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Steven M. Sipple: Alberts cares deeply for NU, and that's a great place to start conversation

Nebraska introduces Trev Alberts as its athletic director during a press conference Wednesday at Memorial Stadium.

Trev Alberts should feel no need to apologize.

He did it, anyway.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that was going to happen," he said of the emotions that he had to corral a handful of times Wednesday. "It wasn't planned."

"It was just surreal," he said of recent days leading to his introduction as Nebraska's 14th athletic director. "I haven't really slept in a week.