The Univ. of Nebraska is “putting its money where its belief has been” in its decision to make AD Trev Alberts one of the highest-paid AD’s in college athletics , according to Sam McKewon of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. In the two years Alberts has been at Nebraska, he has “achieved quite a bit,” including: Staging a Volleyball Day event that not only broke a world record for attendance at a women’s sports event , but “made money and helped spawn a Big Ten Network documentary;” signing NU to a 15-year, $301M media rights deal with PlayFly Sports ; and “cutting administrative bloat and addressing malaise within an athletic department that had grown unwieldy under [former AD Bill] Moos’ sometimes-here, sometimes-on-the-ranch leadership.” McKewon wondered if Alberts could have “really left NU” for Ohio State, following outgoing Nebraska President Ted Carter. McKewon: “Probably not. But that’s not something Nebraska was willing to risk, either” ( OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, 11/14 ).
