Texas A&M is focusing on Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts for a similar place, 247Sports confirms. Alberts would exchange Ross Bjork, who left to turn out to be the athletic director at Ohio State in January. Alberts a former Nebraska soccer legend.
Below Alberts’ watch, the athletic division underwent a interval of robust enchancment. Alberts fired former Nebraska star Scott Frost and employed former Baylor and Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule, who posted robust returns in his first season regardless of a 5-7 general file. Alberts additionally organized Nebraska Volleyball Day in August 2023, when the college hosted the most-attended girls’s sporting occasion of all time with greater than 92,000 followers inside Memorial Stadium. Nebraska girls’s basketball is ready to make consecutive NCAA Tournaments for the primary time since 2014, whereas the boys’s staff may attain the Massive Dance for the primary time because the identical 12 months.
Alberts has led Nebraska’s athletic division since 2021 when his alma mater employed him away from Nebraska-Omaha. The rent was considerably shocking as Alberts had no prior administrative expertise on the FBS degree. Nebraska-Omaha eradicated its soccer program whereas transitioning as much as the Summit League.
Notably, Alberts agreed to a contract extension with Nebraska in November 2023 taking him by way of 2031 and paying him greater than $2 million beginning in 2026. Texas A&M must pay a $4 million buyout to get out of Alberts’ Nebraska contract, based on Yahoo Sports activities.
Alberts was a standout linebacker at Nebraska within the Nineties whose No. 34 is retired by this system. In 1993, Alberts gained the Butkus Award and was named a unanimous All-American.
