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Article: Classic's future questioned
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
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- October 26, 2009
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Dramatic decreases in sponsorship and ticket revenue this year and the recent resignation of the Circle City Classic's new executive director have some questioning if the event can survive.
Classic leaders, desperate to return the event to its halcyon days - when game attendance hit 60,000 - are considering a bevy of bold changes, including moving the date, inviting an Indiana school or one from a power conference to play a historically black college, and including bands from more area high schools and colleges in the event's trademark parade and battle of the bands.
"We have a clean sheet of paper before us, and we need to be thinking about a lot of things," said Bill Mays, a member of the ...