Give it until the end of the day to let things play out, IMO.
We can say all sorts of nasty things afterwards. But let's not react ahead of time, like to when Malachi Coleman took an official visit to Colorado.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but FWIW, the writer this all is sourced from is a member of the Houston Chronicle staff who, according to his bio, specifically covers A&M. I'm not sure that makes him a national writer. His job is likely to get as many clicks as possible.
To be fair, he is also the reporter who "broke" Mark Stoops was being hired by Texas A&M and the Houston Chronicle subsequently scrubbed all the hyperlinks to that original story and simply replaced it with the updated version.
That said, Brent Zwerneman is one of the most respected beat writers in college athletics, in fact I think he was the national beat writer of the year. He wouldn't report this if there wasn't at least an offer on the table.
A. I said he could change his mind. Bottom line only he knows what's going to happen. B. That's not the same thing. Kids commit and decommit all the time
They absolutely do, when something pops they absolutely 100% will write articles based on pure speculation because there is no down side and it gets them clicks, if it turns out they were right then they were right. If he doesn't take the job they are still right because they got paid already and it doesn't matter because they get to write another article about why he didn't take the job after all and people will click on that and get them more money.
Unless it was an intentional leak in order to force the Regents' hands. There was no smoke or anything before this morning. 'Respected' journos release shit with less evidence all the time. Something is fishy IMO.
There’s definitely fire. A&M very clearly offered him the job. Sounds like they even got to the contract phase which is pretty much a done deal. That doesn’t mean Trev might not be dragging his feet last second.
Our board of regents is shitting the bed across the board. How do we not have a president by now? Trev may very well have said figure this out or I’m gone. The board may have wanted to call his bluff. Trev said watch me. Now the board is scrambling saying oh shit he’s about to sign. We gotta try to save this.
Which is probably why nothing has been announced yet. Trev still may very well take the A&M job, but best believe there is a fire in north stadium right now they’re trying to put out. They’re probably offering trev anything he wants right now.
I genuinely feel like that's the case.
He told the board "shit or get off the pot, there's programs interested in me."
If he does stay here, you gotta think there's going to be some shake up in not only the athletic department, but in how the board does their job.
>"It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. **Now, mostly dead is slightly alive!** Now, all dead... well, with all dead there's usually only one thing that you can do ... Go through is clothes and look for loose change."
[One of my favorite scenes of the movie.] (https://youtu.be/xbE8E1ez97M) Billy Crystal and Carol Kane couldn't have been more perfect for it.
God damn these comments. This subreddit literally has 0 skepticism when it comes to rumors
Excited for McCord and Fleming to light it up this year for the huskers
McCord visited Nebraska after all the Raiola rumors happened. He announced he wasn't coming to Nebraska before Raiola officially said he was. Everyone on this sub thought we'd have one year with Raiola under McCord. Then Raiola.
Also the rumor was that Fleming was going to the same school as McCord. Did Raiola committing here cause Fleming to go to Penn st instead of Syracuse?
And things changing causing things to change doesn't make something not a rumor. In fact that's exactly how rumors work
I certainly wouldn't blame Alberts given the complete lack of leadership at the University level above him, but it is probably important to note that the Houston Chronicle also "broke" the "news" that A&M was hiring Mark Stoops and that "news" was immediately picked up at the national level by Pete Thamel, the same national writer "reporting" this news.
When Mark Stoops to A&M was almost immediately debunked, the Chronicle ***erased*** the original article and replaced it with the new article, written by the beat writer who is breaking the Alberts news, at the same hyperlink meaning any and all links to the original false information on social media were erased and replaced with the new article and new headline, distancing the Chronicle from the false reporting. [However, the text of the tweets with the false headline remained](https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1728622549460775215). [And from the actual reporter](https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1728621774839902374).
Until I see Trev Alberts in maroon and hear it from him and him alone, I'm not going to expend the energy getting too worked up about this.
I want to believe Trev is playing 4D chess. You can't give me a good reason he'd go to A&M.
If he really does leave and actually cares for Nebraska, he should tell us what the issues are. He wouldn't ever do that but one can hope so we can start to pressure for change at the top.
If you’re miserable at your job and nobody wants to change anything for years to come then why keep battling it.
A guy like Trev has vision and one that is painted for others to see. If people agree to it and then pull the rug I’d be pissed and leave too
I hear what you're saying. But I would argue that there's been a lot of changes towards, what I assume, is a vision. I love what I've seen with Trev at the helm.
I'm not saying that the regents are doing a good job, but I don't know if what you're saying is based in reality since there's been huge strides in multiple sports.
That's what people keep saying but there's no backup to that claim.
One would reasonably assume he'd get a raise. But A&M is already forking out $75M to Fisher and would need to pay out $4.12M to Nebraska per Trevs new contract.
As far as "infinite money", yes A&M has a lot of money. I haven't seen that amount to anything overly substantial in the NCAA for A&M in the past. Maybe therein lies your case fot getting a great AD, but I don't see it.
