that's not according to the notre dame athletic director jack swartzer who had a press conference last night. te'o says he never met this woman face to face, that all their communications was online and by telephone. this is one of the sort of the questions that only te'o himself can answer and we are sort of waiting to hear. there are many things that notre dame officials are saying they can't answer or that they feel are manti te'o's story to tell, not their story to tell so they're deferring to him. when we're going to hear more from te'o we don't know, there was some suggestion from the notre dame athletic director last night that perhaps we could be hearing from te'o today, what form that would take, where that would happen, we don't know. these things are up in the air. but that's really what we're waiting for next is to hear his more details from him about this. >> it's just an odd story all around, trying to figure out the motivation behind this. but we'll all wait and see. nbc's john yang in south bend, alabama for us. >>> coming up, 50 shades goes to college, the book that so