On Thursday evening, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Kentucky is nearing a deal to make BYU’s Mark Pope the Wildcats’ head coach next season. A decision that Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones claims was solely made by Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart. “Every single person I talked to was shocked,” Jones said. “This was clearly a decision made by Mitch. So, it will succeed or fail with Mitch because I think he made this [decision] on his own. There were a lot of people who I think had conversations as a part of this with Barnhart, but everyone taken aback and surprised, including me.”…