Bill Self on Thursday was again asked to address rumors that Oklahoma State will try to hire him if second-year Cowboy coach Sean Sutton is replaced at the end of this season.

Speaking at his weekly news conference, Self, Kansas University’s fifth-year coach reiterated it’s a “dead issue.”

“It’s not going to happen so to be honest with you, it is a disservice to everybody involved to call attention to it,” Self said, asked if he pays attention to Internet message boards and blogs that insist OSU booster Boone Pickens wants Self to coach the Cowboys.

“The only thing I know about any of that,” OSU grad Self said, “is that people (media) have requested to interview me about it and I haven’t (done the interviews). I don’t get on any blogs. I don’t care what anybody says. I think it’s an injustice to their present staff because they deserve every opportunity to do as well as they can possibly do.

“I don’t think anybody in the know or anybody I personally know … they know me and know what our situation is here. That hasn’t been anything that has remotely come up with me. It’s not worth talking about because it’s a dead issue.”

Collins knee injury update

Sherron Collins has not practiced yet this week as he continues to recover from a deep bruise on his right knee. Self said he hopes Collins, who had a workout in the pool on Thursday afternoon, will be able to play Saturday against Oklahoma State but “will not be 100 percent.”