Illustrated both ran with this story without doing their homework. Hell it was a cover story for Sport Illustated.

There was a statement released tonight by the NOTRE DAME ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT and MANTI TE'O HIMSELF saying that the GF did not exist. ESPN did not say without a doubt that Te'o was complicit in the matter, they just reported the facts.
 

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