A good coach and top-notch recruiting are the keys to winning in college football. The Texas Longhorns are hoping Steve Sarkisian is the answer to the former, but their locker room is already helping with the latter.
The University of Texas spent $10 million on renovations to its athletic center and $7 million on the football locker room alone. New custom-designed lockers cost about $8,700.
The locker room and lockers are visible below.
There is a sign on the back wall that says the University of Texas can help players get to the NFL.
You pull on the Longhorns logo to enter the locker room.
The logo of the team is on the floor. There is a glowing Bevo on the ceiling. Can not step on that.
There are signs with the program's core values, which include treating women with respect.
Another sign shows the next opponent.
Another has the Pillars of the Program.
A giant videoboard on the wall can show games.
The bathroom looks like a fancy hotel.
Maybe a high-end gym.
The shower is clean.
The lockers are the star of the show, they are unlike anything seen before in a locker room.
We have the best tools in the country. Some of the best schools in the nation are recruiting the kids in the lockers. No matter where you go, a scholarship is a scholarship. Tom Herman was the former Texas coach.
There are pocket doors that can be hidden.
Tom Herman wanted the locker to glow.
The lockers have an anti-bacterial feature that reduces the stink.
The most expensive locker has its own television on top.
The player's helmet, pads, and gloves are held in the tray and can be easily accessed.
The Longhorns logo is cut into the glove hooks.
There is a cooling fan at the top of the Battle gear rack to help dry the helmets.
Depending on how sweaty and smelly a player is or how much equipment they have in the locker, the ventilation system behind the pads and helmet can be adjusted.
The lockers are made by Longhorn Lockers, a company that has also made lockers for other top programs.
Since they had just won the national championship, the lockers were designed to look like thrones.
The Texas locker has a pin-pad safe.
There is a safe with an outlet.
They probably thought of everything, that's what the drawers prove.
The base of the locker has more air in it. It will probably be the least stinky locker room in the world.
The foot locker has even more air.
How did the players react when they saw their locker room? At the 44-second mark of the video, they were pretty pumped up.
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