Charlie Weis Biography

Charlie Weiss born Charles Joseph Weis is a former American football coach. He was the head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 2005 to 2009 and the Kansas Jayhawks from 2012 to 2014. He also served as an offensive coordinator in the National Football League for the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs.

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Charlie Weis Age

Charles Joseph Weis was born in Trenton, New Jersey March 30, 1956. He is 63 years as of 2019.

Charlie Weis Family

Charles Joseph Weis was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up in Middlesex, New Jersey. He graduated from Middlesex High School. He has one older sister and three younger brothers, one of whom attended West Point.

Charlie Weis Wife

Weis is a married man. He and his wife, Maura, have two children, Charles Joseph “Charlie” and Hannah Margaret. Charlie Jr. is the offensive coordinator for Florida Atlantic. In 2003, Weis and his wife established the Hannah & Friends Foundation, dedicated to children affected by developmental disorders and named after his daughter, who is autistic. In the spring of 2004, the inaugural Hannah & Friends Celebrity Golf Classic was held to benefit the foundation.

Health issues

In 2002, Weis underwent gastric bypass surgery, after which he lost 90 lb (41 kg; 6.4 st) from his top weight of 350 lb (160 kg; 25 st). When asked why he underwent surgery, he stated he was afraid he would “drop dead” from obesity. Because of complications from the surgery, he spent two weeks in a coma and nearly died. Weis was so close to death that he reportedly received the Catholic last rites.

Weis later sued the doctors who performed the surgery for malpractice and lost. A major reason cited for the jury’s decision is that Weis ignored doctors’ advice and pushed to have the operation done quickly, rather than going through a recommended six-week preoperative program.

Playing against Michigan on September 13, 2008, one of Notre Dame’s players, John Ryan, ran into Charlie Weis by accident. Weis tore his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in the process and had to undergo surgery.

Charlie Weis Career

Coaching career

After graduating from Notre Dame in 1978, Weis began his coaching career at Boonton High School in New Jersey. He spent the next five seasons at perennial powerhouse Morristown High School in New Jersey as a football assistant developing generational talents such as Michael Landsberg.  In 1985, he was hired by head coach Joe Morrison at the University of South Carolina, where he received his master’s degree in education while working as a graduate assistant position coach and assistant recruiting coordinator.

He served four seasons on the Gamecock staff until Morrison died in 1989. He then returned to New Jersey as the head coach at Franklin High School and directed Franklin Township to the New Jersey state championship while also assisting in the New York Giants’ pro personnel department.

New England Patriots

Weis returned to New England Patriots following Parcells’ announced retirement after the 1999 season. He served as offensive coordinator under head coach Bill Belichick from 2000 through 2004, installing the Erhardt-Perkins offensive system, and assisting the Patriots in three Super Bowl victories (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX).

Charlie Weis Notre Dame

On November 30, 2004, after finishing its football season with a 6–5 record, Notre Dame released head coach Tyrone Willingham. After first-choice Urban Meyer accepted the head coaching position at the University of Florida. The university hired Weis on December 12, 2004, becoming the 28th football coach in Notre Dame history with a six-year contract worth a reported US$2 million per year.

He was the first Notre Dame graduate to hold the football head coaching position since Hugh Devore (a 1934 graduate) served as interim coach in 1945 and 1963. He was the first alumnus to serve as the Irish football coach on a full-fledged basis since Joe Kuharich (a 1938 Notre Dame graduate), who coached at Notre Dame from 1959 through 1962.

Kansas City Chiefs

Charlie Weis was named offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs for 2010. In his first year, the Chiefs improved from a record of 4–12 to 10–6 and returned to the playoffs after winning the AFC West Division. With Weis as offensive coordinator, the Chiefs had the NFL’s best rushing attack, averaging an impressive 165 yards per game on the ground. Offensively the Chiefs ranked 9th in total offense, 11th in points per game, and 1st in rushing, but 28th in passing.

