Indiana announced on Monday morning their plan to move the student section for football games entirely to the north end zone.
The move had some fans frustrated, mainly season ticket holders in the north end zone who were notified by IU of the move, and their relocation, just a few months before the 2024 season.
IU Senior Associate Athletic Director Jeremy Gray, who is also the PA voice at men’s and women’s basketball games, posted a thread on X describing more background on the change.
And according to Gray, the student section change is just one of many IU football gameday changes to be announced in the weeks to come.
Here’s what Gray had to say:
Tickets and ticket allocation are not my thing here, but we are doing dozens of things, both large and small to try to get it right for football in a variety of areas,” Gray said. “My family tickets have been displaced. The seats are below my office, my kids loved catching FGs
“We LOVED our seats.
“The timing of this is bad and inconvenient. We know it. But it’s never the wrong time to do the right thing. Making 57 of 58 necessary changes wasn’t how we want to start the Cig era here. Does the ticket office wish they’d have done this in Feb? Yes!
“But we didn’t. And it is a bummer for those we sat by for years.
“But our student section has a been a disjointed mess for years. We were too nice to visiting team’s fans. So uniting the student section and giving Maryland fans the nosebleeds was the right thing to do.
“This will put the students around the band and DJ. It will be more imposing. It will be easier to manage. We need to make our place difficult as hell for other teams. The various areas of the Department will be making a series of game day announcements in the coming months.
“After several years away, I was put in charge of some of it this March. Some of it will be good. Some might not work. But it will be different. The team will run out of an actual tunnel for instance. The walk will be a straight line from the top of the SSAH stairs, etc.
“But everything is done to try to win now. And we’ve been given tremendous latitude to do it.
“This is a bummer for some (including my wife and kids), but have to get it right, right away.
“Appreciate everyone’s patience. Let’s win some damned games.”
Indiana hosts eight home games in 2024. They open the 2024 season on Aug. 31 in Bloomington against Florida International.
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