{"id":2815,"date":"2026-05-21T06:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/why-ku-coach-bill-self-felt-helpless-before-doctors-meeting-that-led-to-return\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:01:45","slug":"why-ku-coach-bill-self-felt-helpless-before-doctors-meeting-that-led-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/why-ku-coach-bill-self-felt-helpless-before-doctors-meeting-that-led-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Why KU coach Bill Self felt \u2018helpless\u2019 before doctor\u2019s meeting that led to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!--[--><!-- AiSummaryComponent.html --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><svg><title>Key Takeaways<\/title><defs><lineargradient><\/lineargradient><\/defs><\/svg><\/p>\n<div>Key Takeaways<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read our AI Policy.<\/p>\n<ul><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>Self said March 22 marked the crossroads after KU&#8217;s 67-65 loss to St. John&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>A Dallas specialist said coaching stress wasn&#8217;t putting him further in jeopardy.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>Medication changes plus diet and exercise revived Self\u2019s health and coaching plans.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><span>LAWRENCE<\/span><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>If Bill Self had it to do over again, he wouldn\u2019t have been quite as candid about the personal crossroads he was staring at starting March 22, after his Kansas Jayhawks lost 67-65 to St. John\u2019s in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/rio-americano-wins-1st-cif-baseball-title-in-30-years-with-stellar-pitching-defense\/\">Rio Americano wins 1st CIF baseball title in 30 years with stellar pitching, defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>But rather than evade or dismiss post-game questions about his coaching future in the context of his health gone volatile the last few years, Self treated them as entirely valid.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In the process of explaining that he still loved coaching but wanted to feel well enough to do it properly, murmurs that he may consider retiring erupted into a national storyline.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>As he sat in his office for an interview with The Star on Tuesday, Self figured he could have finessed the matter better and lamented that he\u2019d said too much.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich obviously got more traction probably than what I had hoped it would have,\u201d he said, smiling and adding, \u201cWhen you start it and you say a little bit, you can\u2019t put the paste back in the tube.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Then again, he was facing a true quandary after a series of heart-related issues \u2014 among other ailments over the last few years \u2014 that he increasingly felt made for no way to live.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>So the fact he was facing a dilemma, he said, \u201cwas 100% accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t an option, he said, to reflexively keep going and then figure out later whether he should coach into the season.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Delaying it, he said, \u201ccrushes next year\u2019s opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Changing his mind later, he said, would feel like \u201cI\u2019ve been dishonest to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>So he had to decide ASAP to be either all-in or all-out.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>And retirement initially was the expectation for the 63-year-old Self, who led KU to national titles in 2008 and 2022 and was inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>From late in the regular season through that season-ending game against St. John\u2019s and into the first few days of Self\u2019s retreat to determine his future, that\u2019s how he was mentally girding himself.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I was most likely out after our last road trip to Arizona,\u201d he said, \u201cjust because I felt so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Beyond acknowledging his depleted energy during the Big 12 Tournament, Self declined to elaborate on specifics of that bad feeling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, though, that and much more was on the mind of Self and his family when he went to Dallas in late March to get what he called an \u201cextra opinion\u201d \u2014 on how to mitigate his issues and what risks coaching itself was posing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gridlocked as he might have been overall, Self wasn\u2019t working through lists of pros and cons.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Quite the opposite, actually.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Entering that appointment with a specialist his doctors had recommended, Self said he felt \u201chelpless\u201d because he wasn\u2019t controlling the narrative or the decision. And going into it Self figured the doctor would say, \u201cBill, it\u2019s time\u201d \u2026 and that would be that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>But the doctor didn\u2019t say that at all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>And he did speak to what Self considered the most vital point of all: that the stress of the job was not putting him further in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/sacramento-kings-second-round-draft-pick-makes-nba-all-rookie-team-heres-why\/\">Sacramento Kings\u2019 second-round draft pick makes NBA All-Rookie Team. Here\u2019s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed to hear that,\u201d Self said. \u201cI needed to hear that my profession wasn\u2019t the reason why I felt bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he heard that neither coaching nor lying on a beach was going to minimize or enhance what he called \u201cthe situation that I had with my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Between that assurance, some tweaking of medications and yet more attention to diet and exercise, Self left the appointment embracing what he said he\u2019d been told by the doctor he declined to name:<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018There\u2019s no reason why you can\u2019t feel well and do this as well as, as efficiently as, you ever have \u2026\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cSo I probably went from thinking I was done to feeling really good and excited within (that) three-hour meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>As for navigating that with his wife, Cindy, and children Tyler and Lauren, Self said he \u201cknew what their preferred stance\u201d was entering that doctor\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that was only because they knew I didn\u2019t feel well,\u201d he said, adding that they wanted him to do what makes him happy as long as he was feeling right and not adding risk.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Starting with that boost of affirmation and adrenaline and changes to his medicines, Self said he started feeling fresh energy pumping into him immediately.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Turned out there also was a considerable therapeutic benefit to the self-imposed brisk timeframe: Weeks later, Kansas signed Tyran Stokes, the nation\u2019s top high school recruit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Landing him exhilarated Self, who in the process of rounding out KU\u2019s incoming class through the transfer portal said, \u201cI don\u2019t know that we as a staff ever worked harder\u201d than during that three-or four-week period.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Self\u2019s energy now is such that he played 36 holes of golf the other day, and he\u2019s continued to lose weight \u2014 down some 50 pounds in the last year.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>He feels \u201cgreat from a psychological standpoint\u201d as he\u2019s come to realize how treatable his heart issues are with improvements to the mesh of medicines.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Diet and exercise still will be vital for him. And while he says \u201cnot great at\u201d that sort of stuff, he also says \u201cI\u2019m a different guy from that standpoint than I was a couple years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>But still the same guy who loves to coach \u2026 when he feels right.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Meaning he\u2019s gone from being on the verge of retiring to figuring this isn\u2019t necessarily his last season.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not time for me; I don\u2019t think it is,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m definitely thinking that this is not a one-year deal at all. If the doctors tell me I\u2019m good, there\u2019s nothing I\u2019d rather do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>This story was originally published <span>May 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM<!-- --><\/span><span> with the headline  &#8220;Why KU coach Bill Self felt \u2018helpless\u2019 before doctor\u2019s meeting that led to return.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/13-year-old-girl-from-west-sacramento-reported-missing-authorities-say\/\">13-year-old girl from West Sacramento reported missing, authorities say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following health treatment and lifestyle changes, Bill Self reports renewed energy, weight loss and optimism about coaching the Kansas Jayhawks beyond this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-vahe-gregorian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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