Apr. 1—MORGANTOWN — Mark Kellogg will become the highest paid WVU women's basketball coach ever ... in 2029.
Kellogg's contract was released to The Dominion Post on Tuesday through a Freedom of Information request.
After signing with the Mountaineers in 2023, Kellogg has led WVU to 50 wins over his first two seasons, each one ending in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Details of Kellogg's contract show an unannounced extension for the 2028-29 season that was signed last July.
His original contract was a five-year deal that ran through the end of the 2027-28 season.
It also shows a retention incentive worth $50, 000 to be paid on or before June 1 of every year he remains at the school. The incentive was not in Kellogg's original contract.
Kellogg has also since earned an automatic one-year extension after WVU finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big 12 this season.
That extension will keep him signed at WVU through the 2029-30 season.
In all, Kellogg will earn $4.725 million—plus incentives—over the length of the seven years he will be signed with the Mountaineers.
His total salary for the 2028-29 season will pay him $675, 000.
With an annual retention incentive of $50, 000 added on top of that, Kellogg's $725, 000 salary for that season tops that of former WVU women's head coach Mike Carey, who earned $720, 000 in his final season at the school in 2021-22.
For the remainder of the deal, Kellogg's buyout—if he were to leave to coach another school—would be 50 % of the remaining salary.
That would be unless he left to coach at another Big 12 school, which would mean Kellogg would owe WVU the full amount of his remaining salary.
If WVU were to fire Kellogg for convenience before the end of the contract, the school would owe him 100 % of his remaining salary.
