There's still many people whom believe Te'o was complicit in the entire thing, if not behind it.
Those people then wonder, "Why would someone like Te'o fake having a girlfriend?"
Then those people say things like, "he did it for publicity" or "he wanted to increase his chances for the Heisman" or "I bet he's gay and he is using the long-distance relationship as a cover."
Before the entire story came out, at least twenty people said some version of the last quote to me.
