Saw a listing of SEC softball coaches salaries. As one might expect, coach Ricketts at MSU is the lowest paid coach in the league at approximately $186,000 per year as opposed to the highest paid coach (Florida) at approximately $550,000 per year. This is truly embarrassing!! Even the UMissy coach makes in excess of $223,000 per year. Selmon better wake up or we're going to lose a great coach who is building a great program, and then we'll be starting at ground zero - again!! Just for further comparison purposes, the softball coach makes $1,625,000 per year!!
SEC Softball Coaches Salaries
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Oops, left off the fact that it is the Oklahoma coach that makes $1,625,000 per years. Sorry for the omission.
Sounds like your daughter is enjoying her experience with the MSU softball program. Good to hear!
Just FYI, my daughter is 47 years old. . . .
Kudos to her for still being in shape enough to play college softball.
Not to mention having the skills to transition from slow pitch to fast pitch.
If appearance is any indication, "being in shape" isn't a high priority for a lot of softball players
Bottom line: program is growing. Coaches need a reward for a job well done. No need for stupid replies. Hail State!!
This thread went downhill quickly
The moment it was mentioned paying a softball coach $1.625M/Year we had officially..
After players are officially employees, that 1.6 mil will go to a starting QB.
I'd never pay a softball or baseball coach millions, nor a football coach 10s of millions.
OM got a last place for more money though. That's nice.
Selmon didn't make her last contract either and she finished bottom of the conference last year. She'll get a raise if she doesn't leave.
OM got a last place for more money though. That's nice.
Selmon didn't make her last contract either and she finished bottom of the conference last year. She'll get a raise if she doesn't leave.
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Some people on this board just wake up pissed off at Selmon
Keeping up with the Jones in softball coaching salaries is an interesting perspective
If you want to look at it in a more optimistic way... Mississippi State is paying our softball coach 18 times more than the average professional softball coach or player makes!
Unpopular opinion. People don't care about college softball they just care about the name of the college on the uniform. Same with women's basketball. If you can't take the popularity to the professional level, it's not the sport that people are supporting, just the schools.
Unpopular opinion. People don't care about college softball they just care about the name of the college on the uniform. Same with women's basketball. If you can't take the popularity to the professional level, it's not the sport that people are supporting, just the schools.
Can you blame us, we don't see a strongly worded email waiting in the morning from him extolling the drive as an Athletic Director he will not put up with losses.
Same with college baseball and really any sport besides maybe college football. Even men's basketball gets about zero national relevance until March and that's mostly because everybody has their office or social group bracket challenge.
If Samantha Ricketts wins 7 national titles, including a 3 peat (with a possibility of a 4 peat), I will personally drive Selmon to each and every BDC member’s house and shake them down for the money needed to keep her at Mississippi State.
Also, Patty Gasso has been coaching at OU for 30 years. If Samantha Ricketts is still here another 25 years, there’s a non-zero chance she’ll be making over a million dollars.
I don't really care one way or the other, but I think it'd be a perfectly legitimate strategy to aim to have the lowest paid coach in the conference in every sport other than football, men's basketball, and baseball.
It's just math. We don't have as much money as other schools. We have to spend less somewhere, so it should be in non-revenue sports unless we just have some committed fans for a particular sport that want to give to that sport rather than football or men's basketball. Baseball obviously has that. Don't know if any other program does.
Once we have something like Vic in women's basketball or softball, then there might be a return there for trying to keep up because being in the national champion game does bring some exposure. But for the most part spending money on those sports is not going to bring a great return.
Well, since you're obviously curious, she does workout at the gym quite frequently and she and her husband quite frequently hike, canoe, and camp in the mountains.
