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Self should ignore the dollars and stay at Kansas

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Monday, April 7, 2008

SAN ANTONIO -- Don't do it, Bill Self. Don't take billionaire T. Boone Pickens' money, even if it means you could walk from Lawrence, Kan., to Stillwater, Okla., on a road paved with his cash. Don't become Dollar Bill, the guy who gets money whipped into leaving hoops heaven for what has become a hoops graveyard. Don't leave Kansas for Oklahoma State. Not now. Not ever. And especially not after you just won one of the greatest Final Four championship games of all time. Self was born and ...

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