COLUMBIA, Mo. • Missouri has not released a finalized contract for its new athletics director, but Mack Rhoades is working on a salary of $600,000, the university system custodian of records confirmed in response to an open records request for the salaries of several newly hired employees in Mizzou athletics.
Rhoades was hired in March to replace longtime AD Mike Alden, whose listed base salary at MU was $301,917, not counting bonuses and incentives. Missouri paid Alden $674,317 in 2014, according to USA Today’s annual survey on college athletics salaries.