Texas State held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new $37 million Football Performance Center at Bobcat Stadium, located at 1100 Aquarena Springs Drive, San Marcos, on May 22.
The Football Performance Center is a renovation to the existing complex and will include a new 8,000-square-foot weight room, a new players lounge, a new training room with hydrotherapy, individual position meeting rooms and a recruiting room. The conference rooms will also receive an upgrade with additional offices along with additional premium hospitality spaces to “enhance the game experience.”
“I can tell you from a student-athlete experience, it’s gonna make us more efficient; it’s going to improve our recruiting,” Texas State Athletic Director Don Coryell said. “This will be the very first building that we bring all of our recruits in to show off just how great Texas State is. I can tell you in the world of the transfer portal, it’s great to have a building like this because this is going to help us with retention; it’s going to allow us to keep more of our student-athletes here. This is a really important part of what we need to do to turn our football program around and win more games.”
Head Football Coach G.J. Kinne noted the program has hosted hundreds of recruits and their families within the first five months of him on the job, and the new end zone complex will help keep the program competitive with surrounding universities.
