Report: Crossroads Classic contract will not be renewed
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Or, at least, it
will be dead once the current contract expires at the end of this year, according to reporting from the Lafayette Journal & Courier’s Mike Carmin and IndyStar’s Zach Osterman. The annual four-team showcase featuring Indiana, Purdue, Butler and Notre Dame began in 2011 as the brainchild of former Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke and regularly drew decent holiday crowds to the state capital.
But from an IU perspective, the event seemed to run its course in recent years a sentiment to which Purdue AD Mike Bobinski pointed in explaining its demise to the Journal & Courier:
On my second or third day on the job for the Journal & Courier, a longtime reader emailed me. Welcome, he said. And he s been emailing me almost every other week since I arrived three months ago.
I love that.
Connecting with a community is paramount to a journalist s work. I thrive on it.
In fact, as I told West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis last month, had we not been in the midst of a pandemic when I became executive editor in November 2020, he would have already grown tired of me just popping in with bagels and coffee.
Maybe I would have dropped in on you. I ve already shared a cup – at a safe distance – with Raquel Lopez, producing artistic director at the Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette.