sigh
u put upwards of 30 other coaches in the situation bill is in and they do as good or better. half the league doesn't give a crap about winning in basketball and with the unbalanced schedule ukans is a lock to finish in the top 2-3 every year and get a good seed out of it. you sprinkle in an ncaa that only cares about counting the dollars cbs sends their way which allows guys like self (and the school in general) to get away with whatever they want on the recruiting trail and you have one of the easiest situations to win in.
face it, self didn't do anything real special b4 ukans, and it took 5 yrs and 5 nba draft picks and a lot of cheating to finally get to the final 4 last season.
for self to prove anything to me he'll have to win w/o cheating and get to multiple final fours the next few yrs. (hell, roy went to more final 4s in his first 5 years and he started with far less in a much stronger league). doing great in the big 12 is completely meaningless, its a watered down league with little success nationally.