$400,000 is the highest paid baseball coach in the history of Nebraska. We can, and will, pay more but coach Bolt will need to advance further than a regional final to get more than $500,000 IMO. (And I'm sure he knows and understands this).
Coach Bolt just received a 33.5% pay increase. And his assistants are receiving a raise as well. An increase of 33.5% is a statement to coach Bolt.
Doubling his current salary, which would then be $800,000, is roughly 7% more than Lemonis made this year at Mississippi State. And his accomplishments far outweigh what coach Bolt has to date (even prior to 2021 CWS).
2021 CWS participants head coach salaries
Vanderbilt - $1.2M+ (reportedly)
Arizona - $850,000
Virginia - $765,000
Mud State - $750,000
Texas - $730,000 ($120K less than normal due to Covid)
Tennessee - $550,000
NCST - $435,000
Stanford - (unknown)
Tennessee is expected to throw a boatload out after this season so I assume he's gonna be pressing close to $1M soon. Danny White isn't messing around on this.
Coach Bolt saw first hand what the SEC did to his mentor, Rob Childress. Who's to say he wants that? I'd be more concerned over an Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or TCU than I would be an SEC school. Nebraska needs to make a facility commitment
soon to baseball. It's long overdue and we've been passed by Kansas freaking State & Wichita State
. The videoboard was nice for 2020 but our locker-room hasn't been updated since Haymarket Park opened. We're
way behind the times on updates. And don't get me started on the Alex Gordon Center. Thank you AG for the donation, but he deserves more than what that represents.
And I haven't even touched our atrocious travel situations. Again, another investment but this one has to include softball as an equal thanks to Title IV. The B1G can solve this problem extremely easy but they're so flipping incompetent it's beyond sickening.