Are the Texas Longhorns about to see the football facilities around campus get a facelift?

Evidently so.

Men's athletic director Steve Patterson told SiriusXM College Sports Nation on Friday that the school plans on spending around $750 million over the next six to eight years on facilities, including the completion of a new volleyball practice facility, a new tennis center, the eventual construction of a new basketball arena and a south end zone project at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium that includes upgrades to the Moncrief Complex.

“We're going to do some things here,” head coach Charlie Strong said during his interview on SiriusXM's Camp Tour stop in Austin. “We're going to get it done here rather soon and it's going to be really nice what we do.”

No talk was made about what specifically will be done, but Patterson noted that the Moncrief Complex is due for some improvement. Virtually every other Big 12 school, most notably Baylor and TCU in recent years as well as Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference, has made facilities upgrades in recent years that have left Texas' looking out of date in some spots.

While the Longhorns could use a boost in the cosmetic look of their facilities, Strong wants to make sure that his program doesn't fall into the trap of being all hat and no cattle.

“I'll tell a kid, 'Hey, we have a nice training room but at night you're not sleeping in that training room,'” Strong said. “You're going to go off to your dorm room or go wherever you go.

“If a young man is coming here for a facility he's coming here for the wrong reason,” he added. “I want him to come here because he loves the University of Texas. I want him to come here because he wants to get an education, a great degree from a great university and that he wants to play for this great university. That's what it's all about.”

In the midst of the college football arms race to build the newest, most up-to-date facilities available, Strong wants to make sure coaches and administrators remember that they're all in the business of developing people first and foremost.

“The one thing we can't do as college coaches is devalue education,” Strong said. “That's what you're getting afraid of because everybody's building bigger, bigger, bigger, but still at the end of the day these young men have to graduate too. You don't always want to make it about facilities. But that's what it's really coming to.”