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What's happening with the Panthers? Well, this report from 4 months ago might actually be true.

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8 hours ago, ItsPantone278 said:

Charlotte is one of the worst markets in the sport.  Sure you get your foot in the NFL shared cash, but if this team became the jags or browns because they can't get stability in the front office or coaching staff a lot of these fans would leave.  Forcing the new owner who has possibly lost even more value in the investment to consider relocation, which weve learned is very expensive, or just selling.

Tl;Dr it's a riskier buy unless the buyer would be confident he or she has the ability to build an entire front office from ground zero.

Not even close to accurate. 

The psl system was a brilliant move by Richardson in that he has basically assured this team will or will come close to selling out games despite the teams success or failures. That fact alone makes the panthers a very enticing buy. 

Richardson could cut bait with every player coach and ball boy, and would still come close to selling out every game. The reason being is that psl owners are pretty well stuck with their purchase and are not going to volunteer to give them up after having sunk such a large expense in to each one. 

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37 minutes ago, bigdog10 said:

Not even close to accurate. 

The psl system was a brilliant move by Richardson in that he has basically assured this team will or will come close to selling out games despite the teams success or failures. That fact alone makes the panthers a very enticing buy. 

Richardson could cut bait with every player coach and ball boy, and would still come close to selling out every game. The reason being is that psl owners are pretty well stuck with their purchase and are not going to volunteer to give them up after having sunk such a large expense in to each one. 

But if the stadium is empty and concessions aren't being sold and nobody cares it's still bad for his business.

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Igo isn't usually right, but he posted yesterday that prospective buyers like stability way more than they would care about who the particular grunts are that are working in the front office. That's dead on. Who the GM is or isn't would be such small potatoes to a prospective buyer, it's not even worth considering. It would be like suggesting that Netflix fired their social media guy to make the sale of the company more attractive to Apple.

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9 hours ago, ItsPantone278 said:

Charlotte is one of the worst markets in the sport.  Sure you get your foot in the NFL shared cash, but if this team became the jags or browns because they can't get stability in the front office or coaching staff a lot of these fans would leave.  Forcing the new owner who has possibly lost even more value in the investment to consider relocation, which weve learned is very expensive, or just selling.

Tl;Dr it's a riskier buy unless the buyer would be confident he or she has the ability to build an entire front office from ground zero.

Not the way the NFL calculates a media market.  We're actually larger than Atlanta because we get Columbia, Greenville/Spartanburg, Greensboro, etc...  Someone on Reddit did the math...

 

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FWIW, the Panthers would likely sell for somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion-plus dollars.  We could cut our entire roster and this would still be the cost.  As mentioned, we're almost a guaranteed sellout because of PSLs and we're in a good-sized market.  We also have lots of Bojangles in the immediate vicinity, which should attract the kind of owner we want.

These moves are not for preparing the team for sale.  Even if the team was getting sold, these would come across more as vindictive than prepping the team, and I don't think any of them were vindictive.  I believe that JR wants a particular culture here.  He knows that Hurney believes in that and understands it so he's comfortable with Hurney as an interim GM, and in the next search there will be guaranteed interview questions about that so he doesn't repeat the Gettleman experiment.  Our next GM will likely share some of GMan's good points, particularly around scouting, but there will be more people-managing skills involved.

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10 hours ago, ARSEN said:

Back in March, Jason La Canfora reported that other owners expect the Panthers to be up for sale before Richardson dies.  Richardson denied that report.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article140987518.html

What do you have now?  No GM, no director of player personal, head coach on hot seat, top talent locked up and etc.

This team is being set up for sale.  Once the sale goes thru, new owner can install his own GM and etc.

I might be wrong but there is a lot of things happening really fast at very high positions.  Usually businesses don't do that unless they gearing up for something.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Panthers are cleaning house. 

Really, really, really hope our new owner isn't some idiot who thinks he knows football 

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