Bill Self not crying wolf this time with KU?

Bill Self has played this card before. 

The head coach has called out his Kansas Jayhawks off-and-on over the years, saying this team didn't play well, or that team was soft, or just "wasn't very good." He would say these things, and we would halfheartedly listen, knowing the Jayhawks were only the next opponent away from proving there really wasn't anything to worry about. 

Brandon Rush's supposed shooting woes would wane. Sherron Collins would direct traffic and take over a game in crunch time. Tyrel Reed and Brady Morningstar would make slight corrections needed to again lock down the defensive perimeter. The Morris twins would find a way to provide a spark to a fire that never really went out to begin with. A program good enough to turnover multiple classes and still win seven conference championships doesn't have a fire problem.

K-State's Martin: "I don't take guys out because they make mistakes"

He turned the ball over, the horn blared and Kansas State freshman guard Angel Rodriguez put his head down. Without looking, he started to jog, slowly, toward the K-State bench, where he assumed some sort of verbal correction was imminent.

As freshmen usually are in their first semester, he was in the wrong.  It wasn't, however, what Rodriguez thought.

Head coach Frank Martin sent in a substitution for someone else, and the game continued. Kansas State went on to defeat Alabama 71-58. Rodriguez turned in his best all-around performance of the year, with a career high in points (13) and assists (7) in 26 key minutes as other guards battled foul problems and overall off nights. 

Martin, afterward, explained, in somewhat cryptic fashion, why his freshman, who was on the receiving end of a much-discussed, in-game tongue lashing against West Virginia, erred in his thinking that he was coming out of the game.