Trev Alberts talks at his introductory news conference July 14 at Memorial Stadium.
The Nebraska football team is 90% vaccinated, NU athletic director Trev Alberts said Wednesday night.
“That’s tremendous news. And I give Coach (Scott Frost) an awful lot of credit,” Alberts said on the Sports Nightly radio program. “Once we sorted through the realities of what the Big Ten protocols were going to look like in terms of forfeiture, and it became very clear that this was going to have a significant impact, our coaching staff worked very hard with UNMC.
“We brought in all kinds of speakers — most of it was about education.”
Alberts said he was on a conference call earlier Wednesday in which all of the Big Ten’s 14 teams disclosed their vaccination rates.
“I will tell you that the University of Nebraska is right there with the top schools in terms of vaccination rates across the board,” Alberts said. “That’s our football program and that really reflects the rest of our Athletic Department as well.”
Nebraska’s Athletic Department does not and will not have a vaccine mandate, Alberts said. Some NU student-athletes will not get vaccinated.
“That’s their personal choice, and I respect that,” Alberts said.
But overall, the Huskers have made progress across the board in bringing vaccination rates up. In his first couple of days on the job, Alberts said, Nebraska was “not in a good place” on vaccination rates.
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