OgieOgilthorpe
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First thing I’d do is hire a full time salaried city employee as a Business Recruiter to capitalize on the current state of the country. There are thousands of businesses around the country in California, NY, IL, CT, and best yet MN that are being gutted by their state and local governments and are chomping at the bit to move out, given the right opportunity. Call them ALL. Find out which of those companies would be a decent fit for GF and figure out some sort of benefitted offer for them to move their business to GF. Tax relief, discounted land, or whatever else would seem fit for each situation. God knows there’s an unlimited amount of Empty and open commercial real estate in Gf so that would give many of them a quick option for moving to GF if needed.
Even reaching out to every large and small drone company in the country would be a good idea, even if they’re not itching to move. Claim GF as the drone hub and they’ll be left behind not being here with the top talent and center of the industry.
Screw the good ole boys club that has drug GF down for the past decade and open some gates to get something flowing. Anything. If it’s going to compete with an existing business, then good! Create some competition.
I think the community has spoken by voting that old stagnant mayor out finally. Take some risks and create some excitement for once
GF has grown slower than the average US city (5% vs 6%) while Fargo, West Fargo, Bismarck, Mandan, Minot, Williston, Dickinson have all absolutely blown up over 15,20,30% in the same span. Jamestown is the only town over 10k that GF is growing faster than. WOOF
Obviously an oil boom is an outlier situation, but when you’re surrounded by other cities just launching with growth you should be seeing at least a little of that success which usually comes from successful neighbors. Yet, here’s GF seemingly going backwards. It’s actually depressing and sad to drive through that town with very little new sites other than shut down businesses that were just open on my last trip through. I’d love to see that turn around.
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Wow.
If Otis (only possibly?), skokna and Mitchell are the best they can offer from the backfield I’m going to be majorly concerned. Hopefully the OL is much better this year because they’re going to need all the help they can get. Seems like a pretty average D2 backfield to me.
who’s next to leave?
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Yikes. Another small kick to GF while they’re down. Can anything survive there? Where do all the residents go to spend their money? How are so many stores dying off one after another? Seemed to be slowly snowballing even before this covid-crisis. Not gonna be good for anyone but especially not good for GF unfortunately.
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8 hours ago, Speez said:
That's the reason ND should have Tier 1, AAA teams. If you don't give the better players better competition they will go other places to find it. Doesn't GF lose players to EGF for better competition? From what I understand, this is the first year Fargo had a "stacked" squirt team.
High school hockey is just high school hockey. I saw the ND high school hockey tourney and the GF and Fargo teams weren't that far apart in talent. Either team could have won it.
If you want to be the best you have to play the best.
GF kids leaving for EGF is pretty rare. This Season is the first time I can recall it happening in quite a while
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43 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Are the best Minnesota kids leaving?
A lot of them are, yes.
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16 minutes ago, gfhockey said:
Top aviator kid played for rrhs
I think you have that backwards
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1 hour ago, Walsh Hall said:
When is the last time GF didn't have the best Bantam team in the state? The Aviators are down this year from their usual standard.
Probably once every 10 years.
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On 2/27/2020 at 9:07 PM, UND1983 said:
Today is why all the top players are leaving the state.
With this logic then the same goes for MN state hockey too right? All blow outs today, so something must be wrong and it’s not competitive so that’s why kids leave. Right, right?!
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Does anyone know where/how to donate directly to the next phase of the HP facility? I’ve skimmed pretty much everywhere and can’t find a place to do that specifically.
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12 minutes ago, SiouxVolley said:
The AD knows what will happen this spring and in 2023: 30 FCS programs will realign this spring and go FBS in 2023. One year buyout in 2023. Eric Schmidt will be the new coach in 2023.
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I imagine Schuster is running the #1 QB as of now? Does Vaughn look as though he may pass him very soon?
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1 hour ago, SiouxFan100 said:
So, did the best team win?
No.
I’m still convinced Central and Davies were overall better teams but didn’t peak when it counted. It appears they were out coached and out “teamed” by RR who was solid and steady 3 lines through. Davies, Central and especially south relied heavily on 1 main line and it proved to be their weakness.
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1 hour ago, Speez said:
Upcoming younger players may change that in the near future.
Big win for the Fargo Squirt Black team being the first Fargo team to win their Squirt International tournament in it's 36 year history.
Familiar name to long time Sioux fans involved in helping this to happen.
Okay now go do this exercise with GF youth hockey rosters and come back.
It’s unbelievably scary how loaded that towns pipeline is. GF will continue to dominate with a sprinkle of Fargo and Bismarck snagging champions every once in awhile.
Judging by GF youth hockey strength, it’s unfortunately looking like they’re going to get even more dominant before they’re going to get caught up with or passed by anyone.
