Love Thy Self First
And Bill Self has done that. He has a new contract (details of which have not been released) and the coach will be calling Kansas home for the next eight years. That seems about right.
“I see the finish line being here,” he said. “I don’t want to say positively. You never know. Things do change. You may have a new administration, a lot of different things. I will say I am excited coaching at a place as I have been my entire coaching career.”
He said he’ll be as motivated as ever trying to keep KU hoops on top.
“How humbling it is. We say Phog Allen won three (national titles), technically won one,” he said of one NCAA title and two Helms Foundation poll crowns. “Coach (Larry) Brown won one. Now we’ve won one. How cool would it be to win two? To me that is great motivation. We’ll work hard to try to get it accomplished.”
Having Self remain at Kansas puts the program at the very top with everyone else in college ball. Recruiting will probably remain very, very high caliber and we’ll all be at least debating upon whether or not to put this team into the Final Four almost every year. That alone is a victory for the program.
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 @ 9:48 am 
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April 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
do u really think Bill Self is that great of a coach…i mean you look at his career and I feel anyone else could produce the results he has….i look at calipari and i feel he has a proven track record as a great coach. My verdict is still out on self
April 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I don’t see how it can be … the guy won a national title on his first trip to the Final Four. He was very successful with Illinois and Tulsa. Calipari may be jinxed to never win one; he had that game and it slipped through his tight grip.
Self is forever safe.