Texas Unveils Plan For New Football Training Facility

The Longhorns are expected to have a new practice complex completed by 2025 near the Moody Center.

After much speculation, Texas will finally upgrade its practice facility as the Longhorns jump over to the SEC.

The school recently announced that it would begin construction on a new $70 million complex at the end of the year. The location is slated to be just south of the program’s headquarters at Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center on the south end of Royal-Memorial Stadium and is expected to be completed no later than 2025. 

The Longhorns will leave the Big 12 following the 2023-24 calendar year and will join the Southeastern Conference, along with Oklahoma, on July 1, 2024. 

The facility will be closer to DKR, a move made by athletic director Chris Del Conte earlier this offseason. Currently, the Longhorns primarily practice at Denius Fields, which usually requires coaches and players to bus to and from practice on the daily. 

Texas Football has unveiled plans for its new $70 million practice facility.

The University will begin construction by the end of 2023 and be done by 2025 — shortly after the Longhorns join the SEC. pic.twitter.com/tnRtyHLdss

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The new complex will feature both an indoor and outdoor football practice field. The facility will replace the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at 1925 San Jacinto Blvd., which is expected to move to the current location of the McCombs School of Business across from Gregory Gymnasium near the heart of campus. 

School officials have yet to announce where the McCombs Schools of Business will move to in the future as of this time. 

The new complex isn't the only significant change coming to the football program. According to the Austin-American Statesman, the new facility will also mean a return to natural grass inside of DKR. 

Del Conte has been adamant on bringing back natural grass to DKR since replacing DeLoss Dodds in 2017. Royal-Memorial Stadium was a grass-based field from 1925 through 1968. After changing to artificial turf in 1969, the Longhorns returned to natural grass in 1996 before switching back to turf in 2009. 

“I can assure you we all want to go to grass, (Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian) wants to go to grass, but we have to be on field turf until that time,” Del Conte said in his town hall in February. 

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