While the Nebraska football team sits and waits to see where it’s going bowling while trying to reshape its staff and roster, a pair of former Husker coaches had a pretty good Saturday night.
Not long after Scott Frost was announced as the new UCF head coach (again), another former NU assistant got a new job. Tim Albin is now the head man at the University of Charlotte.
The former Nebraska football assistant has had a long and winding road to being considered an up-and-coming head coach. But after paying his dues, it looks like he is starting to climb the ladder, even if it’s just one rung at a time.
Former Nebraska football head coach gets a championship and a new job
Albin took over the Ohio Bobcats head coaching job in 2021 after his old boss, Frank Solich, retired. Before that promotion, he’d served as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach with the MAC school from 2005 to 2018 and added Associate Head Coach to his title in 2019.
On Saturday, he led the Bobcats to their first MAC title since 1968. Then he got the Charlotte job. And now he’ll attempt to do for the AAC program what he continued doing for Ohio after being handed a program on solid footing by yet another former Husker coach.
Tim Albin wasn’t a member of the Nebraska football coaching staff for all that long but he did serve one season as the Cornhuskers’ running back coach and passing game coordinator. Before his one at those positions alongside Solich in Lincoln, he spent two years as a grad assistant.