Texas A&M has employed Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts for a similar place, the college introduced Wednesday. Alberts replaces Ross Bjork, who left to grow to be the athletic director at Ohio State in January. Alberts a former Nebraska soccer legend.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but additionally efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Texas A&M president Trev Welsh stated in a press release launched by the college. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, significantly within the realm of Identify, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
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 ladies’s sporting occasion of all time with greater than 92,000 followers inside Memorial Stadium. Nebraska ladies’s basketball is ready to make consecutive NCAA Tournaments for the primary time since 2014, whereas the lads’s crew might attain the Massive Dance for the primary time because the identical 12 months.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts stated in a press release launched by the college. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M just isn’t solely as a result of its prestigious popularity but additionally due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I consider, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Alberts has led Nebraska’s athletic division since 2021 when his alma mater employed him away from Nebraska-Omaha. The rent was considerably stunning 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 via 2031 and paying him greater than $2 million beginning in 2026. Texas A&M needed to pay a $4 million buyout to get out of Alberts’ Nebraska contract, in accordance with Yahoo Sports activities.
Alberts was a standout linebacker at Nebraska within the Nineteen Nineties whose No. 34 is retired by this system. In 1993, Alberts received the Butkus Award and was named a unanimous All-American.