Come on dude, I'm sure Bill loves his son, but if this is something he truly wants, then he's not basing his decision on his walk on son, who wouldn't sniff the team if it wasn't for him.
I don't think players can have two red shirt years but another year off would be very much like Tyler's sophomore year when he played a total of 12 minutes and scored 2 points.
I don't know why any successful college coach would take an NBA coaching job. I haven't followed the NBA much since Fred retired but most years one or two Eastern Conference teams make the play-offs with a slightly losing record. Most coaches don't like to lose but even the best of them do often times due to injuries.
Even if the Thunder doubled Self's salary he would be underpaid because if his team advanced far into the play-offs he could be coaching more than three times as many games as are played by even the NCAA championship team.
Not many coaches have security as teams recycle them with no remorse. Just two or three years ago George Karl was the NBA coach of the year and soon after the Nuggets fired him. Since April 21 of last year 43.34% of NBA have new coaches. 7 were fired, 2 contracts were not renewed, 1 was demoted, 1 resigned, 1 was let out of his contract on request in exchange for the Bucks to pay two future 2nd round draft picks and 1 resigned.
It would seem Self has had his son for over 18 years and if he truly was this wizard of a coach he could have developed his son into enough of a player to get more than 12 minutes playing time on the season.
I wonder how Self would like coaching 4 games in 5 nights as that happens in the NBA as teams swing from coast to coast.
