John Calipari Net Worth and Salary: John Calipari is a $45 million net worth American collegiate basketball coach. John had a lengthy and successful career as a college basketball coach, and he will be the head coach at the University of Kentucky in 2021. He's been in this role since 2009. Before that, from 1979 to 2008, he coached at four different schools—St. Louis, Memphis, UMass, and Kentucky. He started out at St. Louis (Missouri) in 1979, just a year after it was dropped from the NCAA Division I basketball league. In only his second season, he led the school to its first 20-win season ever. In 1984, he took over at Memphis where he stayed for five seasons before moving on to Massachusetts. At UMass, he achieved much success, including two National Invitation Tournaments (1985, '86), and an Atlantic 10 Championship in 1987. In 1989, he landed on Broadway with a new job: coaching the New York Knicks' youth team. The next year, he moved up to the NBA level and helped the Knicks win the 1990 NBA Championship. In 1991, he returned to college basketball and joined the Kentucky Wildcats staff under then-head coach Rick Pitino. In four years at Kentucky, Calipari won two SEC titles and one NCAA Tournament game. After losing in the semifinals of the 1995 NCAA Tournament to North Carolina, he left UK to take over at Memphis again.