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NorthStar Mixed Used Develpment in Williston. http://www.rejournals.com/2014/08/18/dakota-insight-land-investments-still-making-an-impact-in-the-bakken/

They never attacked the substance of what I wrote, they attacked me for being a voice of truth and reason and vision. That's how bisonville rolls. No facts, but plenty of emotional blowhards. If any bisonville poster they supports hockey or something associated with UND, they are immediately verbally gang raped. That's how it rolls down there. No one can deviate from the standard bisonville line without getting torn apart without a fair hearing. Its a regular Ferguson down there.

Brian Faison: I give you some Bisonville trolls that say the Big Sky can never go FBS. If the brain trust of Bisonville says it can't be done, shouldn't we listen to their supposed superior wisdom? LOL They question the sanity of any UND fan saying UND should move up. I guess its because they are so very afraid that it is true. Gene Taylor left because he didn't want to be part of a FBS Big Sky, which is the only option for NDSU to go FBS. Wyobisonman on 2/4/2013: He is perhaps one of the most stupid posters to ever hit the internet. It is just stunning that he posts such garbage publicly and exposes his lack of a brain. I suspect in school he rode the short bus......then that bus took him to UND to complete his education. 344Johnson (posts here as JohnnyBoy) on 2/4/2014 This starvolleynodak guy is an embarrassment to the state. SoCalledFan on 8/22/2014: Oh, Sioux Volley, wow: "If Fullerton's scheme to use Idaho to gain FBS status works, NDSU will be begging to join the Big Sky. The first two Big Sky games would likely be scheduled in Grand Forks, 2017 and 2018, UND won't have to pay for those games. NDSU will have to pay in 2019 for UND to come. The Big Sky wanted NDSU to lay down the axe before coming a member. UND gets more than what's immediately apparent. Gene Taylor would never have signed this contract, so he was told by Bresciani that he needed to leave so NDSU could go FBS and get in the Big Sky."

The first tournament will be tough: G Washington was picked 4th if the Atlantic 10, and the A10 normally has top teams like Dayton. Auburn finished strong in the SEC and has the #14 recruited class coming in plus good transfers Ark St may be the only win, as they are picked 8th out of 11 in the Sun Belt. We need Pioske to be healthy for this tournament.

I said the very same thing nut Southpaw wants to run this board and won't put up with that kind of talk. He says he doesn't want speculation. As if sports message board are all speculation. That's why people visit them. Bresciani has to postion NDSU to be in good graces with the Big Sky. The Big Sky won't put up with an AD who has it in for one of its schools. NDSU had to do an about face to go FBS with the Big Sky. NDSU doesn't want to saddle the next AD with having to make up to UND. This is the only opening as they start interviewing AD candidates next week and NDSU doesn't want this brought up to the candidates. If NDSU gets in the Big Sky, the league will schedule NDSU in Grand Forks in 2017 or 2018 and NDSU will still have to pay UND for the 2019 FargoDome that they normally would have got for free.

And we don't need your posts that say nothing.. If you don't like what I have to say, don't read them.

If Fullerton's scheme to use Idaho to gain FBS status works, NDSU will be begging to join the Big Sky. The first two Big Sky games would likely be scheduled in Grand Forks, 2017 and 2018, UND won't have to pay for those games. NDSU will have to pay in 2019 for UND to come. The Big Sky wanted NDSU to lay down the axe against UND before coming a member. UND gets more than what's immediately apparent. Gene Taylor would never have signed this contract, so he was told by Bresciani that he needed to leave so NDSU could go FBS and get in the Big Sky.

More traffic brings more potential appreciation in value. But you have to get it rezoned and sell it to get the benefitsl

OneOK has announced two gas plants this year that will each cost more that $500 million, both near Watford City. That will make 7 OneOK plants around Watford City and Williston. Those are corporate construction, but I guess Sanford isn't a public corporation. Williston and Watford City, which will eventually be seen as one metro, will not pass the FM arena in this decade or probably the next. But as long as oil is king, it will keep growing, just as Edmonton has and as Midland-Odessa. If the OneOK plants would produce ethane, propane, and butane result is a chemical industry along the Missouri: what has been incredible growth will accelerate. The HS for Watford City that is being constructed is already undersized, Williston is building a new HS and grade schools and District 8, the rural areas turning suburb around Williston will probably need its own HS as well as adding several elementary schools.

Fargo can't keep up with the wealth of Williston though.

Looks like Williston could get a 16 story hotel and convention center mostly funded by private sources. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/18/us-williston-conventioncenter-idUSKBN0GI1V220140818

Epping Lives ... and will grow into a small city http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/little-epping-braces-for-its-share-of-oil-boom/article_5e036fc8-257e-11e4-b4b9-0019bb2963f4.html

There is no moratorium on going DI for DII schools, or for DII schools to go DI in sports like hockey, skiing, or men's volleyball, but the DII school has to have a conference invite. But if a CIS, DIII, or NAIA wants to do it, its not possible (except for DIII with no scholarships). Schools can no longer move up in a single sport for wrestling, baseball, or lacrosse, because those sports have championships at the DII and DIII level. SFU and Arizona State would get an offer from the NCHC eventually if they started DI hockey. But the WCHA would probably invite them straight out of the gate, as western schools could minimize travel to Alaska for eastern schools. Eastern Washington and Lindenwood are other possibilities for the WCHA. E Wash has a rink on campus and could play games in Spokane. Lindenwood will finish their DII transition, so they would be eligible to move a sport to DI like men's hockey. They have an option to buy the arena in St Charles MO. The WCHA commish hinted that he sees more changes coming, including another league eventually forming. There's a good chance BGSU, Ferris St, and UAH take their pucks elsewhere and go with western AHA teams and form a new conference. A newspaper article from Bowling Green last year talked about that was likely to happen.

southpaw: I thought smart alec and dumbass posts were limited to bison troll, but obviously I'm wrong again. UBC never joined the NCAA, because all kinds of CIS schools lobbied for them to stay in the CIS. UBC viewed even DII as acceptable, because eventually MW Hockey, M Volleyball, and MW Skiing could have been DI. Other CIS saw UBCs departure as the eventual demise of the CIS (Alberta and Calgary were considering it if UBC did, and that would have cause Manitoba, Saskatchewan, to join the NCAA). Simon Fraser is the only school that took up the NCAAs offer to allow Canadian schools, and the now play in the same conference as the Alaska schools. SFU administrators meet face to face with UAF and UAA people at least twice a year, so certainly they know that travel issues in the WCHA and how SFU could help that situation. SFU onl added hockey as a club sport when it moved to the NCAA, and I'm told that it was no coincidence by a SFU fan: SFU administrators want DI hockey. SFU has 30,000 students, in a metro with 2 M+, a top academic school in Canada, a great hockey recruiting area, multiple arena choices: what is not to like from the WCHA President's perspective?

Obviously I'm wrong. It must have changed recently, as websites state eligiblity that doesn't include Major Juniors. Apologies to cberkas. But it doesn't change the fact the Simon Fraser is eligible to start a D1 program. There are otherwise DII and are just completing their transition, and Simon Fraser just happened to start a club team when they went DII. Simon Fraser could be looked as an opportunity to increase the popularity of the NCAA college game in Canada, not diminish it in the NCAAs battle against Major Juniors. With them in the NCAA, Canadian cable TV will follow and US teams will benefit. Why is that so hard for some posters to understand? Any switch to NCAA DI would have massive roster changes and only a few players would be ineligible. Why would UND and Princeton travel there to play them last January, when Canadian exhibitions are almost exclusively on US soil? WCHA commissioner Robertson must be totally out of his mind according to posters here.

Maybe, just maybe, you should be more courteous when insisting you are right, when you are not. WCHA Commissioner Robertson mentioned a Canadian school. The only one that is eligible is Simon Fraser. Take it up with him if you don't like it.

Bowling Green and Buffalo are members of the MAC. The MAC has TV contracts to negotiate. If hockey is included in the cable package, that's more money for everybody with a bus league to boot. That is incentive enough. The MAC is a close conference, and even the schools without hockey hate to see BGSU and maybe Buffalo suffer in the WCHA. To Southpaw, who said UAH would never get in the MAC for hockey: In Alabama, UAH is the place for technical and engineering degrees, UAB is to the place for medicine and UA is for law and liberal arts and business. UAH is a fine university and their hockey only needs to begin recruiting to be on par with Bowling Green. Their facilities are already better and its not that far from Oxford or Kalamazoo.

If you actually read what I wrote, ASU and Simon Fraser will be in the WCHA first (just to save the teams in the WCHA travel), and then the NCHC when their programs are more established.

And the writing was on the wall the UND and Denver would leave the WCHA to from a now league. It not rocket science, but people make it out that it is. Conference alignment is always about money and about academics.

Simon Fraser plays in the BCIHL, which doesn't allow major juniors to play in it. The CIS does, but not those British Columbia teams plus Eastern Washington.

Buffalo wouldn't go to a conference that doesn't allow all scholarships. So I am a bad person for saying Penn State would result in a Big Ten hockey conference and WCHA and CCHA breakup or that UND was heading for the Big Sky when nobody else would believe me?

Terry Pegula will probably buy the Buffalo Bills, in addition to owning the Sabres. For him, helping the Buffalo Bulls start a DI hockey team would ingratiate him big time in Buffalo (most thought the new owner of the Bills would move them to Toronto, but Pegula has promised to keep them in Buffalo). If the Buffalo Bulls have hockey, that would be four MAC schools. The MAC schools are likely to break away and start their own conference, with other schools filling in a few slots (like Robert Morris, UAH, maybe even Syracuse or Pitt). Bowling Green wants to leave the WCHA and there isn't really a place for Buffalo except in a new league.

Looks like the WCHA is looking into expansion. http://www.newsminer.com/sports/uaf_nano...f6878.html His use of "maybe into Canada" would seem to imply that Simon Fraser, a surburban Vancounver BC school, could start DI hockey. They are a DII school right now and they would be eligible after their just completed DII transition to elevate their club status hockey team. The eastern schools in the WCHA desperately want Pacific Time Zone schools to be added, so only the western schools need to go to Alaska twice a year. There are allowed extra games per the NCAA from making one trip, but two trips is no benefit but a killer on costs. This in the divisional structure that the WCHA probably wants: Pacific UA Anchorage UA Fairbanks Simon Fraser Arizona St Michigan Division Michigan Tech N Mich Lake Sup St Ferris St Midwest Division Bemidji St Minn St- Mankato Bowling Green UA Huntsville Within a division, play a H/A series. Outside the division, alternate H/A series every year. The schools would be guaranteed one series in Alaska every year and one in Alabama every other year, except divisional opponents. Think Simon Fraser and Arizona State will be bound for the NCHC once their programs get established (probably after two years).

The amount of gas actually increases for a time as the oil flow rates goes down. With the rate at which technology is increasing, at least 2050, and probably beyond. Even now, only about 8% of the oil comes out of the ground. With CO2 injection, that number could be as high as 20%.

Six high rise buildings are part of the development. OneOK just announced another gas plant around Watford City, it biggest yet and its fifth in the county. Just in McKenzie County, OneOK will have nearly a billion cfh capacity, which is large for anywhere, never mind Watford City. Those gas plants total capital costs is around $2 billion, so McKenzie County will have a huge tax base and nearly 1000 jobs with OneOK in the off chance no more oil wells are drilled there. The New York developers understood that Watford City will be economically viable for their lifetimes. Right now, those gas plants don't recover ethane, but send it down the pipelines with methane to be burned. Ethane is a big part of Bakken natural gas, one of the richer streams of ethane around. That is an incredible waste of resources, burning ethane with methane. One day, European or Asian chemical companies will want that ethane to be converted in polyethylene, probably near the Missouri River. When that day comes, Watford City and Williston will add a secondary boom almost as big as the first one.