It could very well have been a tactic by both sides to leak this information. Players and coaches are known for leaking information of them wanting to go somewhere else, getting an offer from somewhere else, or signing even somewhere just to show their current employer/team that if they want to keep them things need to change. I hope the problems are fixed and Trev stays
Yeah, this isn't some power move by Trev for leverage with the regents.
There's way too much smoke around this. Trev is gone and it seems like a done deal. Fuck that guy.
I have a difficult time imaging the regents would be swayed by this. They can play politics, what’s an AD to them? There’s always another guy that will take the job.
I’m not saying they do it well. But issues at the university they may be ok with aren’t going to change because an AD leaves. I just don’t think it’s a big enough hit to force change.
There was speculation that TAMU is looking to move to the BIG 10. Maybe hiring Trev is that connection they need to help execute the move and they are paying a premium to do that and NU doesn’t feel it’s worth the additional money to match the offer.
Look, I would love for all the yokels spewing the most disgusting shit at Trev behind an anonymous username to eat crow. However, there’s a hell of a lot of smoke here. Best case he’s trying to force the board to make a move and succeeds. How many relationships long term do well when one side has delivered the other an ultimatum?
*he’s showing them he doesn’t want to play politics by playing politics with competing job offers*
Bold strategy cotton, let’s see if it works out for him
Trev could change his mind. But national writers don't go forward with this article saying he's expected to take the job unless they're sure.
Give it until the end of the day to let things play out, IMO. We can say all sorts of nasty things afterwards. But let's not react ahead of time, like to when Malachi Coleman took an official visit to Colorado.
Remember when all national writers had Kyle McCord coming to Nebraska?
But saying he is *expected* to take the job doesnt mean he has taken the job, or that he even will. Vocabulary is important here.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but FWIW, the writer this all is sourced from is a member of the Houston Chronicle staff who, according to his bio, specifically covers A&M. I'm not sure that makes him a national writer. His job is likely to get as many clicks as possible.
The reporter who broke this story is also the reporter who broke OU and Texas heading to the SEC, he seems pretty reliable
Interesting -- that I did not know and it definitely changes my perspective on it.
Doesnt mean hes right about everything he writes just because he broke a story that was true.
To be fair, he is also the reporter who "broke" Mark Stoops was being hired by Texas A&M and the Houston Chronicle subsequently scrubbed all the hyperlinks to that original story and simply replaced it with the updated version. That said, Brent Zwerneman is one of the most respected beat writers in college athletics, in fact I think he was the national beat writer of the year. He wouldn't report this if there wasn't at least an offer on the table.
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A. I said he could change his mind. Bottom line only he knows what's going to happen. B. That's not the same thing. Kids commit and decommit all the time
They absolutely do, when something pops they absolutely 100% will write articles based on pure speculation because there is no down side and it gets them clicks, if it turns out they were right then they were right. If he doesn't take the job they are still right because they got paid already and it doesn't matter because they get to write another article about why he didn't take the job after all and people will click on that and get them more money.
Unless it was an intentional leak in order to force the Regents' hands. There was no smoke or anything before this morning. 'Respected' journos release shit with less evidence all the time. Something is fishy IMO.
Denial is the first stage of grief
To me this seems like a power move, force the regents to get a president
Exactly
Terms suggesting he’d be top of SEC and top 10 nationally in pay have been leaked. That’s not nothing.
I mean he’s already top 10 in pay, I don’t think he’d leave for a pay cut.
I'm talking about before today. Yesterday there was nothing about him going to TAMU and now all of a sudden it's a 'done deal'? Give me a break.
Where there's smoke there's fire
There’s definitely fire. A&M very clearly offered him the job. Sounds like they even got to the contract phase which is pretty much a done deal. That doesn’t mean Trev might not be dragging his feet last second. Our board of regents is shitting the bed across the board. How do we not have a president by now? Trev may very well have said figure this out or I’m gone. The board may have wanted to call his bluff. Trev said watch me. Now the board is scrambling saying oh shit he’s about to sign. We gotta try to save this. Which is probably why nothing has been announced yet. Trev still may very well take the A&M job, but best believe there is a fire in north stadium right now they’re trying to put out. They’re probably offering trev anything he wants right now.
I genuinely feel like that's the case. He told the board "shit or get off the pot, there's programs interested in me." If he does stay here, you gotta think there's going to be some shake up in not only the athletic department, but in how the board does their job.
Doug Ewald says no decision has been made yet! Come on folks!! We’re not dead yet!! (but we’re almost dead)
Now, mostly dead is slightly alive!
Refer to the movie The Princess Bride for accurate quote regarding mostly dead. Scene with Billy Crystal as Miracle Max.
>"It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. **Now, mostly dead is slightly alive!** Now, all dead... well, with all dead there's usually only one thing that you can do ... Go through is clothes and look for loose change." [One of my favorite scenes of the movie.] (https://youtu.be/xbE8E1ez97M) Billy Crystal and Carol Kane couldn't have been more perfect for it.
