The theme of South Carolina’s new football operations building, proudly showed off Monday by the university, is ease of movement. The architects, with Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp by their side more often than they probably expected, spent a lot of time thinking about how to remove physical barriers from day-to-day lives of USC’s players.
It’s why the weight room, training room and locker room are all connected, and why there is a walk-through shower room linking the locker room and training room. Players can come straight from practice and rinse off all their grass and dirt before sinking into the building’s giant cold tub.