re: Sports are a Changing

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Hockey is a legit major sport.

Arena's are packed across North America, it's also the most global sport beside soccer. All of Europe, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Canada, US -- all excel at hockey.

It's growing as a revenue sport in college too, a lot of campuses it's right there with basketball, or even more important.

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Penn State has been very successful with their hockey program in an extremely small amount of time. I fully expect Arizona State to be competing for Frozen Fours within a decade - all that school has to do is recruit Southern California, Arizona, and Texas, and they'll be very successful.

I'd like to see an SEC school devote some time/resources to making a varsity program. Kentucky or Arkansas could probably pull it off the fastest. Unfortunately, Title IX pretty much guarantees that unless a wealthy, hockey-loving alumni (such as Pegula at PSU) want the game, the school isn't going to go out on a limb for it.