The team was founded in 2017 as the Austin Elite, and competed in Major League Rugby.

[1] On September 19, 2019, after extensive polling at the end of the 2019 campaign, the team opted to rename itself the Herd.

[2] Prior to the 2020 season, Adam Gilchrist and Loyals LLC purchased the team and renamed it the Gilgronis, a reference to a yet-to-be-produced cocktail based on the Negroni, although the eponymous cocktail appears to just be a negroni with a different name.

[4] In October 2022, MLR announced that the Gilgronis and the LA Giltinis (both owned by Adam Gilchrist) had been expelled from the league for unspecified reasons.

The initial team logo features the stylized head of a Texas Longhorn bull with a Lone Star on its forehead.