Kansas Jayhawks’ Invoice Self turns into the best paid coach in faculty basketball with a 5-year $53 million deal. (KU Athletics)
Nov. 8 (UPI) — For Bill Self, there is not any place like house. The College of Kansas Jayhawks head basketball coach has signed a five-year, $53 million deal, making him the best paid coach in males’s faculty hoops.
“Invoice Self is undoubtedly essentially the most constant coach in faculty basketball, and a restructuring of his contract phrases have been lengthy overdue,” athletic director Travis Goff mentioned.
“In an ever-changing collegiate athletics atmosphere, our sturdy dedication to Coach Self positions KU basketball to keep up and improve its standing as essentially the most storied program within the nation.”
The contract comes on the heels of the Jayhawks 2022 NCAA match championship, but in addition within the nonetheless murky shadow of a 2017 FBI investigation into faculty basketball that implicated Kansas’ the lads’s basketball program in pay-for-play allegations involving potential recruits and the Adidas sports activities attire firm.
That probe got here to an finish final month with Kansas having obtained three years probation. However Self averted extra punishment and this system sidestepped a postseason ban. A decision panel downgraded violations into much less critical infractions.
The contract additionally granted Self immunity for any guidelines infractions he might have dedicated throughout earlier years. The deal features a clause that claims the varsity can not hearth Self for trigger “attributable to any present infractions matter that includes conduct on or previous to” the signing of the deal.
Self is in his 21st season with the Jayhawks, following within the profitable footsteps of prior Kansas Jayhawks teaching icon Roy Williams. Self has tallied a 581-132 file (.815 profitable proportion) and picked up eight Huge 12 match titles together with two nationwide championships. Previous to this deal, Self was reportedly paid about $6 million a yr, making solely lower than Kentucky head coach John Calipari who’s paid $8.5 million a yr.
Self signed a lifetime contract with KU in 2021, and the varsity mentioned the $53 million deal amended that settlement
“Over his 20 years at KU, our males’s basketball program has been a major supply of optimistic alumni engagement, sturdy college enrollment, and income that has helped fund all different Kansas Athletics applications and spend money on all 500 student-athletes yearly. With him and his employees on the helm of our basketball program, the way forward for Kansas Athletics has by no means been brighter,” Goff mentioned.
Self will most definitely attain 800 profession wins this season and has two nationwide championships and 20 league titles — together with 13 straight Huge 12 championships underneath his belt.
“I’m very appreciative to Chancellor [Douglas] Girod, Travis Goff and your entire KU management workforce for his or her continued perception and confidence in me and my employees to steer this storied program,” Self mentioned. “I do know the Chancellor and Travis are as excited as I’m about the way forward for Kansas Basketball. There has by no means been a greater time to be part of our athletic division and this program. My household and I are so proud to be at this college, and I’m wanting ahead to many extra seasons representing essentially the most passionate fan base within the nation.
There is not any place like Kansas,” Self mentioned.
Kansas entered this season because the No. 1 ranked workforce in each the AP Prime 25 and Coaches Ballot and began Monday night time with a heat up sport that resulted in a 99-56 rout of North Carolina Central.
