Kentucky
Mark Stoops expects turnover and surprises during “tumultuous week”
In some ways, the writing has been on the wall for this season for a while. Even though it was only made official with last week’s loss to Texas, it’s been clear for weeks the Cats weren’t going to a bowl. The season has been on a steady decline for over a month, with today’s humiliating 41-14 loss to Louisville serving as the icing on a crap cake.
After today’s loss, Stoops admitted he’s been thinking about how to fix the issues that plagued Kentucky this season for quite some time. The rebuild starts tomorrow with an all-staff meeting ahead of what is known as the wildest week in college football. The Early Signing Period starts on Wednesday and even though the transfer portal doesn’t open until December 9, Stoops said there will be some hard conversations in the coming days as players decide their futures and the staff tries to make room for a rebuild.
“Tumultuous week; that’s an understatement,” Stoops said during his postgame conversation with Tom Leach. “There’s going to be a lot of turnover and there needs to be. And nobody needs to panic because we, I, have to create room. I have to build a roster that can compete in this monster league. And we clearly didn’t meet it this year but it’s not like we’re going to be so far away.”
Stoops compared Kentucky’s current situation to when he took over for Joker Phillips back in 2013. Thanks to the transfer portal and NIL, a roster rebuild can happen much more quickly, especially with the right resources, which he says he believes he has. Stoops wants to build around Kentucky’s young playmakers — Cutter Boley first and foremost — and restock the rest of the roster through the portal.
Player meetings will take place in the next few days; while Stoops and his staff will have a plan of who they want to keep and who will need to go, he knows they’ll likely get some bad news too.
“There are going to be players that we ask to go somewhere else, to go play somewhere else, and there are going to be guys that we ask to come back. There’s going to be incoming freshmen, there’s going to be incoming portal [players], and there’s probably going to be some surprises. Let’s be honest. There’s going to be a surprise and again, we won’t flinch. It’s not like we’re going to like it or anything. If you lose somebody you don’t want to but it’s not the end all be all. There are ways to replace anybody.”
Stoops joked that fans probably want to replace him but he’s not going anywhere. After all, as he said earlier in his conversation with Leach, he’s the winningest coach in Kentucky football history. He’s confident he can turn things around, even as the landscape of the sport continues to shift by the second.
“It’s not like I have no idea what I’ve done. I’ve done things at this school that nobody else has. It’s not like I totally forgot, but I have to do better. I also accept it so I don’t, want anybody to attack me for saying that. I’m admitting and saying I need to do a better job and we will.”
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Kentucky
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Recent heavy rainfall has left soil across the state completely soaked, contributing to localized flooding in some areas.
When rain falls, some water soaks into the ground through a process called percolation.
Soil can only hold a limited amount of water. Once the small air spaces within the soil fill with water, the ground becomes saturated and additional rainfall has nowhere to go.
Soil type plays a role in how quickly water drains.
Much of Kentucky has clay-heavy soil, which is made up of very small, flat particles packed tightly together.
That composition makes it harder for water to move through. In clay soil, water may drain at a rate of only 0.02 to 0.17 inches per hour.
When rainfall comes down faster than the ground can absorb it and water cannot drain into a stream or storm drain quickly enough, it begins to build up.
That buildup is what leads to localized flooding.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – Cyclosporiasis is a microscopic parasite that can contaminate food and water — is making people sick across several states, including Kentucky.
Dr. Patricia Tellez-Watson said, the illness is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis and spreads when someone ingests contaminated food or water. “It is an intestinal infection caused by this water-borne, food-borne microscopic parasite,” she said.
Symptoms can include diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
Tellez-Watson said, cases are often sporadic, but outbreaks can happen — especially during hot, wet months, when the parasite can survive in the environment long enough to become infectious.
Health experts recommend taking extra precautions with food and water. Washing hands and thoroughly rinsing produce before eating or cooking can reduce risk.
Watson also urged people to be cautious with fresh produce, particularly pre-packaged items, and to consider using bottled water.
Officials have confirmed cases in Bowling Green, though it’s unclear how many.
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