BYU's Mark Pope is reportedly on the verge of landing one of the most high-profile jobs in all of college sports.
According to ESPN's Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello, Kentucky is finalizing a five-year deal to hire Pope as the school's next men's basketball coach.
Matt Norlander of CBS Sports previously reported the Wildcats were "set to hire" Pope.
The Kentucky job was open because John Calipari shockingly left to take over as the head coach of Arkansas in early April. It was the biggest domino in a chain of events that saw Andy Enfield leave USC for SMU, Eric Musselman leave Arkansas for USC and Calipari take over the Razorbacks opening.