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To a certain extent, the numbers would still suffer the same problems. Those students would still likely be concentrated in a small number of public schools in the East End and Downtown and given how overwhelmingly white those populations are, the state's star-reduction system for performance gaps among certain groups could probably penalize certain schools even more.

I'd be interested to track this over time. The article states that the number of JCPS schools receiving a "CSI" designation (which seems to be a low-performance designation but that the WDRB article fails to define) jumped from 21 last year to 35 this year while nine schools simultaneously left that designation following some improvements. That seems like a statistical aberration, but there's no way to know on just two years of sample data. JCPS has unique problems in Kentucky. If anyone comes up with a reasonable solution, they ought to get the Nobel prize.

Do you have a link to the report? Also, is "average" just a term they use for a state standard or is there actually an average score they're basing this on? If it's the latter, then the people responsible for the report should be strung up by their own bachelors degrees because that's just bad stats work.

Yep. About one-sixth of all students in Kentucky. And that's with a large number of students in private schools.

It's a system of haves and have-nots. The best public schools in the state are in JCPS. Some of the worst-performing public schools in the state are also in JCPS. Whatever the fix is, it won't be an easy one and no one will be happy about the plan.

The nice thing about the AAC (or formerly the Big East) if you're a rebuilding program is that everything is cyclical, something you don't get in the Power Five. Coach shows up, coach builds program, coach leaves. Anybody can win, but nobody wins for long. Apart from WVU, in those years between the 2005 and 2013 alignments, teams were all over the place. The league still has some of that in it. Not a particularly compelling hypothetical since Rutgers isn't going anywhere, but it's a more interesting case than Rutgers finding 6 wins with a Big Ten schedule anytime soon.

The best years they ever had were in competition with the teams that now make up the backbone of the AAC. I think they could gradually build back to at least mediocrity against that schedule... provided they got the right coach and a helpful degree of leadership at the university. Stick them in UConn's spot in the East over the next five to ten years and it might at least be interesting.

That schedule is too monstrous on an annual basis to expect bowl eligibility. The athletic department should be looking for an experienced coach who can get the most of players and use the up and down nature of their recruiting cycles to expect to sneak a few past the low end of their division then get lucky in the rotations with the other division to get to 6-6 every other year or every third year. Any more than that is outside the nature of where they are right now. That nine-game league schedule isn't helping them either.

Yeah this is a "the AFC North champion could head into the playoffs with a 9-7 record" kind of season.

Baltimore's miserable tackling helped this one considerably in the portion of the game I saw. After three weeks of olympian performances, Lamar Jackson was human today. Bad combination.

What a mess Rutgers is. I'm genuinely curious as to whether there is anyone out there that is both 1) capable of turning that ship around and 2) actually willing to walk into that disaster.

With the passage of time, the UofL and UNC cases appear substantially different to me and I understand why each school took the path it did. Now, I think UofL did a silly thing giving away a postseason appearance it didn't have to, but I get it. The NCAA had UofL square in the crosshairs on the Katina Powell stuff and no amount of obstruction was going to save it. Third party witnesses, transaction records, and a salacious public story made the whole thing pretty easy. The UNC case was trickier and they knew it. There was no way for the NCAA to make the case without serious help from inside the university and they weren't going to get it. I'm not trying to rehash either of those cases, but I just don't think the UNC case is illustrative of how the NCAA dealt with UofL on the Powell matter. To say nothing of how it STILL MAY YET deal with UofL on the Adidas scandal. The KU case is similar to UofL for me... they don't need anyone inside the university to come forward and start spilling the beans on the athletic department. They've got everything they need. I think KU is losing their 2018 Final Four appearance and who knows what else.

I agree. With a bye week coming up, he’ll almost certainly start against BC two weeks from now.

Louisville has 3 quarterbacks... and yet no quarterbacks. This is... less than ideal. Wouldve been a fun day if the Cards hadn’t spotted them 21 points. Cunningham was AWFUL in the first half. So it goes. Two weeks to get ready for BC and hopefully get a conference win for the first time since 2017.

Whole deal is tarnished forever. NO. GOOD. RANDY.

