[Farm93]

OK new theory:  Te'o heard the urban legend about getting all A's if your roommate dies.  Decided to make up this girlfriend and her death to preserve his eligibility.

That's almost funny.  And almost makes more sense than other theories.

Te'o claims to have talked with his "love" for hours every day.  Who pulls off a hoax like that?  How boring.  Every single day yapping to this clueless guy.  If the goal is to get something later, why talk for hours each day?  Wouldn't a couple of minutes do the trick?  And then why kill yourself before the investment will pay big dividends AFTER the NFL draft?

Also how is it possible that Skype, Google video chat or any number of technologies were not discussed?  Te'o is a college student.  His "girlfriend" was going to Stanford.  How would it be possible that his teammates would not tell him to get a Skype account or download Google Video Chat or whatever?  I have coworkers that need to Skype to their families every night on business trips.  And they are in their 40s & 50s!!  How could a young guy at an elite university (cough, cough, hack, hack) not get his girlfriend at the epicenter of so many internet technologies to get a webcam?  His internet relationship was stuck in the 80s, and he did not find that odd while dating a girl that should be living around the internet technologies of the 2020s?

Te'o asking the Stanford team about the girl seems like a horribly inefficient way to learn more about her.  Jump onto Facebook.  Ask someone to search a campus directory, or a yearbook or something.  Google her.  Look for her youtube account.  Almost anything would have been viable.

In the end, those pieces just don't fit.  The full story is likely just so pathetic that it will just drift away.  Either he is hiding something and it got out of control, or he is a very naive guy.  I guess he can be a naive technologically clueless guy, but I would not think that would be possible in 2012 at an elite USA university. 

I do see fantastically funny future ads for Skype, or Google Video Chat, or Facetime out of this. 

[Farm93]

OK new theory:  Te'o heard the urban legend about getting all A's if your roommate dies.  Decided to make up this girlfriend and her death to preserve his eligibility.

That's almost funny.  And almost makes more sense than other theories.

Te'o claims to have talked with his "love" for hours every day.  Who pulls off a hoax like that?  How boring.  Every single day yapping to this clueless guy.  If the goal is to get something later, why talk for hours each day?  Wouldn't a couple of minutes do the trick?  And then why kill yourself before the investment will pay big dividends AFTER the NFL draft?

Also how is it possible that Skype, Google video chat or any number of technologies were not discussed?  Te'o is a college student.  His "girlfriend" was going to Stanford.  How would it be possible that his teammates would not tell him to get a Skype account or download Google Video Chat or whatever?  I have coworkers that need to Skype to their families every night on business trips.  And they are in their 40s & 50s!!  How could a young guy at an elite university (cough, cough, hack, hack) not get his girlfriend at the epicenter of so many internet technologies to get a webcam?  His internet relationship was stuck in the 80s, and he did not find that odd while dating a girl that should be living around the internet technologies of the 2020s?

Te'o asking the Stanford team about the girl seems like a horribly inefficient way to learn more about her.  Jump onto Facebook.  Ask someone to search a campus directory, or a yearbook or something.  Google her.  Look for her youtube account.  Almost anything would have been viable.

In the end, those pieces just don't fit.  The full story is likely just so pathetic that it will just drift away.  Either he is hiding something and it got out of control, or he is a very naive guy.  I guess he can be a naive technologically clueless guy, but I would not think that would be possible in 2012 at an elite USA university. 

I do see fantastically funny future ads for Skype, or Google Video Chat, or Facetime out of this.