The final tally: Notre Dame paid Charlie Weis nearly $19M to leave

It's common knowledge that Notre Dame grew tired of having Charlie Weis as its head football coach, but how badly did it want him gone exactly?

If you guessed $19-million bad, you may want to go buy a lottery ticket.

After being fired following the 2009 season, Charlie Weis was given a buyout package that, upon its completion, paid him a whopping total of $18,967,960, according to Laken Litman of the Indy Star. The figures were released Monday and are disclosed on Notre Dame's federal tax return for 2015.

He received $6.6 million of the total package in 2009 when he was initially given his walking papers, and a yearly amount of $2,054,742 until the buyout was paid in full following the 2015 calendar year. That's a lot of money considering that current head coach Brian Kelly makes less than half of that in yearly base salary, coming in at $990,000.

Weis kept busy after leaving Notre Dame, joining the Kansas City Chiefs and later the University of Florida in assistant roles before agreeing to become the head coach at Kansas. Weis earned a paycheck of $2.5-million per year in his three seasons with the Jayhawks, and another $5.6 million after being fired following the 2014 season.

The bottom line: it's incredibly likely that no one has made more money losing jobs than Charlie Weis. That's something they don't exactly teach you in first-year business courses.