We're all breathing a little easier, Leon. Glad you're home and on the mend.
Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: A. Leon Polhill To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:19 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: F$U penalties and their consequences Thanks, Randy. The surgery was a total success; Shands at UF surgeons successfully cut my pancreas in half, removing a slice containing the cyst. They also removed my gall bladder, so I benefited from a two-for. I was then reassembled with a section of small intestine positioned between the two halves to drain both of them. The pathology report found no cancer in the cyst, surrounding pancreatic tissue or gall bladder. Pathology did reveal the cyst to be of a type that would almost certainly have turned cancerous later if not removed. So it was the best of all possible outcomes. I began eating a liquid diet Saturday, 3/7 and a regular diet Sunday, 3/8, although I still have a small appetite. My taste buds have returned to normal. I was released from the hospital Monday, 3/9 to return home. During this past week I have focused on managing pain during the recovery process. This gets easier every day. I have had a low-grade fever (99 - 101 degrees) every day since surgery, which I control with Tylenol. I am able to walk out to get the mail and newspaper from the boxes across the street. I don't drive yet and wouldn't want to place a steering wheel in front of my abdomen until more healing has occurred, but I have no problem riding as a passenger. I have an incision running from just below my breastbone to 4 inches below my belly-button. It 's in the shape of a long, lazy 'S'. It is amazing how fast the body heals itself. When I came out of surgery the nerves in the abdomen were so sensitive that a breath of air blowing across would send me into stomach sheet-muscle spasms. You can't imagine how that felt. The pains coming through this kind of surgery has reset my definition of 'on a scale of 1 to 10, how painful is it?' I'm planning to attend the UF-FSU baseball game at the MAC 3/17 at 6:30 PM. I renewed email yesterday and am enjoying reading the American Lion: history of Andrew Jackson in the White House. Being a native of the state where Andrew Jackson was Territorial Governor, Jacksonville and a graduate of Andrew Jackson Senior High School, it seemed to be obligatory. This has been very trying and tiring for Paula. She stayed with me the whole time, sleeping in chairs next to my bed. She has taken this past week off for much needed rest and to care for me during this first week. She is planning to return to work next week---at least, part-time. Thanks for all your prayers and expressions of support. It has certainly been felt and appreciated. A. Leon Polhill FlaNative1845 330 NW 45th Street Gainesville, FL 32607 (352) 367-4642 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gatornet Admin Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: F$U penalties and their consequences Welcome back, Leon. When you feel like it, we'd like an update on your condition. Thanks! Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: A. Leon Polhill To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:07 PM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: F$U penalties and their consequences Does this mean that NCAA sanctions are imminent, Jay? p.s. It's good to be back. A. Leon Polhill FlaNative1845 330 NW 45th Street Gainesville, FL 32607 (352) 367-4642 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Belloit Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] F$U penalties and their consequences I have had some time to look at the F$U penalties and I would like to offer the following two points: First, it is possible that the number of vacated wins will not be as large as people might think. The number of wins vacated is of course the number of wins where F$U had ineligible players playing-not the number of wins where the cheating students were involved as reported by the Associated Press. However, the way F$U handled the cheating, they made it fairly easy for a player to avoid the loss of eligibility. As I posted previously, there are two issues that define a student's eligibility. First their overall academic grade average (QPA). The student must maintain a minimum average. Normally, at almost all universities, a student who is caught committing academic fraud is given a failing grade for the course. That failing grade would significantly lower the student's QPA. In this case, however, F$U simply disenrolled the students from the course. Other than the loss of credits, this had no impact on their QPA. The only exception to this was a case where the student made an A or B in the Art class that was needed to raise their QPA to the required minimum level. By "vacating" the course, the student lost the benefit of the higher grade. The second issue is the requirement that the students must complete a minimum number of credit hours during the academic year. Students with insufficient hours can sometimes take enough credits during the following term or during the summer to meet their minimum requirement. The difficulty for the NCAA in this case is to determine if the students first had the academic average to remain eligible after the course was "vacated" or disenrolled and second had enough hours to remain eligible during the preceding academic year. (This is a little more complicated since the university must determine how many hours the student completed before the close of the previous academic year since football is a fall sport.) Second, the cheating on the Art courses will probably have a significant longer term consequence in that it will likely impact the APR for the school. F$U will likely lose more scholarships that the original penalties due to the APR. The APR calculation will likely drop significantly because of the students who took the Music class will have their previously reported credits reduced by that one class. While we do not and cannot get access to the actual student records, it is very likely that several of the students who got caught cheating will now not have completed the required hours to achieve the NCAA minimum required score on the Academic Progress Rating (APR). Since this is a five-year rolling average, the two years of the problem course is likely to have a significant impact. (To illustrate the power of the APR, Temple University lost nine scholarships because of their low APR. For more information try here: http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=329 While I intended this treatise to clear up some of the confusion about the sanctions, I probably have contributed to it. 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