The regret was evident in Bill Self’s voice.
This was less than a month ago — just outside his team’s locker room at Arizona State — when his team picked up its first loss of the season after giving it away on the game’s most important possession.
Self had called a play during a timeout, but it hadn’t been executed. He wanted Lagerald Vick to go one way. Vick went the other. The turnover came after that.
So as Self leaned back against a cinder-block wall, the inflection of his tone changed as he spilled his guts to reporters.