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:
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The visual was striking, its message crystal clear: The biggest state institution in Ohio, and almost certainly the most politically powerful of the Big Ten’s 14 schools, was throwing its weight behind the push for NIL legislation in its state.
Antani’s announcement moved Ohio into a group of 40 states somewhere between considering and having passed NIL legislation. Ohio was also the ninth of 11 states in the Big Ten footprint to join that list.
The only remaining outsiders? Wisconsin is one.
The other is Indiana, where schools are gearing up for the arrival of NIL into college athletics while there appears to be no serious appetite for state-level legislation governing it.