Klein, Steve wrote: > College hockey may have an intense audience, but it doesn't have a > major revenue attracting audience, And my first reaction to this was "Bah! Does the World's Strongest Man Contest from the '70s have a revenue attracting audience? Does the world snooker championship have a revenue attracting audience? There MUST be a larger audience for collegiate hockey than these two." But then a more rational Mike took over. Could it be that the two previously mentioned sports were (virtually) FREE to ESPN. College hockey clearly is not. So they don't mind putting shows on that don't generate revenue - as long as it doesn't cost them a dime. This, of course, makes some sense. I'm sure ESPN's decision making process as to what they should air somewhat resembles the following list (in this order): 1) Free to ESPN, makes lots of money 2) Costly to ESPN, makes lots of money 3) Free to ESPN, makes no money 4) Costly to ESPN, makes no money 5) Nothing Numbers 4 and 5 may be out of order. Also, feel free to substitute one of the major networks for ESPN. So what does this mean? Well, as has already been pointed out, the internet is a great resource. Why is that? Are there any other sports that have the same sort of internet-based following? Are college hockey fans geeks? Whatever the reason, there is a lot out there: US College Hockey Online, USA Today Online College Hockey, HOCKEY-L. Most schools have decent web pages devoted to their hockey teams. Until someone comes up with a way for television (cable, network, or otherwise) to make money on college hockey, we won't see it. In the meantime, enjoy what we've got. Imagine what it was like for college hockey fans only ten years ago. -Mike -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Kahn - Clarkson '91 Let's Go Tech! Cascade Communications Corp. e-mail: [log in to unmask] HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.