I agree with what Wayne and Kurt have said. Here in LA, I know a lot of
people who have season tickets to the Kings. Among them, most have only
a curious interest in college hockey. This is mostly because they are hockey
fans in general. Most who are very interested in college hockey come from
'back east' and graduated from a college with a hockey team.
Out west, the sport needs high profile universities such as USC, UCLA, Stanford
and Arizona to go Div I. The sport needs high profile match-ups.
Look at the top 20 TV markets in the US. How many of them have a college
hockey team? Until that changes, networks such as ESPN won't show a lot of
interest. It would also help if Notre Dame's team was better.
Stan Willis
in college hockey wasteland.