LAWRENCE | Scout-team players have their own meeting room.</p><p>Oh, that&#8217;s not a main attraction of the 80,000-square-foot Anderson Family Football Complex on the southwest side of Kansas&#8217; Memorial Stadium.</p><p>That could be the massive weight room with custom-built work stations, a locker room large enough to land a small aircraft or coach Mark Mangino&#8217;s corner office overlooking the field that would be the envy of any corporate CEO.</p><p>But the idea of giving practice players their own space speaks to perhaps the best part of the $31 million project.</p><p>&#8220;This is a very functional building,&#8221; said Brad Nachtigal, Kansas&#8217; associate athletic director for capital projects.</p><p>Kansas offered a sneak-peak tour Thursday of the facility, which should open for coaches next week and be fully operational by the time players arrive for practice.</p><p>Essentially it&#8217;s like your house, with the upstairs for the grownups and the downstairs for the kids. Except your house probably doesn&#8217;t have more than 50 television screens.</p><p>Coaches&#8217; offices, meeting rooms, an academic support/computer room and recruiting center consume the top floor.</p><p>Downstairs is the locker room, players&#8217; lounge, weight room and an entire side devoted to medical attention.</p><p>Injured on the field? A player can now be carted off directly to an X-ray room. Players can take a shower after practice and walk directly into a hydrotherapy area.</p><p>Kansas officials toured several facilities in college and the NFL for the complex designed by HNTB Architecture of Kansas City. Nachtigal said he looked at Auburn, Michigan, Nebraska and Kansas State among others.</p><p>But there&#8217;s no mistaking where you are inside the complex. From the Jayhawk logos emblazoned on the weights, to the mural of KU gridiron heroes in the recruiting center, Kansas football has a place to call home.</p><p>&#8220;It sends a message that KU is very serious about its football program,&#8221; associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said. &#8220;It sends it to our players, our alumni and to recruits.&#8221;</p><p>Recruits like Tyrone Sellers, a defensive end from McCook, Neb., who said earlier this week the Jayhawks won out over Iowa, Kansas State and Wyoming.</p><p>With the new facility, and coming off their best season ever with the Orange Bowl victory, the Jayhawks are taking steps to fulfilling a larger goal.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the way you become a successful program,&#8221; Marchiony said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to do.&#8221;