Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts, shown here during his introductory press conference, touched on several topics Tuesday during a Lincoln Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Country Club of Lincoln.
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With the Nebraska football team’s season opener a little more than a week away, the Huskers and every other school in the Big Ten are awaiting final instructions from the league on how COVID-19 protocols will be handled this season.
That’s according to NU athletic director Trev Alberts, who spoke Tuesday at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce’s Face the Chamber event at the Country Club of Lincoln.
“I think there’s just a lot of nuance to it, right?” Alberts said. “So (for example) the Big Ten could announce that it’s an institutional decision and you have autonomy to handle your own policy as you want. What we don’t know is if some local health department said, ‘if you don’t have mandated this or that, then you can’t come into our county.”
That was an extreme example, Alberts said, and he doesn’t expect things to head in that direction. For now, the NU athletic department is abiding by the university’s COVID-19 policy and working with the Lancaster County Health Department. Alberts himself had to take a saliva test two days ago, he said.
Alberts also praised football coach Scott Frost and the rest of Nebraska’s coaches for increasing NU’s vaccination rate among its athletes.
“We’re in a really good position today,” Alberts said. “I couldn’t honestly say that a month ago. But today I feel really strong about where we are. We’re in good shape.”
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