After three years at Nebraska, Trev Alberts is about to interchange Ross Bjork as the brand new athletic director for Texas A&M.
Bjork left School Station in January after 5 years to grow to be athletic director at Ohio State. Coincidently, Bjork was employed for the Buckeye athletic director place by former Nebraska president Ted Carter.
At 9:12 a.m. a tweet shared that Alberts, the present Nebraska athletic director, was the primary goal for the Aggies. The tweet from Bruce Feldman notes that Alberts is prone to settle for the job and head to School Station.
Alberts performed soccer at Nebraska from 1990-1993 the place he was an All-American and had his No. 34 retired in Memorial Stadium. Following his extremely acknowledged faculty soccer profession, Alberts got here again to his alma mater to grow to be the athletic director in 2021.
Shortly after the beginning of his tenure, he was supplied a significant contract extension that doubled his wage from $853,882 to $1.7 million. In 2026, his wage was to be elevated to $2.1 million. The contract extension was by way of 2031, which leaves many questioning what occurred within the three years he has been right here.
Since his begin in Lincoln, there have been some administrative adjustments to the college. Carter, who had been the system president for the College of Nebraska-Lincoln for 4 years, left to be the president at Ohio State College throughout Alberts’s time as athletic director. Since Carter’s departure, Chris Kabourek has been the College of Nebraska system president.
Alberts additionally witnessed a chancellor change at UNL. Ronnie Inexperienced was UNL’s chancellor for seven years courting again to 2016 earlier than retiring on the finish of the 2023 spring time period. In the summertime of 2023, Rodney Bennett assumed the function of chancellor for the college.
Alberts has finished some admirable issues for the Nebraska sports activities applications. For starters, the hiring of Nebraska head soccer coach Matt Rhule had rather a lot to do with Alberts. Rhule was hand-picked by Alberts — a big purpose why the previous Carolina Panthers head coach made the transfer to Lincoln.
Alberts additionally performed an enormous function within the execution of Volleyball Day in Nebraska. The volleyball crew performed at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln and housed 92,003 folks, breaking a world document for essentially the most attended ladies’s sporting occasion.
Alberts believed within the hiring of present males’s basketball head coach Fred Hoiberg, Bruce Feldman mentioned in an article for The Athletic. Regardless of solely successful 24 video games in Hoiberg’s first three seasons as head coach, Alberts confirmed continued help for Hoiberg. Now the lads’s basketball crew is coming off of a 3rd place end within the Huge Ten and is on its solution to the massive dance on the finish of March.
On a extra present be aware, the lawsuit towards present ladies’s basketball head coach Amy Williams, former assistant coach Chuck Love, Alberts and the NU Board of Regents has been protruding like a sore thumb within the administrative eyes at Nebraska. For the reason that lawsuit by former basketball participant Ashley Scoggin was filed final month, neither NU nor Texas A&M have commented additional. Whereas this isn’t a tell-tale signal of why Alberts would depart in the course of his newly renewed contract, the authorized enterprise and eminent bother may very well be a purpose for an early departure.
The anticipated deal at Texas A&M will final for 5 years and would put Alberts among the many prime of the SEC and within the prime 10 athletic administrators nationally, Pete Thamel mentioned on X, previously often known as Twitter.
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