What a shame. Seems like Ben Moffitt is just a dime-a-dozen college athlete that only serves to prove what most people already think – that college athletes more often than not get through the academic part of their “education” by taking the easy road. Stories of athletes being given easier classes, easier grading, and the ability to opt out of tests have long circulated. And now Moffitt’s wife is telling the world that her husband never wrote his own papers while in college and that she also took at least two online courses for him.

First, you have to look at the full story here. As recently as this past September, major newspapers were carrying feature stories on Ben Moffit, touting the 23-year-old University of South Florida senior (What’s up with that, by the way? Aren’t most people 21 or 22 when they graduate?) linebacker as a glowing family man who drove 110-mile round trip every day so that his wife and children could live in their hometown in Sumter County, FL. He described his wife as “… an awesome woman.” He said that he would not be able to do what he did were it not for her.

A couple of months later, this “family man” walked out on his wife, five-year-old son, and three-year-old daughter. Family man indeed. Shauna has said Ben visited their children twice a week for a while after he left the family. She went on to say that only happened for a month and she now has no idea where he is living. He changed his cell phone number and would only call her from a block line, but has since at least given her a number she can call. He sounds like a real coward.

Moffitt had a scholarship that helped him pay the mortgage on a brand new house, a wife who worked fulltime to help support the family, and now it seems that he had a whole lot of help in passing his classes. His wife, Shauna, claims she wrote most of his papers. Her twin sister also claims to have written papers for Moffitt and she falsified reports that she had done his teaching observation hours in her classroom.

One story says: “But what really impresses those who know Moffitt, who has a 2.5 grade point average, is how he balances football, classes and family.”

My comment” It took at least two other individuals just to help Moffit keep a C-Average! How is that impressive?

Everyone was taking care of Moffitt, but now he wants to run off and be a single man – right at the dawn of his NFL career. On November 11, he left his family. Funny, that. I am willing to bet cash he did not move his family back to Sumter County for their benefit. He moved them out of the way so he could cat around.

Local discussion forums are full of negative comments about Shawna Moffit, calling her an angry, bitter woman who is just out for her husband’s money. One commentator gloated, “He has moved on and she is not invited.”

Do you want to know what I see? I see a woman who gave a man two children, worked fulltime and supported her spouse to the point of helping him cheat in college, only to be cast aside at the very moment her husband is ready to enter the world of professional sports. I see a woman who feels used and taken advantage of. I see a woman who wants the world to know that Ben Moffitt is not the family-man hero he has been portrayed as in the media.

This is Florida, though. Ben Moffitt will be required to pay a hefty child support despite whether or not he obtains his massive contract before or after a divorce. Unfortunately, Shawna may have to fight hard for alimony. Even after giving her husband two children and years of her life, Florida sees any marriage that is less than seven years as a “short term marriage” and alimony is not usually considered. She reports that he has stopped using his scholarship money to pay the mortgage. They could very well lose their home, but I’m guessing he could care less.

The next question is, logically, in just how many ways is Ben Moffitt a cheat? I’m just sayin’.