Nebraska Just Built a $165 Million Training Complex and It Has an Adjustable Hill
A tour of Nebraska football's Osborne Legacy Complex — the $165 million facility with custom Sorinex racks, Elite Form velocity tracking, and a hill that changes grade.
College football facilities have become their own recruiting arms race, and Nebraska just made a serious statement.
Sports Dissected got inside the Osborne Legacy Complex — Nebraska's $165 million football training center — and the walkthrough reveals a level of investment in athlete performance that goes well beyond a nice weight room.
When you're recruiting against Alabama, Ohio State, and Georgia, your building has to do some of the talking for you.
The Indoor Training Space
In the video, Strength Coach Corey walks through the indoor facility, which functions as the starting point for every Nebraska training session. The space is built for maximum coaching visibility — open concept, clear sight lines from every angle, no barriers between coaches and athletes.
What stands out immediately is the adjustable hill. Nebraska is in one of the flattest terrains in the country, so they built one. It goes up to 15% grade and is used for acceleration-based work — the kind of sprint training that programs in the mountains get for free. You don't see this in many facilities.
The space also houses:
- Peloton bikes, ski ergs, and Kaiser bikes in a dedicated cardio studio
- Plyometric stairs at the opposite end from the hill
- A speed bag and heavy bag area at the top of those stairs
- Med balls and throw zones throughout
The Weight Room: Custom Everything
The centerpiece weight room is built with fully custom Sorinex racks — not just branded stock equipment. Coach Corey explains the collaboration was genuinely custom-built to Nebraska's exact training specifications, with every implement designed to support their programming.
The other major tech investment is Elite Form velocity-based training technology. What makes this particularly impressive is that Elite Form is headquartered in Lincoln — so Nebraska gets direct, close-proximity troubleshooting and customization that other programs paying the same price can't access. Coach Corey mentions being able to iterate with their team on tracking camera systems for specialty bars in real time.
The Recovery and Nutrition Layer
The facility is intentionally designed so that training, recovery, and nutrition are all within steps of each other. There's a snack and nutrition station — the "Cattle Club nutrition area" — directly adjacent to the weight room.
The recovery coordinator's job is collecting fatigue and readiness data from practices and training sessions, then using that to inform how athletes come into each workout. It's a full-loop data system: train, measure, recover, repeat.
Why Facilities Matter (And When They Don't)
Here's my take: equipment at this level stops being about the equipment and starts being about the signal.
No recruit is choosing Nebraska over Georgia because of the adjustable hill. But a recruit is choosing Nebraska over a program with a mediocre facility, all else equal. Facilities tell recruits "we take this as seriously as you do." The real differentiator is the staff — Coach Corey's approach to open-concept coaching, the Elite Form partnership, the integrated recovery system. That's what turns a building into a competitive advantage.
The Bottom Line
Nick Saban used to say recruiting is the lifeblood of a program. In 2026, your facility is part of your recruiting pitch. Nebraska's $165 million investment says they're not content being a middling Big Ten program. Whether it translates to wins is a different conversation — but the infrastructure to compete at the highest level is clearly there.