The facilities are great, but chippaz are only choosing facilities as a tie breaker. Other top programs aren't exactly playing with chickenwire and garbage...the hockey as #1 on campus is a pro and con. You don't have big time hoops and football to watch live while you walk around campus ...the chippas have beautiful girls all over the country talking to them, so being a leg up over the QB for the local bombshell isn't a big draw.
the fair assessment is we have got to overcome the handicap of Grand Forks being where and what it is, and (to your point) the fact that we aren't the factory we were under Blais and Hak.
favilities plus path to the show is the only way. Path to the show isn't going to happen overnight. As much as we love Chyzy and Jax, we need Toews, Oshie, Parise, Stafford, Zajac, Greene, Nelson, Boeser, Schmaltz, Pinto, Sanderson pumping how playing at UND was instrumental