Walker Olson Commits!

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Billings was the largest city by far in 1960

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You gotta love AI! Your link to Copilot shows Billings with 60,000 and Great Falls with 50,000. Your link to the actual US Census for 1960 though shows Great Falls with 55,000 and Billings with 53,000

 

[alabamagrizzly]

You gotta love AI! Your link to Copilot shows Billings with 60,000 and Great Falls with 50,000. Your link to the actual US Census for 1960 though shows Great Falls with 55,000 and Billings with 53,000

 

[mthoopsfan]

Even the boosters get how much life The REAL Montana Bobby has injected into the University, the city and the fans.

You can admit I am right when UM gets the 9 figure donations, they have never received before

You are an idiot.

 

[mousegriz1]

Really? Prove it. Go back and get historical evidence that this is the case. To my recollection, he publishes his list before many, if any, of these kids are offered by either school. But I'm not the one making blanket statements.

Why don't you offer a $100 bet on it?

Following up, after thinking about it, Walker Olson or Jack Ryan could be--in 3-4 years--Billings next # 37 !!! While Clay Oven when he graduates probably designates another #37 from outside Billings, that # 37, whomever he is, could possibly turn to Walker or Dan if the stars align.

Billings currently has approximately 125,000 residents and 6 high schools: Class AA West, Senior, and Skyview, Class A Billings Central ( Catholic) and Lockwood, and Class C Billings Christian ( Evangelical Protestant). And Lockwood, approx. 7,500 souls, is in no-man's land--this " census-designated place ," Montana's 18th biggest city, is unincorporated and is not included in Billings population, yet according to the USPS, Lockwood doesn't exist, as all Lockwood addresses are part of Billings, again according to the US Postal Service. ( Lockwood does have its own full-time fire department but no police department--that is provided by YSCO, Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office. Laurel, which is an incorporated Montana city, is about the same size as Lockwood, only just west of Billings.)

And while lot of attention is paid to growth in Bozeman, Missoula and Kalispell, Billings ia also growing and is over twice as big as Bozeman and Great Falls--Bozeman, if it hasn't already, will very probably overtake Great Falls to become Montana's 3rd largest city by the 2030 census, behind only Billings and Missoula. The growth in Montana is pretty much from Billings and to the west.

Bottom line: Billings with past great Griz names like Norwood, Curry, Scrafford, Gradney, and Bergen, and currrent names Oven, Fisher and Snell, has been and will remain very important to our recruiting going forward. !!!

I've always wondered how Billings got its name. Disappointed you've never enlightened us.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Why don't you offer a $100 bet on it?

I've always wondered how Billings got its name. Disappointed you've never enlightened us.

Because I usually just offer to bet jerks. She isn't one.

And, are we going to bet whether your source(s) on the new Billings West recruit are better than mine? Or, are you afraid to back up your big mouth?

 

[SoldierGriz]

I think I remeber Billings was named after someone in the railroad industry?

Or, I could just be making crap up which seems to be the eGriz.com way.

 

[mthoopsfan]

I think I remeber Billings was named after someone in the railroad industry?

Or, I could just be making crap up which seems to be the eGriz.com way.

You are correct. Even though he never came to Billings.

 

[UncleRico]

I think I remeber Billings was named after someone in the railroad industry?

Or, I could just be making crap up which seems to be the eGriz.com way.

Fredrick I believe

 

[GriznMN]

Only on eGriz would a thread about Walker Olson committing transition into a discussion on the size and name of Billings.

Can't wait until it transitions to discussing UFOs and aliens visiting Earth.

 

[billingsgriz]

I think I remeber Billings was named after someone in the railroad industry?

Or, I could just be making crap up which seems to be the eGriz.com way.

Frederick Billings was a very successful Vermont businessman and corporate officer of The Northern Pacific Railroad that engineered its financial survival, surviving the financial collapse of The Panic of 1873, but in 1874 his survey crews and LT. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th US Cavalry in Eastern Montana along the Yellowstone River started receiving a rather unfriendly welcome from some Native Montanans named Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse and their Lakota ( Sioux ) warriors, preceding The Battle of The Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876. Frederick Billings would go onto to become NP President from 1879-81 : ).