Notre Dame's position on this is that a group of people spent the last three or four years creating a fake online/phone identity to scam a football player no one outside of South Bend had heard about until last fall. Sounds legit.
Yep. The press conference from the very beginning was a giant charade of hoaxes and victims. I'm now firmly in the camp that this d00d knew, at least for a long time.
Also...LOL @ the whole "Totally, we learned about this on December 26th and we were gonna come out with it and tell the media all about it, but totally we just wanted to let the private investigators run through everything first. Oh and we suspect these guys were just trying to extort him."
WUT.