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Husker Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst has been fired, University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor Ronnie Green announced Thursday.
The decision comes after a 1-2 start for the football team and a loss at home Saturday to Northern Illinois. Eichorst, who was hired in October 2012, has about $1.7 million remaining on his contract that runs through June 2019.
Here are five people Lee Barfknecht thinks may be under consideration to be Nebraska's next athletic director:
Trev Alberts
Trev Alberts has been the athletic director at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 2009. He starred as a defensive end at Nebraska in the early 1990s. Following his senior season in 1993, he was awarded the Dick Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Trophy as the top college linebacker. He also was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, after recording 15 quarterback sacks, 21 tackles for loss and 38 quarterback hurries. He played professionally for three years with the Indianapolis Colts after being the fifth overall pick in the 1994 NFL Draft. The former television commentator was selected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart is the Big 12 assistant commissioner for football and student services. He joined the Big 12 Conference staff after spending seven years at the University of Missouri, where he served as associate director of athletics for administration. Stewart is a former All-American linebacker at Nebraska in 1994. The Chicago native also was named Big Eight Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 1994.
Chris Del Conte
Chris Del Conte was appointed Texas Christian University's director of intercollegiate athletics in October of 2009. Under Del Conte, five TCU head coaches (Gary Patterson, football; Jim Schlossnagle, baseball; Karen Monez, rifle; David Roditi, men's tennis; Haley Schoolfield, equestrian) have been named National Coach of the Year. Ten sports — baseball, women's basketball, football, women's golf, rifle, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, women's indoor and outdoor track and field — have won conference titles under Del Conte, who has seen 17 of 21 sports represented in NCAA postseason play.
Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips became Northwestern's director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation in 2008. He is one of 10 children from a middle-class Chicago family. He was elected as the inaugural chairman of the NCAA Division I Council in February 2015. During a two-and-a-half year term, he served as the first-ever sitting athletic director on the NCAA Board of Directors and Board of Governors. In March 2017, he was appointed to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Selection Committee, Northwestern's first representative in 50 years. He also was appointed to the Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors in early June.
Kevin White
Kevin White is the athletic director at Duke University. He has held this position since May 30, 2008. He held similar positions at Notre Dame, Arizona State, Tulane, the University of Maine and Loras College. As a coach, White coached track and field at Southeast Missouri State from 1981-1982 and was a cross country assistant at Central Michigan from 1976-1980. Notre Dame football struggled during White's tenure. Notre Dame football teams have started 0–3 only two times in the school's history, both under White. Those came in 2001, the season after White negotiated an extension of coach Bob Davie's contract and 2007, two seasons after White gave coach Charlie Weis a 10-year contract extension. White also was responsible for the hiring of George O'Leary, who was fired a week later after falsifying his resume, and Tyrone Willingham, who started 8-0 but finished 13-15, with eight of those losses coming by 22 points or more, more than any coach in school history.