However, the Chiefs also sent four players on offense (WR Dwayne Bowe, RB Jamaal Charles, QB Matt Cassel, and OG Brian Waters) to the Pro Bowl. Cassel, Bowe, and Charles made their first-ever trip to the Pro Bowl. Weis has also been credited with the improvement of Cassel who had a career year throwing for 27 touchdowns and only 5 interceptions in 14 games.

Florida

On December 31, 2010, ESPN reported that Weis was targeted by the Florida Gators to become the next offensive coordinator under new head coach Will Muschamp. On January 2, 2011, Chiefs coach Todd Haley announced he would indeed be leaving for the Florida offensive coordinator position effective at the end of the season. His tenure was broadly criticized after the team finished ranked 102nd nationally with just 334.17 yards per game.

Kansas

On December 8, 2011, Weis was named the head football coach for the University of Kansas replacing Turner Gill. He initially stated that he would not stay longer than the duration of his five-year contract, which would have run out in 2016, but school officials persuaded him to consider a longer stay. His 2012 team struggled to a 1–11 record in what was dubbed as a rebuilding year.

Weis’ 2013 team showed signs of improvement. Although they only compiled a 3–9 record, Weis’ Jayhawks ended a 27-game Big 12 Conference losing streak with a 31–19 home victory over West Virginia in November 2013. Weis was fired on September 28, 2014, for “lack of on-field progress”. Clint Bowen took over from Charlie.

Charlie Weis Works

• Weis, Charlie & Carucci, Vic (2006), No Excuses: One Man’s Incredible Rise Through the NFL to Head Coach of Notre Dame, New York: HarperLargePrint, ISBN 0-06-123307-2

Charlie Weis Net Worth

Charlie is a former American football coach. He also served as the head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Since 2012, he earns $2,500,000.

Charlie Weis Contract

Weis Was Paid $65 Million To Not do His Job

The sports world is based on contracts, and contracts are not only between an athlete and the team but between coaches and the team. Most sports contracts include a hefty amount of money for coaches, especially in pro sports, but college contracts are also proving to be quite lucrative for coaches, and this is including contractual buyouts as well.

It is not uncommon for a player or a coach to make a large sum for being asked to leave a franchise, but the latest buyout of Charlie Weis, coach for the Fighting Irish, has made headlines through the recent years due to the size of Notre Dame’s payout to have him move on.

The firing took place in 2009 and Weis was given his first installment for his dismissal. As of December 2015, he was receiving his last payment, and the total is the largest buyouts in the history of the Fighting Irish. It proves that coaches can not only make substantial amounts of money while coaching a team, but they can also make a hefty payout to not coach a team, too.

According to Notre Dame’s federal tax returns, which were just released on Monday, Weis received $6.6 million at the time of the firing in 2009 and would receive approximately $2.05 million each year following. The payments ran between 2010 and 2014 and by the end of the payout schedule in December of 2015, Weis had received nearly $19 million in buyout monies from the Fighting Irish to no longer coach for them. This amount includes money he was receiving from Play By Play Sports LLC, a multimedia and marketing rights entity that belongs to Notre Dame Sports Properties, in the sum of $470,000. He received that payment in 2010.

What’s more interesting is that the buyout payouts from Notre Dame wasn’t the only money Weis was receiving from a sports organization. As large of a sum of money as that is, Weis also received a large amount of money for a similar situation in 2014 after he coached two appalling seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, as an assistant coach, and was fired. He was hired as an assistant coach for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2011 and subsequently moved up to head coach. He had also worked for the University of Florida during this time. Kansas owed Weis $5.6 million under his contract, and after deductions, the buyout with Kansas wound up costing them $5.4 million, which he was receiving while being compensated by Notre Dame.

Because universities and private colleges are non-profit organizations, this means that they must file an annual tax return that includes information about their most highly paid employees. The tax returns will cover two calendar years, in part, but the IRS is most interested in the compensation for the most recent year.

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