Last week, Texas coach Tom Herman gave us the gif that will keep on giving whenever anything goes wrong during his tenure with the Longhorns.
Well thank you for gifting us this GIF for all of Tom Herman's tenure. https://t.co/K0nBBdAgFk pic.twitter.com/kR4opUn3ud
— Ted Harrison (@tedvid) April 7, 2017
Herman was putting in a hard day's work because Texas is renovating its locker room. The renovations are absolutely ridiculous in how cool they look, if this locker is any indication. Here’s what one will look like when renovations are done, topped with a TV that’s as big or bigger than the one you probably have in your home.
New lockers are unfreakingbelievable. Each locker has 43" monitor instead of name plate. #ThisisTexas #revolution18 pic.twitter.com/qeaI1TU8to
— Bob Shipley (@RobertShipley2) April 14, 2017
The lockers reportedly cost $10,500 each, and the locker room last received improvements in 2011. This new wave is part of a broader expansion and improvement of facilities in Austin. It is one of college sports’ great ironies that Texas of all places has fallen behind a bit in college football’s facilities arms race. The Horns are the nation’s richest athletic program.
But if anyone can get them back on track, it’s Herman, whose zeal for improvement at Houston led him to replace the floors himself at the Cougars’ facility. And it’s motivation behind what he’s doing in Austin.
Tom Herman on the lockers: "It says from a facilities standpoint there will be no reason for a recruit to want to go somewhere else." #Texas https://t.co/Hc12kTBW3C
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) April 15, 2017