Fargo has the numbers to put together some teams that’ll beat them every now and then, but through and through GF just breeds hockey players. It’s all that town has (tennis doesn’t count).
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43 minutes ago, Clark17 said:
Don’t forget Fargo N/S/Sh., GF and West Fargo United.
I feel that NDHSAA is not interested in growing girls hockey or any hockey in general. Some of these issues may have been resolved already if that were the case. i.e 2 class system etc...
Look up the enrollment of the 5 bis schools and add them together vs these other schools you’ve listed. It’s not even close
With that said, the WF, Fargo, GF and Minot schools are next, but Bismarck is by far biggest issue.
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2 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
ND HS girls hockey is a joke IMO. "Bismarck" wins their 6th straight title. One HS team in Bismarck? Again really? Legacy, Century, BHS, St. Mary's, Shiloh Christian.....but just one team. DL, Jamestown, Mandan, Dickinson can fields teams but Century can't? BHS can't? Not saying every HS in Bismarck needs to have a girls hockey team but just one is ridiculous.
As each year passes I’m surprised over and over that it’s still one team.
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23 minutes ago, Cratter said:
How many years has RR been doing the blonde hair thing?
Isn't it going over 20 years now?
I think somewhere in the 2004-2006 range
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4-0 RR in the 2nd
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24 minutes ago, Cratter said:
Lasts nights RR vs Central was the real title game.
Central best Davies 6-1 for 3rd place earlier today.
Wrong, Davies and south both beat both the GF teams. It was a clean 4 team race
unbelievable how RR has emerged late in the season
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unbelievably good semi final games. Probably would’ve been the same situation if you shuffled these 4 around to the other brackets too
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2 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:
Sorry for all the questions but has south or Davies ever won state hockey?
Davies no but south has won it 3 times. 94, 99 and 2006.
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Kett make the seals yet?
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2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
I'd be thrilled to see Bottineau back at the state tournament. Another group to watch make a possible trip to the state tournament is Williston. I think with Bismarck High being a bit down and Mandan losing a ton of seniors it's a possibility.
Minot, Williston, Bott and century at state. I’d enjoy seeing that.
Early 2000s Williston used to pump out some damn good teams. They’re certainly capable
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17 minutes ago, petey23 said:
My original post was simply pointing out that yes Spooner and Rauhauser had things work out for them by staying in High School....but they had to play a couple additional years against better competition to elevate their games to the college level. 170+ and 150+ games respectively. Which is the path many take to college hockey, just recognizing the other side of the argument for kids leaving early to play against better competition.
Every kid and family has their own best interests to look out for but my personal opinion is, stay home, play other sports, play with your lifelong friends and graduate from high school and then go from there. No need to be in a hurry to get to college. You are more mature as a player at 20 but also as a human being which can help on the academic side as well.
100% Agree with your last statement. And as we all know it’s unfortunately the parents pushing them out the door most of the time. And unfortunately the vast majority of those kids waste their best years of high school playing the bench for some no name JR team in the middle of no where living with strangers. There are obvious times when kids leave and it makes total sense because you know they’re truly gifted and are going places, but the majority of the time it just makes you shake your head. More often than not, they ride the pine, bounce around to other teams gaining no traction and/or end up back at home early having watching their HS buddies compete.
My take on is that if you’re good enough, they’ll find you. And if you’re scoring 60+ points in HS and learning how to lead a team instead of playing the 3rd line averaging .25 points a game you’ll probably get more attention anyways. Why not stay home and enjoy it?
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15 minutes ago, Walsh Hall said:
And frankly, it probably could have been worse if some of the East teams wanted to pile on.
The margin for error is much smaller in the West. You need 5-6 quality players in each class to have a solid team with some depth. The top Eastern teams are able to absorb losing a few high end players. Outside possibly Bismarck, and a lesser extend Minot, the loss of a couple players is too much to overcome for the other schools in the West to be at all competitive.
I think this year is an outlier with the west. Just last year century was right there with an elite central team, and I think they’ll be right back on track again next season. High and minot will certainly be better next year as well.
Don’t laugh at me, but as long as Bott doesn’t lose anyone, they should be a top 3 team in the west for once...they don’t lose an ounce from this year to next.
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Yet another kick in the pants to Grand Forks. This was a HUGE opportunity, and Wichita took it on like the new USA Drone Capital champs they are. I’ve been following this pretty closely, and never once heard of GF even being in the running even though they should’ve been all over it. My guess is the city council and leadership weren’t and still aren’t even aware of it. Just continue on...everything is fine! We’re fine! LMAFO, what a joke. I should probably start trying to not care anymore because these hits will likely keep coming and the city clearly doesn’t care.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/07/09/2059948/0/en/AgEagle-Aerial-Systems-Selects-Wichita-Kansas-to-Locate-and-Expand-Manufacturing-Facilities.html