The demands of the job don't really stop, and the more accurate way to say it is that the demands of the job don't really stop growing. Bill Self is nobody's sympathetic figure here. He works on a $50 million contract and is generally treated like a king.
It is a strange existence, where conference championships are merely an ante to the game and anything less than a Final Four is an objective disappointment, but here we are anyway. Self can make a Final Four, or he can feel like a failure. There is no in between.
The basketball coach at Kansas can't be an A-minus student.