Just b/c USF is choosing not seek approval from the press, and seemingly KnightLight, doesn't mean there is nothing going on in the background. Much like FSU did not reveal who was or wasn't being investigated, USF is under no obligation to provide the public with information about any ongoing investigation. In fact that would violate Federal Laws concerning student privacy.

BTW...I'm sure KnightLight will provide us with a link or even mail you color copies if you desire, there is new blog entry regarding this whole 'scandal' where Mrs. Moffitt reels in some of the accussations she made last week. She regrets going to the press, although its sort of odd that she would say this while giving a television interview.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I think all of this is the result of a very pissed off female at a man she used to be attracted to, but was rejected at some point. Women can be vindictive as hell.

vindictivness works both ways. It is not just a female thing either.

Even the CUSA posters are getting tired of UCF fans' obsession with USF and the constant posting of stories about this.

http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=273575

UCF has three posters KnightTime, KL and STK that have had a hard on since this story broke. But its the same circle jerk gang that has been wanting to bring down the program for kids getting a speeding ticket. It must suck that they have pray for another program to fall down so that they can hope to stay on the field with them.

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sit...id=7&fid=1

USF star’s story turns out to be tale of bull
By Ron Bellamy The Register-Guard

Published: January 10, 2008 09:06AM


It was one of the feel-good stories of the South Florida football season, how senior linebacker Ben Moffitt balanced the responsibilities of sport, school and family, commuting 110 miles each day between Tampa and rural Bushnell, because that was home for his wife and their two children, ages 5 and 3.

The Bulls promoted him for honors with the slogan “Linebacker. Leader. Husband. Father.”

We offered our own version of the story the day before the Oregon-USF matchup in the Sun Bowl, written by Register-Guard reporter Chris Hansen, based on past stories and Hansen’s interviews with Moffitt, USF coach Jim Leavitt and defensive coordinator Wally Burnham in El Paso.

“It’s a weird balance,” Moffitt told Hansen. “It can be hard, but it comes with the territory I guess, and it’s been working out.”

Well, there’s a postscript.

Last Thursday, Moffitt, 23, filed for divorce from his wife of five years, Shauna Moffitt, 26, who told The Tampa Tribune that he’d moved out Nov. 11. The next day, the Tribune published a story in which Shauna Moffitt alleged that she wrote nearly every paper for her husband during his five years at USF and completed two online courses for him.

She e-mailed the newspaper copies of six assignments she said she wrote for her husband between Jan. 17, 2007, and Oct. 10, 2007. She said she wrote all of the assignments on her computer at the Sumpter County appraiser’s office, where she is a data specialist. (Her boss is looking into that now.)

“We were a team,” Shauna said, as quoted by the Tribune. “I did the papers in order for Ben to play. I’d write his paper and he’d go clean the kitchen.”

Ben Moffitt termed the allegations “hearsay. That’s all I can say. It’s very unfortunate for my kids.”

A USF spokesman also used the word “hearsay,” saying that “it’s a domestic issue and there’s nothing at this point to consider.”

Not even to investigate whether the star linebacker participated in academic fraud?

Of course, the charges could turn out to be false, the product of an apparently acrimonious break-up that’s the sad story here.

But South Florida won’t know that until it conducts some sort of inquest; failure to do so, as the Tribune editorialized Wednesday, “shows an appalling disregard for academic integrity.”

Whether that’s the REST of the story, it’s the rest of the story to date. And probably more than you wanted to know.

And it demonstrates the peril about writing about the private lives of athletes and coaches. Because while people like stories about people — stories that go beyond stats and strategy, as it were — you generally only get part of the picture, the side that the subject wants you to see.

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sit...id=7&fid=1