LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) – Mark Pope still has the same excitement today as he did when he was hired as coach at Kentucky last spring. “I’ve said this a lot of times, but the day that I start doing that is the day that I probably get fired because this job – there’s only one of them,” Pope said. “There’s only this job. There’s no comparison. There are other great programs – Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, UConn, and Michigan State. There are a lot of programs that are great programs that do incredible things that have won championships. There are lot of programs like that. There’s only one Kentucky There’s Kentucky and then here’s everybody else.”