Mark Kellogg

MORGANTOWN — At the current rate, WVU women’s basketball coach Mark Kellogg is going to lead the league in contract amendments.

He’s currently at two since his original contract in Jan. 2024. The most recent one, finalized on June 30, has the potential to keep Kellogg tied to the Mountaineers through the end of the 2031-32 season.

The coach’s total income could reach as high as $5.725 million, not including incentives, over the lifetime of the deal and the second amendment also alters Kellogg’s buyout and retention incentive.

Over his first two seasons at WVU, Kellogg has guided the Mountaineers to a 50-16 record, including two trips into the second round of the NCAA tournament.

WVU finished in a tie for fourth in the Big 12 last season, which triggered an automatic extension clause in his first amendment that tied Kellogg to WVU through the end of the 2029-30 season.

In his second amendment, Kellogg is still signed through that same season, but now has an automatic extension clause that would extend the contract an additional two seasons if WVU again finishes in the top six in the Big 12 standings over the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons.

If WVU were to finish in the top six in just one of those seasons, Kellogg would earn just a one-year extension.

In terms of salary, Kellogg will make $675,000 for the upcoming season, a raise of $75,000 over the first amendment.

Each following season will also be worth $75,000 more, an initial raise of $375,000 over the first amendment.

If Kellogg were to pocket the two additional seasons, they would be worth a total of $1.625 million.

There was also a slight change to his retention incentive.

If Kellogg is still employed at WVU as of August 1, he earns a bonus of $25,000. In the following years, that bonus goes up to $75,000 per year.

In his first amendment, the retention bonus was worth $50,000 per year. Kellogg’s buyout was also changed.

If the school were to fire Kellogg without cause — a firing based on performance — it would owe the coach 75% of his remaining base salary, a 25% decrease.

If Kellogg were to leave early to coach at another school, he would owe WVU 37.5% of his remaining base salary, which was lowered from 50%.

In the event Kellogg leaves WVU to coach at another Big 12 school, his buyout would be 100% of his remaining base salary, a condition that’s been in Kellogg’s contract since the beginning.

In all, it is a major commitment to Kellogg and the women’s hoops program.

In theory, if Kellogg were to earn both of the automatic extensions, the 2031-32 season could potentially make him the first WVU women’s basketball coach to earn $1 million in a single season, depending on how much he would earn that season from his incentive package.

That would include the $825,000 salary, a $75,000 retention bonus and the incentives. It is believed Kellogg earned $70,000 in incentives last season.