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John Calipari (official thread of impending probation)

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Say what you want about Calipari; but he pays his assistants well...

Kentucky now has an assistant coach making $700K per season

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Kenny Payne will make more money next season than 22 coaches who reached the 2015 NCAAs.

How massive is Kentucky hoops? The program is so successful and vital to the local economy, its assistant basketball coaches are now making more than a hearty percentage of head coaches within the sport.

And quite a few Division I football coaches, too.

On Monday, it was revealed that Wildcats assistant Kenny Payne is on a new contract that will pay him $700,000 per year. While we can't officially claim this to be the most lucrative contract for an assistant coach in college basketball history, it's likely that is exactly the case for Payne.

Between Payne and UK's two other assistants, John Robic and Tony Barbee, the men who work under John Calipari will total $1.44 million in salary next season. Calipari, by the way, recently upped his contract to approximately $8 million/year, making him the highest-paid college hoops coach in the country.

That's a big reason why he's publicly stated he's not interested in any NBA job.

Big Blue is rolling in "big green".
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Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...has-an-assistant-coach-making-700k-per-season
 
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Paying a college basketball coach $8 million per season? I had missed that one before. I know salaries are escalating quickly, but I believe that is about double what most of the top coaches in the sport get at this time.
 
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Systems_id said:
Nah there are several teams more talented than LSU any given year plus Miles has to go up against Saban. Miles would probably have two NCs if he got to play Okie State instead of Alabama in 2011. Any given year Calipari usually has basically an NBA squad and has done fuck all with it.
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We're talking about the man who rode Odell Beckham, Jeremy Hill, Alfred Blue, La'el Collins and Zach Mettenberger to an Outback Bowl title a couple years ago. I stand by my comparison.
 
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jlb1705 said:
We're talking about the man who rode Odell Beckham, Jeremy Hill, Alfred Blue, La'el Collins and Zach Mettenberger to an Outback Bowl title a couple years ago. I stand by my comparison.
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It's a solid comparison, but not quite there. If Les Miles rode the 2001 Miami Hurricanes roster for 7 straight years and had one title to show for it, then it'd be perfect. Year in and year out, he has had practically an nba starting five, where as most other top programs might have 2-3 nba guys in theirs.
 
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Report: Calipari tells Nets he wants $120 million to return to NBA

When it comes to college basketball, it’s hard to argue any coach is worth more than Kentucky’s John Calipari. But when it comes to the NBA, his track record hardly screams “Phil Jackson money!”

But according to a report by Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski early Monday morning, that’s exactly what Calipari wants in order to leave Kentucky’s bluegrass for the NBA’s green pastures. And the team who most wants him may be the one with whom he notoriously flamed out.

According to Wojnarowski:

“For Calipari to consider the Nets -- and, yes, the Sacramento Kings, too -- league sources tell Yahoo Sports that the teams have been informed of his asking price: 10 years, $120 million.”

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/...lars-return-nba-kentucky-wildcats-ncaa-011116
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Report: Calipari tells Nets he wants $120 million to return to NBA

When it comes to college basketball, it’s hard to argue any coach is worth more than Kentucky’s John Calipari. But when it comes to the NBA, his track record hardly screams “Phil Jackson money!”

But according to a report by Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski early Monday morning, that’s exactly what Calipari wants in order to leave Kentucky’s bluegrass for the NBA’s green pastures. And the team who most wants him may be the one with whom he notoriously flamed out.

According to Wojnarowski:

“For Calipari to consider the Nets -- and, yes, the Sacramento Kings, too -- league sources tell Yahoo Sports that the teams have been informed of his asking price: 10 years, $120 million.”

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/...lars-return-nba-kentucky-wildcats-ncaa-011116
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For a guy who's biggest strength is recruiting top players, entirely through cheating his ass off in all probability, and then underperforming year after year with better players than literally every team he plays against, that price tag seems a bit high in a league where he won't be recruiting anyone and he won't have better players than anyone.
 
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he thought they should have been seeded higher because they beat Texas A&M in the conference championship game. Guess someone should tell him that the Aggies are still playing while he is out doling money someplace to potential recruits..
 
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