New turf installed at Indiana football indoor practice facility highlights admin support suggested by Curt Cignetti

The investment made in the Indiana football program has been evident since it hired Curt Cignetti and the most recent development echoes that sentiment.

Earlier this spring, the indoor practice facility at Mellencamp Pavilion went through a makeover. On Friday, the first pictures circulated with what appears to be the finished product.

This is in addition to the continues additions made to the weight room and overall football facilities in Bloomington.

This isn’t something new, however. And, Curt Cignetti made it known when he took the job that the administration was going to be putting more time, effort and money into the Indiana football program.

“I’ll tell you what, we got some momentum going, and we have a lot of people to buy in,” Cignetti said back in the winter. “Look, the administration here, they want football to win. So I probably have some things that the other coaches didn’t, and they got a guy that knows what they’re doing. So it’s really pretty simple.”

According to a report from IndyStar.com back in February, Indiana reported $144.7 million in total operating revenue in 2023. It was broken down by the following: $47.8 million from media rights, $24.5 million in ticket sales and $19.6 million in donor contribution.

Indiana football is coming off of a 3-9 season in 2023 and was the only team in the Big Ten with just one league win. In the past three years, Indiana is just 9-27.

With the transfer portal, NIL movement, additions of four new schools to the Big Ten and the dissolution of divisions, Indiana needed to make sure it wasn’t going to fall even further behind the rest of the league.

Not only has the investment from the administration been a welcomed sight, the NIL pool continues to be ‘a lot more’ than promised.

And, all of this continues to show the dedication to making positive movement for Indiana football.

“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.”

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