Something tells me Trev Alberts' life is about to get a whole lot tougher. ESPN's Outside the...

Something tells me Trev Alberts' life is about to get a whole lot tougher.

ESPN's Outside the Lines is scheduled to air a piece this Sunday on UNO's elimination of the football and wrestling programs. They claim their investigation shows financial discrepancies between what was reported to the NCAA and what was released to the public.

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Something tells me that UNO wrestlers are going to be disappointed with this

With all the media attention this got in Omaha and the involvement of so many Fortune 500 CEO’s, I doubt we’ll learn anything new other than the wrestlers sad story…

And this continuing vendetta against Alberts is really costing them any goodwill they had earned…

by Husker Mike on May 7, 2011 9:03 AM CDT reply actions

Even less than I expected...

Mostly the disappointment the wrestlers felt in the way it went down (absolutely true), and then some vague questions about the finances, but nothing definitive that could call into question the decision. Oh, and dropping David Sokol’s allegation that the decision came from Lincoln, and then not identifying Sokol by name, due to his other issues.

If all the UNO wrestlers were after was expressing their disappointment with UNO for how it came down, and getting to say it on national television, they got it. But if they wanted to discredit what happened, well, this came up well short.

by Husker Mike on May 8, 2011 11:32 AM CDT up reply actions

Outside the Lines..

…was a joke. Accused Trev & Christensen of misrepresenting figures & then proceeded to horribly skew the figures themselves. The one that jumped out was claiming that football only lost around $50k last year not 1.7 mil when student fees were figured in.

Ummm, guys? When you have to use over $1 mil in student fees to help a sports program break even, IT’S LOSING MONEY HAND OVER FIST.

Some may think it was some sort of retribution against Trev with his somewhat acrimonious parting, but I think it’s simpler than that. Investigative reporters in any media genre do NOT like to be no commented. Big mistake on Trev & John’s part.

Implying that UNL was somehow threatened by UNO football going D1 & pressuring Trev to drop it was beyond ludicrous. In their desperation to make UNO relevant to a national audience, they looked for a hook to the big bad Huskers & this was the best they could come with.

ESPN went a little tabloid TV on this one.

by Andy Ketterson on May 10, 2011 9:02 AM CDT reply actions