If a settlement was reached in the Pitino matter, then I assume any counterclaims were part of that resolution. And yeah, I'm not worried about the players' suit from a UofL perspective. I hate that Luke Hancock's Final Four MOP is off the books too, but that's not really where I'm concerned as an alumnus and supporter of UofL.

This is a big one. Louisville is either going to steal a win here and light a fire that maybe... just maybe... six wins and bowl eligibility is possible. ...or... We find out just how tough the season is going to be. Louisville had FSU on the ropes last season but both teams look to be moderately improved from the miserable wrecks of 2018. FSU's offense is at least. Louisville looked much better in its first three games than last year but there were some definite holes on both sides of the ball and lack of depth will be a MAJOR issue for the Cards as we press deep into competitive games.

Well that's another one down. Now we've just got the Foundation's suit against former board members and the NCAA's Adidas investigation and we'll be on the verge of having the terrible last chapters of the Ramsey/Jurich years behind us.

What I don't like: - The ACC scheduling conference games to start the season in November and again in early December is awful. It's dumb ploy to try and get ACC Network some meaningful midweek content early on in its existence but whatever. The Pitt game sandwiched between Michigan and Texas Tech is somehow twice as dumb as having to get up to conference speed on opening night at Miami. What I do like: - At first glance, I loved the idea of scheduling UVA/Louisville and UNC/Duke on the same two days in January and February. Potential for the league to completely dominate the national basketball conversation that day if everything shakes out like it's supposed to. But then, this is ESPN we're talking about... UNC and Duke were already going to dominate the national basketball conversation on whatever day they played. We'll see how it goes. - Why do I feel like we play down at Florida State every year? Maybe that's just me? - Another loaded December is a lot of fun. We didn't get many of those for a while there, but Michigan, Texas Tech, and UK will make for quite a run toward the meat of ACC play.

Oct. 29 - BELLARMINE (Exhibition) Nov. 5 - at Miami, Fla. (ACC game)// ACC Network Nov. 10 - YOUNGSTOWN STATE Nov. 13 - INDIANA STATE Nov. 17 - NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL Nov. 20 - USC UPSTATE Nov. 24 - AKRON Nov. 29 - vs. Western Kentucky in Nashville Dec. 3 - MICHIGAN// ESPN or ESPN2 Dec. 6 - PITTSBURGH// ACC Network Dec. 10 - vs. Texas Tech in New York// ESPN or ESPN2 Dec. 14 - EASTERN KENTUCKY Dec. 18 - MIAMI (OHIO) Dec. 28 - at Kentucky// CBS Jan. 4 - FLORIDA STATE// ESPN Networks Jan. 7 - MIAMI (FLA)// ESPN Networks Jan. 11 - at Notre Dame// ESPN Jan. 14 - at Pittsburgh// ESPN Networks Jan. 18 - at Duke// ESPN Jan. 22 - GEORGIA TECH Jan. 25 - CLEMSON Jan. 29 - at Boston College// ACC Network Feb. 1 - at NC State// ESPN Networks Feb. 5 - WAKE FOREST// ESPN Networks Feb. 8 - VIRGINIA// ESPN Networks Feb. 12 - at Georgia Tech// ACC Network Feb. 15 - at Clemson// ESPN Networks Feb. 19 - SYRACUSE// ESPN Feb. 22 - NORTH CAROLINA// ESPN Networks Feb. 24 - at Florida State// ESPN March 1 - VIRGINIA TECH// ACC Network March 7 - at Virginia// ESPN Networks

Weird game. Defense still has some holes they’re going to need to find a way to patch up before next week. Still, another solid win against a team the Cards struggled mightily against last season. I’ll take it. Any word on Malik yet? We didn’t hear about Pass’s “lower extremity issue” until Saturday morning so I can’t imagine we’re going to hear much about this one.

Classic, Romero-style slow zombies or fast zombies? If it's the former, I think I can smash one's head in with the massive printer by my desk. If it's the latter, I'm toast.

Learned to drive behind the wheel of my dad's Ford Crown Victoria. I'm pretty sure he was the only man under age 70 that wasn't a cop driving a Crown Vic.