>        - Since 1957, sold-out crowds have jammed the University of Illinois
>Ice Arena for Fighting Illini hockey games.  Last season, record crowds
>stuffed the 2,100-seat Arena for every home game.  The Illini outdraw most
>N.C.A.A. Division III schools as well as many Division I teams every
>year.
 
>        - The Fighting Illini hockey team is the third largest spectator
>sport on campus - behind football and men's basketball.  The team receives
>daily newspaper, radio, and television coverage.  Last year, five of the
>team's home games were broadcast locally on television.
 
        Who contols the economic side of this?  I take it the athletic
department has nothing to do with it since it is just a club sport.  By
sounds of it UI makes a lot of money off hockey.  Where does it go?  Do the
players get payed?  Who arranges the TV and radio deals?  Who sells the
tickets?  Why is it just a club sport?
 
Brad
 
and ON WISCONSIN!
 
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Brad Edward Toberman                       Songs to thee Wisconsin
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Big Ten Champs 1993                         Queen of all the West
Rose Bowl Champs 1994                        College we love best
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WCHA Tournament Champs 1995                  College we love best
 
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