It has been 24 hours since the Kentucky basketball chose a new leader and the blue smoke has not yet cleared. The reason for this? Mitch Barnhart’s decision to hire former Wildcat player, Mark Pope, ignited a Big Blue Nation-sized fire, and it has taken all day to get control of it. Just when fans thought there would be a lull in the search process after Scott Drew and Danny Hurley shunned the ‘Cats in favor of their current situations, the bomb dropped late Thursday night that Mark Pope would become the new head coach of Kentucky basketball. Like most explosions, the announcement spawned wide…