Allen Says Football Only Weight Room Will Bring Focused Training for IU Football

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Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

The Indiana Athletic Department announced on Monday that there would a football only weight room coming in early 2024 in the North End Zone of Memorial Stadium. The Hoosiers football team had been sharing the 25,000 square foot facility with many of the other Hoosier athletic programs since in opened in 2009.

On Tuesday Indiana head football coach said that the advantage of having a football only training area is “to be able to have a concentrated area to eliminate distractions.”

Allen continued by saying, “I think that's where you want focused training. You want to be able to eliminate things. We have a phrase: ‘a distracted man is a defeated man'. Just trying to continue to enhance that part of it, to be able to brand it in a way that it's football specific. I think that's really important in recruiting, those kinds of things, just to show the importance of it.”

In most college sports if you are not getting blue chip recruits, a program has to do an excellent job of developing the talent they have. That is the goal of this project, to help IU football best develop the talent they do bring in.

“We want to do a tremendous job of developing our players from a nutrition perspective as well as physically, their strength and development, their speed, to be able to grow as a player in those areas.” Allen said.

The completion of the project is slated for early 2024 according to Monday’s press release. Allen said on Tuesday that “A lot of (the project is in the) beginning stages at this point, so that will come in the future.”

The Hoosiers have needed this kind of commitment to the football program as they try to build and sustain success on the field and the recruiting trail.

“I think the genesis of it was just the idea of wanting to be able to continue to build our program and the emphasis on the football side of things here at IU, to be able to continue to invest in that as a program, continue to make things better.” Allen said.

The Hoosiers are coming off a 4-8 (2-7) 2022 season and will open the 2023 season on September 2nd against Ohio State at Memorial Stadium.