It is not hypocritical. First, the situation regarding KU's relationship is way different than it's relationship to MU. Second, he never really said never.
"To me it's a great rivalry, one of the best in college basketball without question, but I don't think I would be interested in having a once a year game like I did when I was at
Illinois, playing Missouri," Self said.
"I could probably change my mind (but) trust me, we would have no trouble finding another nonleague game to play. I love the rivalry. Playing home and home in the league is great and all those things ... (but) I can't imagine, why would we continue playing?
"If they choose to be somewhere other than with us and with the other schools that they've been a part of and could jeopardize the future of the other schools ... I'm not going to make a commitment now that we'd ever play again. I'm not saying we won't. I'm certainly not going to pretend that we would."
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketb...n=ncaab,wp5177