Mark Pope spent over two decades away from the Kentucky Men’s Basketball program and was given a hero’s welcome upon his return in April. The majority of undergrad students at UK weren’t even born when he was hanging banners in Lexington, yet more than 20,000 members of Big Blue Nation were on hand to welcome him home when he was introduced as the university’s next basketball coach. “It’s really touching and it’s everything,” Pope said during an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show during the SEC Spring Meetings. “It’s everything from like, you know, I got a letter recently where there was a f…