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National title and a healthy raise will keep Self in Lawrence
The Bill Self Watch continues, with candlelight vigils headquartered in Stillwater, and while I still say it's a longshot for Self to hop on Pistol Pete's buckboard, don't rule it out. Like Self's lawyer said the other day, never say never.
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Kansas' NCAA championship, earned on a wild and memorable Monday night in San Antone, makes it more likely that Self will listen to Mike Holder's siren song about home and family. More likely that Self will wonder just how much cash is in Boone Pickens' satchels.
Here's why. KU's comeback on the mighty Memphises crossed off one big item from Self's bucket list. He's won an NCAA championship. Call him a Self made man.
Of course, that's incentive to stay, too. One of the bounties of a national title is strolling the campus which houses the trophy. Self is the Kansas king.
What Dick Harp with Wilt Chamberlain, Ted Owens with JoJo White and Roy Williams with Paul Pierce failed to do, Self did, with a wonderful throwback team comprised of several ballplayers who could have made all-conference, though none of them actually did.
Self now is legend in Kansas, ringmaster of one of the great moments in the history of one of America's great sporting traditions.
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