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"I hate urban sprawl." "OK here's a solution." ..... Too dense? That's a new one. Downtown areas are becoming too dense! 😆

Oh so that's what you really wanted to talk about. Not that Grand Forks does indeed need a few apartments and a bunch of other housing every year to keep up with real data historical growth.... Insteaf you want to just compare GF to others....If that's the case. Yeah everyone knows GF isn't growing as fast as it's peers. That drum has been beat repeatedly for 20+ years and no one will argue you about it. Lol

Case in point. You're table can't even get the 2020 Grand Forks Census numbers right. And that's just easy copy and paste stuff.

Why would you use made up data when we have real data? Census runs every 10 yrs. The last was in 2020. It grew by over 6,000 people from the previous real data point, in 2010. For current trends that's about 250 or so "housing units needing to be built a year." 40 to 60 units per apartment. Although they keep getting bigger and bigger. You can do the math. From 2010 to 2020 Grand Forks needed a lot of housing per year to keep up with population growth. Made up estimates don't mean anything. We've see that time and time again. They have a bad track record for anyone paying attention. Even if it only grows 3,000 people the next ten years you'll need a at least couple new apartment complex a year to keep up with the population growth....not to mention more single family homes, condos, townhouses.

On average Grand Forks needs about two to four new apartment complexes a year to keep up with population growth.

Looks like Grand Forks will continue to have the state's largest indoor waterpark.

Probably as long as they want since they own the building. If mortgages, tenants likely cover the morrgage costs. But yes missed opportunity costs. Which I'm sure they're aware of. Place has historical been empty. I don't think many people are banging on their door to rent it out.

Just like we're seeing with Italian Moon/Happy Joe's. Restaurants are a labor of love. Once the owner/founder get old and moves on, the odds of survival greatly dimish. There's only so much juice in the lemon. What once was a prime location isn't anymore. What was once a new building is now outdated. Places like Bonzers survive partly because it's was passed to the family who grew up in the environment and learned and still have parents as mentors. Places like Joe Dimagios got bought and turned into a better place with a new name. Ponderosa turned into BWW. Then there's every young kid with a dream "I'm gonna start a restaurant or bar." It's the low hanging fruit of business. They are usually not adequately prepared.

Ray Richard's? Like property taxes? Ray Richard's Property Tax Bill

The Range looks nice. A lot of places want to be a restaurant/bar with golf Sims. Albatross is golf focused: a pro shop, golf lessons, high end simulators (including wrap around sims). The golf is first. The "bar" at Albatross is mainly like a beer cart at a golf course. And he likes it that way. I thought his newer place in the mall was pretty nice. Feels like a "modern bowling alley" with each "lane" having it's own tvs and couches. If you're there for the pure golfing experience. Albatross wins easily. The Range Sims are equivalent to the ones they sell for at home use.

Yeah that's gonna be a cluster

NCHC had the top two teams in the country yet again. Sad reality is no other college hockey conference is even close to competing with the NCHC.

It would cost $200+ Million to build Engelstad Arena today. And US Bank over $1.4 Billion So I don't think $500 million is "US Bank stadium territory."

It's all the Herald. The guy before brad was good too. The guy after Brad will be just as good if not better. Virg, Brad, and the next guy get paid a full time salary to just talk and research UND hockey....thanks to UND fans who pay for the Herald. UND hockey fans can thank UND hockey fans for the great coverage.

Dirty little secret....big companies love regulations...even pushing for them! Increases the barriers of entry for new players/competition.

Take the "zero NIL" with a grain of salt. Put your name on, and run a hockey camp in the summer = $$$ Or any of the other 1000 ways....speeches...like former president's can be big money makers too.

I asked my bff,

Exactly. The "theory" and the "practice" are not aligned. We saw a former UND player transfer and he somehow knows his exact dollar amount already?! How did that happen? Joe Blow from across the country just really liked the kid and thought he could help out his brand?! Lol. You're living in a dream world. NIL is a type of blue ribbon commission that runs parallel to university. The kids are bought and paid for. And when you sit down to offer a kid a scholarship, he'll tell you exactly how much the other schools/collective offered him. And if you'd like to match it. Dane Jackson is the middleman between any collective and the recruit. There's a baseline salary for everyone: Alston, sales of names on jerseys, and a share of donation pot.....Imo try and share that pot pretty evenly. And of course everyone knows they can go out and get their own NIL money anytime anywhere. That sorta goes without saying. That would spark curiosity not controversy amongst players. "How'd you do that? Maybe I should try that."

Wonder how "different amounts of NIL" divide a locker room in today's college landcspe. Everyone with $0 means everyone is equal. Maybe Dane ( i mean cough* non UND entity* cough) should pay everyone equally and if someone doesn't come because they want more money, you instantly know they don't fit. Just gotta think one or two guys making a lot more than the rest of the team might even subconsciously divide a team. Suddenly UND becomes "David" again vs "Goliath".....small teams with little money....against the Big Ten schools with all their fancy money laden rosters! Lean into this culture. It's what built UND into a powerhouse! Small UND vs Big school Gophers! UND: "the leftover players who the Gophers and Michigans didn't want" was the attitude....that national attitude put a chip on UND players shoulders in the 80s and 90s. That attitude won National Championships. Problem is we became too big with the new Ralph and all the Championships. It developed a big target on our backs! And like the Michigan's and Gophers, UND the last twenty years got everyone's A game. Time to go back and reestablish our roots.

IDK, a career focused individual is sorta what I'd like to see in a head coach.

Exact quote. Freudian slip as he stumbled over his words.

"If I was an ambitious guy, I would have left 15 years ago."

I love how a couple key individuals came together and formed a non profit to help UND athletics. This isn't a full time job for them. They are just volunteers. And asking for money like any non profit. People acting like this is a UND alumni association at work. Maybe UND should funnel some money to form another collective with full time fundraisers! It's not going to be easy to suddenly add $500k to $million+ a year to the "donation pockets" of the UND stakeholders.

Going to be fun when a star NHL player goes to two NCAA schools and both get to claim him as theirs.