He will never sniff the KU job
He sure won't, he had a much better chance of it if Self went back to Oklahoma State while Turgeon was still at Wichita State. He hasn't been nearly successful enough at Maryland to be a viable candidate at OU, he certainly wouldn't be at KU.
I think that list is super lazy, it's just people with either OU or Big 12 ties. It's like the author got that list straight from soonerfans. I do think Mills and McCasland will be candidates but they aren't at the top of the list. Mills has never finished better fourth in the Summit League and McCasland only one the Sun Belt once and that was last year, they slid back this year.
Those hires would be just worse than Otzelberger.