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Lessons learned at UNO will serve Alberts well with Huskers, say those Mavericks closest to him | Football



And 12 years after Alberts’ hiring, the Mavs have carved a sizable space in the Nebraska sports landscape.

There’s a hockey program that plays in the top conference in the country, one that UNO helped form. They have Baxter Arena; a renovated Caniglia Field and Sapp Fieldhouse.

And this year, brand new on-campus baseball and softball facilities that were paid for entirely through private donations. In his 12 years at UNO, Alberts helped secure more than $100 million of private and corporate funding for the athletic department. He’s seen the hockey program go to the Frozen Four, the baseball team make its first regional, the men’s soccer team win a game in the NCAA Tournament, and the men’s basketball program twice come within one victory of making the Big Dance.

One of Alberts’ first moves was convincing Dean Blais, one of the best collegiate hockey coaches in the country, to come to Omaha in 2009. Six years later, Blais had the Mavericks in the Frozen Four. 

A few months after that Frozen Four run, UNO would open the $88 million Baxter Arena, which houses the hockey, men’s and women’s basketball, and volleyball teams.

It was in those hectic months that Brian Logan, who at the time was UNO’s director of ticket operations, got a good example of how Alberts worked to push the people in his athletic department forward while at the same time moving the Mavericks ahead in the best way he thought possible.



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