When Charlie Weis draws his final paycheck from Kansas Athletics in 2016, he will have been paid $12.5 million for winning one Big 12 game. Turner Gill made $10 million for one Big 12 victory.

Such madness must stop.

Barring landing a proven big fish such as Jim Harbaugh, KU will hire an interim head coach, an assistant coach from a major conference, or a successful head coach from a smaller league.

If that coach insists on big bucks guaranteed, then he’s not confident he can scale the huge roadblocks to success at Kansas. Consequently, he’s not worth hiring.

Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger ought to consider loading the next coach’s contract with incentives, a good way to gauge how genuinely that coach believes he can get it done at KU and a way of ensuring that a coach only will be paid like a winner if he’s winning football games. What a novel concept.

Guarantee the next coach $4.5 million for five years, $900,000 per year, and give him a $200,000 bonus for every Big 12 victory. Make the money earned the previous season, plus the conference victories bonus money, the base pay for the following year.

For illustration purposes, let’s say the next coach wins one Big 12 game his first season, two his second, three his third, four his fourth, five his fifth. That record likely would result in back-to-back bowl appearances. Here’s how much he would be paid each season: $1 million, $1.4 million, $2 million, $2.8 million, $3.8 million.

That adds up to 15 conference victories for $11 million in salary, compared to two Big 12 victories for $22.5 million in the Gill and Weis errors combined. Two victories in five seasons under the bonus system would mean paying just $4.9 million in five years for a lousy coach.

I don’t sense anyone has an appetite to guarantee huge bucks to another coach with no first-hand knowledge of what works and what doesn’t at KU, unless it’s Harbaugh, high on every sensible NFL team’s list.