Trev Alberts, athletics director

Inky_Wretch · Apr 29, 2009

Umm, what are you doing Nebraska-Omaha?

http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3925&u_sid=10621329

GB-Hack · Apr 29, 2009

Getting themselves some publicity, perchance?

slappy4428 · Apr 29, 2009

Goodbye hockey, hello footsball

93Devil · Apr 29, 2009

Will Mel Kiper be welcome?

BYH · Apr 29, 2009

"That's why Nebraska-Omaha is playing in Division II every year, not battling for the Big XII championship," Mel Kiper Jr said.

Edit: damnit Devil!

93Devil · Apr 29, 2009

BYH said:

"That's why Nebraska-Omaha is playing in Division II every year, not battling for the Big XII championship," Mel Kiper Jr said.

Edit: damnit Devil!
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Yeah, but you remembered the line.

Who is Mel Kiper anyway?

Beaker · Apr 29, 2009

Excuse my ignorance, but is the Kiper stuff the reason Alberts was let go from ESPN?

BYH · Apr 29, 2009

I must admit: I had to look it up and confirm Kiper was referring to Trev Alberts.

Beaker: No, Alberts apparently didn't show for work one day in a dispute over air time. ESPN called his bluff. See ya!

93Devil · Apr 29, 2009

I am searching for a youtube clip, Beaker, but I cannot find one.

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ESPN's coverage of the 1994 NFL draft was less than eight and a half minutes in, when Kiper said, "The Colts have to come out of this draft with a quarterback." Tennessee's Heath Shuler and Fresno State's Trent Dilfer were regarded as sure-fire future NFL stars, and Indianapolis' starter was Jim Harbaugh. The Colts wound up with two of the first five picks. With No. 2, they chose running back Marshall Faulk from San Diego State. With the fifth pick -- Shuler having gone to the Washington Redskins with the third pick -- the Colts were expected to take Dilfer. Instead, they chose Trev Alberts, a linebacker from Nebraska. Kiper's reaction to this was "To pass up a Trent Dilfer, when all you have is Jim Harbaugh -- give me a break. That's why the Colts are picking second every year in the draft, not battling for the Super Bowl like other clubs in the National Football League." [2]

Less than 10 minutes later, at a location away from the draft site, ESPN's Chris Mortensen was interviewing Colts general manager Bill Tobin. Mortensen asked a question about the Colts' bypassing a quarterback with their top-five choices. Mortensen didn't mention Kiper in his question to Tobin. Tobin's 55-second response was "We got a guy up here ... and who in the hell is Mel Kiper, anyway? I mean, here's a guy who criticizes everybody, whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you should take, to who you shouldn't take. He tells us about your team. He tells us about the Rams. Mel Kiper is a tortoise. He tells us about Tampa and everything else. In my knowledge of him, he's never even put on a jockstrap, he's never been a player, he's never been a coach, he's never been a scout, he's never been an administrator, and all of a sudden, he's an expert. He's in our paper two days ago, telling us who we have to take. We don't have to take anybody that Mel Kiper says we have to take. Mel Kiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing than my neighbor, and my neighbor's a postman and he doesn't even have season tickets to the NFL." [3]

Kiper responded to Tobin with a biting tirade that drew huge cheers from the fans in the gallery and wry smiles from Chris Berman and the other ESPN commentators "I'm secure in my position. Obviously, Bill Tobin's not very secure in his position. ... You cannot go with Jim Harbaugh and pass up Trent Dilfer. That's why the Colts are the laughingstock of the league year in and year out." [4]
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Beaker · Apr 29, 2009

BYH said:

I must admit: I had to look it up and confirm Kiper was referring to Trev Alberts.

Beaker: No, Alberts apparently didn't show for work one day in a dispute over air time. ESPN called his bluff. See ya!
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Thanks, that does sound vaguely familiar.

BYH · Apr 29, 2009

93Devil said:

I am searching for a youtube clip, Beaker, but I cannot find one.

From wiki...

ESPN's coverage of the 1994 NFL draft was less than eight and a half minutes in, when Kiper said, "The Colts have to come out of this draft with a quarterback." Tennessee's Heath Shuler and Fresno State's Trent Dilfer were regarded as sure-fire future NFL stars, and Indianapolis' starter was Jim Harbaugh. The Colts wound up with two of the first five picks. With No. 2, they chose running back Marshall Faulk from San Diego State. With the fifth pick -- Shuler having gone to the Washington Redskins with the third pick -- the Colts were expected to take Dilfer. Instead, they chose Trev Alberts, a linebacker from Nebraska. Kiper's reaction to this was "To pass up a Trent Dilfer, when all you have is Jim Harbaugh -- give me a break. That's why the Colts are picking second every year in the draft, not battling for the Super Bowl like other clubs in the National Football League." [2]

Less than 10 minutes later, at a location away from the draft site, ESPN's Chris Mortensen was interviewing Colts general manager Bill Tobin. Mortensen asked a question about the Colts' bypassing a quarterback with their top-five choices. Mortensen didn't mention Kiper in his question to Tobin. Tobin's 55-second response was "We got a guy up here ... and who in the hell is Mel Kiper, anyway? I mean, here's a guy who criticizes everybody, whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you should take, to who you shouldn't take. He tells us about your team. He tells us about the Rams. Mel Kiper is a tortoise. He tells us about Tampa and everything else. In my knowledge of him, he's never even put on a jockstrap, he's never been a player, he's never been a coach, he's never been a scout, he's never been an administrator, and all of a sudden, he's an expert. He's in our paper two days ago, telling us who we have to take. We don't have to take anybody that Mel Kiper says we have to take. Mel Kiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing than my neighbor, and my neighbor's a postman and he doesn't even have season tickets to the NFL." [3]

Kiper responded to Tobin with a biting tirade that drew huge cheers from the fans in the gallery and wry smiles from Chris Berman and the other ESPN commentators "I'm secure in my position. Obviously, Bill Tobin's not very secure in his position. ... You cannot go with Jim Harbaugh and pass up Trent Dilfer. That's why the Colts are the laughingstock of the league year in and year out." [4]
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That is awesome. That always makes me laugh.

Little-known fact: The Colts DID try to replace Harbaugh with Dilfer, albeit by one degree of separation. They acquired Craig Erickson--the guy Dilfer was drafted to replace in Tampa--from the Bucs and named him the starter over Harbaugh in 1995. Of course, Erickson lasted one or two starts that year and the Colts came within a cradled football of making the Super Bowl (as 93Devil may recall) as Harbaugh had the year of his life.

And Dilfer had a journeyman career and is now known as the worst QB to ever win the Super Bowl. And now he works for ESPN!!! Mmmmmmmmm, that's good irony!!

93Devil · Apr 29, 2009

There were a handful of plays that could have changed the outcome of that game. Steelers were lucky to win that one.

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