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Can flashy lockers translate to wins? In Austin, Texas coach Tom Herman is ready to find out

Approve or not, new Texas football coach Tom Herman managed to get plenty of eyeballs focused on his program.

All it took were a few tweets about his team's new lockers. Yes, those lockers. The $10,500 apiece lockers.

Even in the elite college football world, where a team's facilities are pretty much indistinguishable from high-end Vegas hotels, the Texas lockers qualified as uncharted territory. Factor in lighted doors and a 43-inch monitor in lieu of the standard name plate and it looks like something Tony Stark would have designed. It's also useful. The stainless-steel structure is designed to reduce bacteria, a problem in locker rooms.