On Thursday, Wilson Alexander from nola.com reported that LSU Tigers head coach Jay Johnson is set to receive a massive contract extension through the 2032 season.
Johnson will make more than $3 million annually. He will make $3.05 over this next year, and that will increase per year up to $3.65 million in the final year of this new contract.
This contract makes Johnson the highest-paid coach in college baseball. That title used to belong to Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello, who is making $3 million a year through 2029.
Johnson is also now one of five coaches who make more than $2 million a year. The other four are Vitello, Mississippi State’s Brian O’Connor, Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin, and Texas’ Jim Schlossnagle.
Johnson is coming off a season where he delivered a national championship to LSU. It is the Tigers’ eighth national title in program history and the second one they have won in three seasons.
The Tigers went 53-15 overall in the 2025 season.
In four full seasons now in Baton Rouge, Johnson has won 190 total games with LSU. He has won at least 40 games in every season with the Tigers and has led them to the NCAA Tournament in all of those seasons.
He has been named the National Coach of the Year twice in 2023 and 2025, both were national title-winning seasons for the LSU Tigers.
NCAA News: https://worldbaseball.com/league/ncaa/
PHOTO: LSU head coach Jay Johnson walks around the diamond during an NCAA baseball game against North Alabama on Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
