Texas A&M went and located an athletic director from the Heavy Ten nearest its earlier AD was at the Heavy Ten.
A&M introduced Wednesday afternoon that it had leased Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts to interchange Ross Bjork. Bjork left A&M previous in 2024 to replace the retiring Gene Smith at Ohio State.
Alberts has been Nebraska’s athletic director since 2021. The previous Nebraska linebacker took over for Invoice Moos nearest Moos retired.
“I want to welcome Trev and his family to Aggieland,” former Texas A&M teacher and period in-between athletic director R.C. Slocum mentioned in a observation. “I want to thank President [Mark] Welsh, and also the committee led by Dave Dunlap for their thorough and tremendous efforts in selecting Trev Alberts to lead our student-athletes, coaches and staff.”
Alberts’ primary precedence at Nebraska was once to rebuild the soccer program. Alberts performed at Nebraska within the early Nineteen Nineties when the Huskers have been one of the crucial dominant techniques within the nation. Nebraska has taken a vital step again over the life 20 years. The Cornhuskers have simply 3 10-win seasons since 2003 and haven’t reached double-digits since 2012.
A successful season could be great for Nebraska at this level. Nebraska hasn’t gotten to .500 since a 9-4 season in 2016. Next 4 underwhelming seasons with Scott Frost on the helm, Alberts moved briefly in 2022 and fired Frost nearest a Occasion 3 loss to Georgia Southern. He after coated up former Baylor and Carolina Panthers teacher Matt Rhule to break in this system in 2023. The Huskers went 5-7 in Rhule’s first season and join a loyalty from magnificence of 2024 five-star quarterback Dominic Raiola.
At A&M, Alberts has a related soccer job. The Aggies had been one of the crucial underwhelming groups in faculty soccer over the utmost few seasons — particularly relating to the amount of cash A&M and its boosters have spent at the soccer program. Next a 9-1 season in 2020, A&M has gained 20 video games blended over the life 3 seasons.
That rarity of luck resulted in the sudden firing of Jimbo Fisher with two usual season video games to advance within the 2023 season. Because of the large pledge extension Fisher were given nearest that 9-1 season, A&M paid the largest buyout in faculty soccer historical past to fireplace Fisher. Eliminating Fisher price over $75 million and he’ll get annual bills of over $7 million thru 2031.
A&M’s untouched teacher is former Aggies defensive coordinator Mike Elko. He comes again to A&M nearest a a success stint at Duke. The Blue Devils stepped forward by way of six video games in Elko’s first season to complete 9-4 in 2022 and went 7-5 in 2023 in spite of more than one accidents to establishing quarterback Riley Leonard.
