Marshall Associate Athletic Director Scott Morehouse, left, and project superintendent Jimmy Leach inspect the Thundering Herd’s football locker room inside the Shewey Athletics Building, which is adjacent to Edwards Stadium. The Shewey Building is undergoing a $1.185 million renovation. Included in that is the expansion of the Thundering Herd’s locker room by 800 square feet. The hole in the floor below Morehouse and Leach's feet shows where construction crews knocked out a wall to make more space.

Marshall Associate Athletic Director Scott Morehouse, left, and project superintendent Jimmy Leach look at the progress that has been made in the Thundering Herd's soon-to-be 130-seat video room, where the coaches and players will meet to watch film together in a theater-style setting.

Laborer Randy Russell, left, and carpenter Lee Barbour work on railing inside the 130-seat video room, where Marshall football coaches and players will meet to watch game film together in theater-style seats and on state-of-the-art plasma screens.

Project superintendent Jimmy Leach of E.P. Leach and Sons Incorporated said the $1.185 million renovation of Marshall's football facilities on the ground level of the Shewey Athletics Building is on schedule and should be completed by Aug. 1.