The Hall Monitors Bio

Mission of The Hall Monitors: Our goal is to organize the student season ticket holders for the 2007-2008 Indiana University men's basketball season to unify in hopes of creating a self-governed student section.

The Hall Monitors is the initiative to better the seating fiasco for Indiana University students who have been allotted more seats for home basketball games than any other Big Ten school, but have never been collectively represented nor organized. During our inaugural season, we will provide cheer sheets for students and coordinate with IU athletic administrators to create the best atmosphere in college basketball. We strive to endow the student body with more power by becoming united and coordinated through this movement which will forever shake the walls of Assembly Hall...

As The Hall Monitors grow stronger throughout the IU campus, we look to you, the diehard member of Hoosier Nation, to contribute your creativity and efforts to make Assembly Hall the home of the best student section in college basketball. With your contributions we look to make the several improvements during the 2007-2008 Indiana men's basketball season and beyond into forthcoming seasons.

 

          “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…  
                   Make big plans, aim high in hope and work”                      

Expert Reviews

"In an era of tricked-up sound systems, luxury boxes and excessive audiovisual bling, this is still an old-school gym. You walk in and immediately smell the popcorn. And when the Hoosiers play well, it's really loud."-Pat Forde, ESPN

"It is loud and passionate like Indiana fans should be.  The fans in the front row bleachers are right up on the court. There is something special about it that I can’t put my finger on.  Maybe it is the ghost of Bobby Knight.  The upper decks seem to go straight up in the air.  The chill factor is good."-Bill Kinter, CollegeHoops.net

 

"When you see the red and white on the floor at Assembly Hall, and then look up in the stands that seem to go straight up on either side, you feel like you are in a special place. The fight songs and the candy-stripe warm-up pants are evocative of tradition and winning. McCracken and Knight won championships on that floor, and for two straight years in the '70s, nobody but the Hoosiers could even sniff a victory. Assembly Hall rocks when the Hoosiers roll, and the atmosphere is pure college basketball."-Jay Bilas, ESPN

"I remember 30 something years ago, and it seems as though the place hasn't changed. When Indiana went ahead, it was about as loud as any place outside of Cameron [Indoor Arena] that I have been in." -Mike Kryzyzewski, Duke Coach

 “Crowds Help Win Games” -Terry Hoeppner

Tradition

You can smell it as soon as you step foot into Assembly Hall and see the history of Indiana Basketball unfold when standing in front of the wood court overshadowed by cream and crimson stripes. Coach Kelvin Sampson rightfully referred to it as the "Mecca of Basketball" upon his inauguration as head coach. While the team has earned its fair share of recognition in record books to establish a tradition which will not soon die...students find themselves at a crossroad. Individually we wish to contribute to the team by being loyal fans but collectively there is no institution or system which enables us to come together in one voice.  

"Five fingers alone can only deliver an insignificant slap...but when those fingers come together to become a fist, it will always deliver a devastating blow."
                                                                                              -John Wooden, Hoosier native

This philosophy referring to the magnitude of the collective group will become the ideal model of the Indiana student section will become. Besides the singing the fight songs, singing along with the band, a "DE-FENSE" chant every now and then, the ritual call for the elderly to actually stand up during a free throw to remind them that they are at a basketball game. Oh yea...and quite possibly the greatest TV timeout in college basketball history with the ultimate collaborate of William Tell, flags bombarding the opposing team, and "Indiana, Our Indiana" to cap things off. But not else much sets us apart from the student section at "Insert Generic College Here". In order for the self-governed student section to be successful, three objectives must be met: Innovation, Coordination, and Persistence.