TV Coverage of NCAA Div.I College Hockey is a total joke.  Unless you
live in a College Hockey town that has a local station that carries it,
you are out of luck.  ESPN gets most of the blame, and rightfully so!!!
They will air garbage like the "Extreme Games", Professional Pool (I kid
you not, I saw it once!!!), and Yaht Racing.  But put an exciting and
addicting product like College Hockey in front of them, and they ignore
it.  Maybe it didn't occur to these corporate suits that if you gave the
viewing public a taste of College Hockey, at least SOME of them might
get hooked?!?!  But, I believe that the Anti-Hockey NC$$ is also to
blame.  They don't care about Hockey at all.  They do nothing to promote
it, and they have a whole host of rules that hurt it (Major Juniors Rule
tops the list, but that's a different post).  I believe that, if given
the chance, that Div.I College Hockey could become a major money maker
for the NC$$.  But, since most of the NC$$ suits played or were raised on
Basketball and Football, and they probably think of hockey as an
"Elitist Sport" (which it is not!), they don't want anything to do with
promoting it.  I think that it is up to College Hockey supporters to
organize a private network of local TV stations in order to promote
College Hockey.  It would feature Series of the Week, studio and coaches
shows, ect.  Each league could organize their own network.  Then, all of
us fans could tell ESPN to take a long walk off a short pier!!!!  Just my
opinion, of course.
 
Brian.
(Go UND Fighting Sioux!!!!)
 
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