Trev Kendall AlbertsJim Offner

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player who is the athletic director at

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. He played professionally as a

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for the

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of the

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(NFL). Alberts played

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for the

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, winning the Dick Butkus Award and Jack Lambert Trophy as a senior. Alberts was inducted to the

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in 2015. Following his collegiate success, Alberts played in the NFL with the Colts, who selected him fifth overall in the

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. His career ended after three seasons due to injuries. Alberts pursued a broadcasting career before serving as the athletic director at the

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from 2009 to 2021. In 2021, he returned to his alma mater's flagship campus in Lincoln to become its athletic director before being hired for the same position at Texas A&M in 2024.

Early life

Alberts was born in

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.National Football League, Historical Players
Trev Alberts
Retrieved February 11, 2012. He has a brother and sister. Trev Alberts attended Northern University High School in Cedar Falls,databaseFootball.com, Players, . Retrieved February 11, 2012. where he played for the Northern University Panthers

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team.

Career

College

While attending the University of Nebraska, he played for the

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team from 1990 to 1993. Following his senior season in 1993, he was awarded the Dick Butkus Award and Jack Lambert Trophy as the top college linebacker; Alberts was also recognized as a consensus first-team

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, after recording 15 quarterback sacks, 21 tackles for loss, and 38 quarterback hurries. Despite an injury early in the eleventh game of the season against the Oklahoma Sooners, Alberts returned with a cast on his arm for the national championship game against Florida State in the Orange Bowl. Although the Seminoles won 18–16, Alberts had a dominant performance with three sacks of

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-winner

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(FSU quarterbacks were sacked only five times during the 1993 regular season).

Professional

Selected in the first round with the fifth overall pick in the 1994 draft, Alberts began his

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career with the Indianapolis Colts and continued to play for the Colts from to .Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players
Trev Alberts
Retrieved February 11, 2012. Due to injuries he played portions of just three

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s before retiring before the 1997 season, tallying just four career

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s and one interception.

Broadcasting

Upon retirement from the NFL, Alberts was hired by the American

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CNN/SI and concomitantly its ''

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, where he served as a college football contributor. In 2002, Alberts joined the staff of the American cable television network

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, where he worked as an in-studio analyst for college football, ultimately joining

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and Mark May on the network's '' College GameDay Scoreboard'' and '' College GameDay Final.'' On September 6, 2005, Alberts was terminated by ESPN for breaching his contract when he declined to report to work; Alberts later claimed he did not want to "play second fiddle" to the more prominent cast of '' College GameDay,'' Chris Fowler,

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and

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. Alberts thereafter accepted a position as a

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for the

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of the

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cable television network

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. He worked as a color commentator for the ''

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'' Sunday afternoon radio broadcasts in 2006. He also provided color commentary for SEC football games on CBS. Alberts also served as an analyst for Sprint Exclusive Entertainment, breaking down college football and other sports for viewers.

Administrative career

Omaha Alberts was hired in April 2009 to be the director of athletics for the

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sports program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Alberts made the controversial decision to eliminate football and wrestling in an effort to bring University of Nebraska-Omaha to Division I's

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. The regents approved the move March 25, 2011. Nebraska On July 14, 2021, the

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announced Alberts as its next

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. On September 11, 2022, Alberts elected to fire football head coach

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. The move was seen as ill-timed as Frost's buyout would have almost $8 million less if Alberts had waited 3 more weeks. Texas A&M On March 13, 2024, Texas A&M University announced that Alberts had been hired as its new athletic director, replacing Ross Bjork, who took the same position at

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References

External links

Nebraska profile
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