MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — West Virginia baseball coach Randy Mazey is no longer the lowest paid baseball coach in the Big 12.
The school announced a three-year contract extension with Mazey on Monday that will run through the 2025 season.
He will earn a salary of $415,000 — $250,00 is base and $165,000 is supplemental — next season, a raise of $5,500 from last year when he guided the Mountaineers to a 38-22 record.
By maxing out his incentives package, Mazey could earn up to an extra $459,000 next season, including a total of $260,000 for winning the national championship, according to the contract.
West Virginia also hosted its first NCAA tournament regional for the first time since 1955 last season and finished No. 20 in Baseball America’s final rankings.
Mazey is now under contract for the next six seasons, which would be worth a total of $2.49 million.
If Mazey is fired without cause before the end of the deal, he would be owed a full-season’s salary and incentives, according to the contract.
If he leaves WVU for another job, Mazey’s buy-out begins at $125,000 in 2020 and drops $25,000 per year after that until it reaches the minimum of $50,000 after May 31, 2022.
“Coach Mazey continues to build WVU baseball into a competitive Big 12 and national brand,” WVU athletic director Shane Lyons said in a statement. “Our program currently has great momentum, and I look forward to this continuity with Randy and his staff.
“Our fans have enjoyed our recent baseball success, which has turned Monongalia County Ballpark into a great baseball environment. It’s quite evident that Randy is the person we need to continue leading WVU baseball.”
Mazey’s 2018 salary of $360,000 — before incentives — was the lowest among Big 12 coaches.
He is now fifth, with TCU’s Jim Schlossnagle ($1.109 million) and Texas Tech’s Tim Tadlock ($1 milion) ahead of the other seven coaches in the conference.
Mazey was the Big 12 and ABCA East Regional Coach of the Year in 2019, and he also led WVU to the 2017 NCAA tournament.
West Virginia has advanced to the Big 12 tournament semifinals in each of the last four seasons.
In his first seven seasons, Mazey is the school’s fourth-winningest coach at 227-176.
“My family and I would like to thank WVU President Gordon Gee, Shane Lyons, Keli Zinn and Matt Wells for their commitment to WVU baseball and for sharing in my vision of taking Mountaineer baseball to places it has never been before,” Mazey said. “I would also like to thank the Morgantown community, the fans, all former Mountaineer players and our current players and staff for their commitment and hard work.
“Our program is in a great place right now and without the support of all those people, none of what we have accomplished would be possible.”
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