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Nebraska Hires Trev Alberts as Athletic Director

The Hall of Fame linebacker brings experience to the post vacated by Bill Moos.

Joe Hudson

Nebraska Hires Trev Alberts as Athletic Director
Nebraska Hires Trev Alberts as Athletic Director /

Trev Alberts is returning to Lincoln as Nebraska's athletic director.

The university introduced the former Husker All-America linebacker at a press conference Wednesday morning. View it below.

Alberts won the Butkus Award in 1993 as the nation's top linebacker. In 2015, entered the College Football Hall of Fame.

He was a unanimous first-team All-American in his senior season and was named the Big Eight Defensive Player of the Year and Male Athlete of the Year. Off the field, he was a first-team Academic All-American and received the NCAA Today Top Six Award -- the NCAA's highest honor -- and multiple postgraduate scholarships.

Alberts was selected with the fifth pick in the 1994 NFL draft by the Indianapolis Colts and spent three seasons with the franchise. After his playing career, Alberts was a college football analyst for ESPN and CBS Sports Network. In 2009, he was named director of athletics at University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he led the school's transition to Division I status. That included the controversial elimination of UNO's football and wrestling programs.

Nebraska's A.D. post opened up with the departure of Bill Moos at the end of June.

Check out the reactions to Wednesday's hire on the HuskerMax forums. Also, take Dave Feit's quiz to test your knowledge of the Big Ten's athletic directors

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    Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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