Former Maryland baseball coach Rob Vaughn to make $900,000 yearly with Alabama

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — New Alabama baseball coach Rob Vaughn is ready to make a minimum of $900,000 yearly beneath his five-year deal.

The University of Alabama trustees compensation committee authorised the brand new deal for Vaughn on Tuesday, together with contracts for different coaches and directors.

Vaughn’s deal consists of an array of bonuses, together with one month’s pay ($82,500) for successful or sharing a Southeastern Conference regular-season title and two months pay ($163,000) for successful a nationwide championship.

Vaughn changed Brad Bohannon, who was fired in May after a report of suspicious bets involving his group, with the college saying he violated “the standards, duties and responsibilities expected of university employees.”

Vaughn spent the previous six seasons as head coach at Maryland, the place he was the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year in 2022 and 2023.

It’s an enormous enhance from Bohannon’s deal, which might have paid him $525,000.

Pitching coach Jason Jackson, who completed out the season as interim coach, has been promoted to affiliate head coach. He is ready to make $300,000 yearly beneath a brand new two-year deal.

Women’s basketball coach Kristy Curry’s new four-year deal is value $550,000 yearly plus incentives.