New details around Indiana football student section to create ‘electric atmosphere on gamedays’

New details have been shared around the Indiana football student section seating, a move to create an ‘electric atmosphere on gamedays’.

The entire student section will be moved to the north end of the stadium between sections 13 and 24. This move will be made starting during the upcoming season.

The goal is to enable ‘more IU students to be season closer’ to the field.

This is once again another move that shows the support and investment into Indiana football under the new regime of Curt Cignetti.

It’s been echoed numerous times this offseason, whether it is NIL related or the investment in new turf for IU’s indoor practice facility.

“We’ve got to do it on the field. When you’re successful on the field, then you start to change the way the public, the state, the Big Ten and the country think about Indiana football,” Cignetti said earlier this spring. “You start putting more people in the stands, selling out games, then it’s hard to get tickets.

“That’s what we’re going to do. You got to be good in football because that’s where the revenue comes from, man — football. There’s no reason we can’t be successful here. We’re going to be successful here. It’s one day at a time.”

Below is the full release from Indiana football.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University students can look forward to being surrounded by fellow classmates in an enhanced and relocated IU football student section at Memorial Stadium in 2024.

The entire IU football student section is being moved to the north end of the stadium between sections 13 and 24. This change will enable all IU students to sit together, and this contiguous student section will also enable more IU students to be seated closer to the Memorial Stadium field.

All seats in the student section will remain general admission, allowing IU students to get the best seats on a first-come, first-served basis.  Students can purchase season tickets for the 2024 season and charge them to their Bursar account HERE.

“The level of support that we have received from IU students in recent years has been tremendous, which is why we are able to make this exciting change,” said IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Scott Dolson. “This new student section promises to create an electric atmosphere on gamedays, particularly when visiting teams have the ball on that end of the field. In addition, by relocating our students to the north end, they’ll be the first to welcome our team onto the field moments before kickoff.

“We’re enjoyed record attendance numbers in recent years for IU football, and a big reason for the surge has been the turnout of our students. I think this change will make IU football gamedays that much better for those same students who are now excited for the coach Curt Cignetti era to get underway.”

IU football opens the 2024 season at home on Saturday, Aug. 31, against FIU. The Hoosiers will play eight home games in 2024, including marquee matchups against Nebraska (Oct. 19), Washington (Oct. 26), Michigan (Nov. 9), and Purdue (Nov. 30).

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