Rusty Wright has measured the distance from his team’s on-campus locker room to where the players have to shower.
“100 yards,” the veteran coach said.
Same length as a football field.
It’s been a problem for a long time, too. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football players — usually wrapped in towels — have been tasked with the long walk, which takes them past an athletic department office where news conferences routinely take place.
An updated facility for UTC athletics has been the talk of the university for quite some time now, certainly for years and maybe even decades. With nothing to show for so long, though, it’s no surprise some responded with skepticism, a feeling of “seeing is believing.”