MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia baseball coach Randy Mazey has been rewarded for his program’s historic 2019 season.
WVU athletic director Shane Lyons announced that the school has worked out a contract extension that will keep Mazey in charge of the program through the 2025 season, a three-year extension to Mazey’s original contract.
According to an official school release, Mazey’s base pay is $250,000 with supplemental pay of $165,000, bringing his yearly compensation package to $415,000. The six-year contract is worth a total of $2.49 million. Mazey will also be eligible to receive up to a maximum of $459,000 yearly if annual performance incentives are met.
Mazey’s buyout if he accepts another coaching job starts at $125,000 this year and decreases by $25,000 each ensuing year until 2022. Mazey would owe WVU $50,000 if he departs any year between 2022-25.
“Coach Mazey continues to build WVU baseball into a competitive Big 12 and national brand,” Lyons said in the release. “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.”
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Mon County Ballpark hosted a regional in 2019, marking the first time postseason baseball was played at a WVU venue since 1955. West Virginia has reached NCAA regionals in two of the past three seasons.
West Virginia finished the year ranked 19th in the final National College Baseball Writers Association poll, capping off the most successful season in the program’s history.
“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 in the school’s release. “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. Let’s Go Mountaineers!”
Mazey has transformed a program once on the verge of potential extinction in the Big East into a Big 12 contender against national powers like Texas, Texas Tech, TCU and Oklahoma State. He is the fourth-winningest coach in program history with an overall record of 227-176 (.563) in seven seasons.