Mark Pope teases new special edition uniforms for Kentucky this season

Are new uniforms on the way for the Kentucky Wildcats? Mark Pope hinted at some special edition threads potentially set to debut this season.

The UK head coach was asked about any pregame superstitions he has ahead of tip-off, using that moment to slide in a nugget on a ‘little fashion show’ the team participated in on Monday.

“They have weaned me off of my superstitions, even to the point of — we had a little fashion show today of some prospective uniforms that we might break out this season,” Pope said during his call-in radio show. “(UK equipment manager) Mark Evans brought them in with a ton of sensitivity about, ‘Hey, I don’t want to jinx anything.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t believe in that, I’m not into any of that.’ So I don’t really have any game day superstitions.”

It comes just a couple of weeks after Pope was asked if he could bring back the denim uniforms his 1996 national championship team made famous three decades ago. His response at the time?

“Can I tell you this? I’m not really allowed to say this, so it’s just between the two of us: I’m working on it,” he said. “It’s amazing the red tape that we have to go through to make this happen, but we’re pretty passionate about trying to make that happen. We’ll see what we come up with. It’s definitely on my agenda of things to get accomplished.”

Pope said back in April that ‘we should put it in the hands of BBN’ when it comes to uniforms, saying he’d like to see fans vote on what the team wore at some point in the future.

“I would dig that. That would be awesome.”

Does that include denim?

“The denim, you know, I don’t know,” Pope continued. “I love the denim uniforms.”

We’re seeing a trend here, folks. Prepare accordingly.