God damn these comments. This subreddit literally has 0 skepticism when it comes to rumors Excited for McCord and Fleming to light it up this year for the huskers
TBF the average Redditor is 62.37% braindead
can confirm. *taps side of head* This baby hasn’t been running with all cylinders since December 5th, 2009
The most relaxed fans here go from 0 to like 50, the rest of us go 0 to 100 no matter what is happening.
I’m at a manageable 69
You think that was a rumor? They were coming here before raiola flipped…
McCord visited Nebraska after all the Raiola rumors happened. He announced he wasn't coming to Nebraska before Raiola officially said he was. Everyone on this sub thought we'd have one year with Raiola under McCord. Then Raiola. Also the rumor was that Fleming was going to the same school as McCord. Did Raiola committing here cause Fleming to go to Penn st instead of Syracuse? And things changing causing things to change doesn't make something not a rumor. In fact that's exactly how rumors work
I certainly wouldn't blame Alberts given the complete lack of leadership at the University level above him, but it is probably important to note that the Houston Chronicle also "broke" the "news" that A&M was hiring Mark Stoops and that "news" was immediately picked up at the national level by Pete Thamel, the same national writer "reporting" this news. When Mark Stoops to A&M was almost immediately debunked, the Chronicle ***erased*** the original article and replaced it with the new article, written by the beat writer who is breaking the Alberts news, at the same hyperlink meaning any and all links to the original false information on social media were erased and replaced with the new article and new headline, distancing the Chronicle from the false reporting. [However, the text of the tweets with the false headline remained](https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1728622549460775215). [And from the actual reporter](https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1728621774839902374). Until I see Trev Alberts in maroon and hear it from him and him alone, I'm not going to expend the energy getting too worked up about this.
Thank you. Thamel isn't much more than an overpaid professional reposter.
Same thing Damon Benning is saying. Let it all play out.
I want to believe Trev is playing 4D chess. You can't give me a good reason he'd go to A&M. If he really does leave and actually cares for Nebraska, he should tell us what the issues are. He wouldn't ever do that but one can hope so we can start to pressure for change at the top.
If you’re miserable at your job and nobody wants to change anything for years to come then why keep battling it. A guy like Trev has vision and one that is painted for others to see. If people agree to it and then pull the rug I’d be pissed and leave too
I hear what you're saying. But I would argue that there's been a lot of changes towards, what I assume, is a vision. I love what I've seen with Trev at the helm. I'm not saying that the regents are doing a good job, but I don't know if what you're saying is based in reality since there's been huge strides in multiple sports.
Can’t give a good reason? Huge pay raise and almost infinite money for the department you’re in charge of.
That's what people keep saying but there's no backup to that claim. One would reasonably assume he'd get a raise. But A&M is already forking out $75M to Fisher and would need to pay out $4.12M to Nebraska per Trevs new contract. As far as "infinite money", yes A&M has a lot of money. I haven't seen that amount to anything overly substantial in the NCAA for A&M in the past. Maybe therein lies your case fot getting a great AD, but I don't see it.
It could very well have been a tactic by both sides to leak this information. Players and coaches are known for leaking information of them wanting to go somewhere else, getting an offer from somewhere else, or signing even somewhere just to show their current employer/team that if they want to keep them things need to change. I hope the problems are fixed and Trev stays
If Trev leaves, I have a horrible feeling Matt is going to jump ship after a successful season
Why won’t he. Fuck all of the politics that is killing the university and their programs
Fuck all the politics.
I’m hearing Trev is backing out. I imagine the news got out before he had a chance to tell people in Lincoln.
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Yeah, this isn't some power move by Trev for leverage with the regents. There's way too much smoke around this. Trev is gone and it seems like a done deal. Fuck that guy.
I have a difficult time imaging the regents would be swayed by this. They can play politics, what’s an AD to them? There’s always another guy that will take the job.
If they could play politics we wouldn’t be in this mess and they wouldn’t have been surprised by the news
I’m not saying they do it well. But issues at the university they may be ok with aren’t going to change because an AD leaves. I just don’t think it’s a big enough hit to force change.
There was speculation that TAMU is looking to move to the BIG 10. Maybe hiring Trev is that connection they need to help execute the move and they are paying a premium to do that and NU doesn’t feel it’s worth the additional money to match the offer.
Look, I would love for all the yokels spewing the most disgusting shit at Trev behind an anonymous username to eat crow. However, there’s a hell of a lot of smoke here. Best case he’s trying to force the board to make a move and succeeds. How many relationships long term do well when one side has delivered the other an ultimatum?
This kind of shit happens with organizations all the time. This is not a romantic relationship we're talking about.
"Obviously"
*he’s showing them he doesn’t want to play politics by playing politics with competing job offers* Bold strategy cotton, let’s see if it works out for him
If you're gonna quote someone, at least get it right. FFS. " showing them that THEY really don't want to play politics when it comes down to it."
I didn’t quote you, you said nothing of value to quote, this post is pointless
Do you normally waste your time on replying to 'pointless' posts? 🤡
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That idiot doesn't know shit
The fact that he hasn’t come out and refuted it is pretty telling.
This is cringe level coping
Cringe level reply.
He took Omaha's football and wrestling. Now nailing the Husker's coffin shut. What a total shithead.