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Why Won't Self Nix OSU Offer?

Jayhawks coach is happy where he is... right?

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 9, 2008 1:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self has a lot of leverage now that he's taken his team to the national championship, but he's being uncharacteristically vague in answering rumors of an obscenely generous job offer from his alma mater Oklahoma State. Joe Posnanski speculates in the... Read full story »

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