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The 25 Highest Paid Coaches in the World

What do you think it would take to be among the highest paid coaches in the world?  Wouldn't you imagine that you should be at the very pinnacle of your game, having won mutliple championships either for one team. or perhaps, if you're a bit peripatetic, for multiple clubs?  As this list makes clear, the expectation of winning is often sufficient to obtain the elusive lucrative contract, especially at the lower end of this extraordinary list of overpaid managers.  See, for example, entrants 25, 24 and 20.  The entire list can be found here.

The list is headed by Luis Felipe Scolari, the former coach of a legendary Brazilian World Cup winning team, hired and sacked at Chelsea in less than a year and currently coaching a club in Uzbekistan but enjoying Roman Abromavich's millions nonetheless.  Bringing up the rear, so to speak, are those two championship coaches Charlie Weiss and John Calipari.  Weiss got that now infamous 10 year, $30-40 million contract extension barely halfway through his first season and seems well on his way out of a job at season's end. 

Calipari, who was deemed "too hot to handle" when Kentucky went looking for a coach three years ago, but two less successful seasons than Big Blue fans were accustomed to made Cal look more appealing.  Of course, making it to one of the two Final Fours he has managed to take a team to didn't hurt.  UK of course, just ignored the fact that both of those Final Fours have been vacated by the NCAA, making Cal the only coach to ever have that happen.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).