Kentucky is used to being extremely ranked, whether or not it involves basketball, quick horses, or high quality bourbon. None of that is new to anybody who understands the spirit and tradition of Kentucky. Nevertheless, some rankings both appear to be neglected or ignored.
Every year US Information ranks states on measures equivalent to healthcare, training, infrastructure, alternative, fiscal stability, crime and correction, pure setting, and financial system. Since 2017, excluding a rating from 2020, Kentucky has averaged 41 out of fifty. This can be a rating most Kentuckians both utterly can relate to or don’t perceive how.
Kentucky ranked poorly in both these classes as an entire or sub-categories, which I consider is “writing on the wall” per se to concentrate on within the years to return. I’ll start with healthcare; Kentucky is ranked forty fourth general, however our entry to healthcare is within the high 20 within the nation. Nevertheless, high quality and public well being are each forty sixth, making you surprise, is it time to reevaluate our medical high quality procedures as a state? Ought to non-public hospitals do the identical? The standard of anybody’s life begins with their well being.
Training is the inspiration of our future, which ought to be second on our precedence solely behind healthcare. Kentucky ranks thirty third in pre-k to twelfth grade and thirty eighth in greater training. In response to ZipRecruiter, the common entry-level instructor in Kentucky makes round $15.16 per hour or $31,541. Sofi has the common price to stay in Kentucky at $36,574 a yr; therefore this may be one of many causes our training ranges are so low. You should pay educators a habitable wage, or they may go elsewhere – and who can blame them?
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Although Kentucky is among the most inexpensive locations to stay within the nation, ninth general and third general within the means for individuals to have equal alternative in giving the chance for employment, Kentucky lacks in giving the chance to offer individuals the possibility to afford to stay on this nice state. At forty fifth for financial alternative, it is a key issue to poverty, lack of training, and healthcare. Individuals who have alternatives to have function and which means will all the time be higher educated and more healthy.
One other correlation of this lack of alternative is the monetary stability of the common Kentuckian. For brief-term and long-term, Kentucky ranks forty seventh and forty eighth, respectively. These rankings are immediately associated to employment which Kentucky ranks forty fifth as nicely, which entails job development, labor drive participation, and low employment charge. If somebody doesn’t have the chance to help themselves for any interval will finally discover different means, no matter which may be, to offer a greater high quality of life for themselves and their household.
Although Kentucky does have room to enhance, as all of us do in life, I don’t wish to focus simply on the negatives however on the positives as nicely. Kentucky’s infrastructure was ranked 18th general, with entry to the web being within the high 20 within the nation. With the current occasions of the Covid-19 pandemic, having a robust web availability was essential to protecting all our family members related in addition to protecting our college students and educators capable of proceed their research. Transportation was additionally ranked high 20 coming in at 14th. I consider it is a strong basis to create the employment and financial alternatives Kentuckians want to enhance our high quality of life.
The final class I’ll focus on is what I consider is one that doesn’t get stated or appreciated sufficient: the protection of all our residents. Our police and correctional officers all through the state have carried out an outstanding job, rating greater than every other class at thirteenth general in crime and corrections. Tensions nationally have been excessive between legislation enforcement and civilians, however what they do is hard and takes a particular particular person to do, so out of your common Kentuckian, I wish to thanks.
In closing, Kentucky has been my residence all my life, and all I might ever dream of is to see it additional succeed and enhance. There’ll all the time be enhancements, however I consider the state leaders have indications of the place their focus ought to be. This isn’t a celebration problem or financial problem however a individuals problem. Kentuckians deserve the very best alternative, and it begins with the inspiration of a very good high quality of life: healthcare, training, and alternative.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Mark Stoops owns a five-game winning streak in the Governor’s Cup series. The Wildcats have won three games in a row at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium and have not lost to Louisville at Kroger Field since 2017 when Bobby Petrino was holding the call sheet and and Lamar Jackson was playing quarterback. The Wildcats have also covered a lot of spreads in this series.
Stoops is 7-2-1 against-the-spread (ATS) in this series with with covers as a double-digit dog in 2014 and 2016. Kentucky has beaten Louisville outright as a dog three times since 2016 and has covered five straight in this series. Those are not the only trends going in Kentucky’s direction heading into this Week 14 contest.
Louisville is 0-4-1 ATS as a road favorite under Jeff Brohm with outright losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. Kentucky is 5-0-1 ATS as a dog in its last six outing including four games this season. Kentucky covered numbers as a double-digit dog against Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas this season.
The visitor is 11-3-1 ATS (5-10 outright) in the last 14 meetings of this series with 10 outright wins but Kentucky has won the last two meetings at Kroger Field covering each times as a three-point favorite. In 2019, Kentucky ran away for a 45-13 victory and cruised to a 26-13 victory in 2022.
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Kentucky has consistently overachieved pregame expectations in this series. The Wildcats are currently a 3.5-point dog with a total of 48.5. That’s a projected final score of 26-22.5. Will UK exceed expectations again against Louisville? A win would equal four outright upsets for the Big Blue in the last eight meetings of the series.
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