Source: Texas A&M to hire Nebraska AD Alberts

Texas A&M is expected to hire Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts for the same role, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.

Alberts, 53, a former All-American linebacker at Nebraska who won the Butkus Award in 1993, has led his alma mater’s athletic department since 2021. He will replace Ross Bjork, who left Texas A&M after five years to become athletic director at Ohio State. Former Texas A&M football coach R.C. Slocum, also the special assistant to the university president, had been serving as the school’s interim athletic director.

The Houston Chronicle first reported Texas A&M’s expected hire of Alberts.

After an injury-plagued NFL career ended in 1997, Alberts served as a broadcaster for ESPN and other media outlets, before becoming athletic director at Nebraska-Omaha in 2009. He returned to his alma mater in July 2021 and oversaw the hiring of football coach Matt Rhule and others.

His departure continues the administrative flux at Nebraska, which will be looking for its fifth athletic director since joining the Big Ten in 2011.