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Cowboys will pursue Kansas Self with $4M salary, $6M bonus

According to numerous media reports, Oklahoma State is prepared to offer Kansas coach Bill Self, win or lose tonight, a salary of $4 million a year, plus a $6 million signing bonus. That would not only nearly triple the $1.375 million he makes at Kansas but would fly past the $3.5 million paid the current highest-paid coach, Florida's Billy Donovan.

The impetus behind it is T. Boone Pickens, Oklahoma State's $3 billion "booster." Pickens wants an Oklahoma State man to coach Oklahoma State. Self played at Oklahoma State from 1982-85, assisted Leonard Hamilton and Eddie Sutton at OSU for seven years and was raised in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond. His father, Bill Sr., was director of Oklahoma's state high school activities association.

When Sean Sutton's resignation surfaced, Self tried hard to curb the rumors, saying: "If they were to ask me what they should do, I would suggest they go a different direction."

But his attorney, Stuart Campbell, told the Tulsa World on Friday, "I am completely in wait-and-see mode. I never say never. They would have to be eye-popping numbers."

Source: Denver Post