Could Raleigh eventually host a Franchise?

[Ricky Spanish]

6 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

I agree, but FYI, Wake is closer to Charlotte than Raleigh.   

Oh snap you're right, where the fug was I driving past to get crabs at backfin's all those years?

*edit*

It was a museum. A very lovely museum that looked like a campus. My dad lied to me. 

[Cary Kollins]

It'd be a shame to move to Raleigh and fill up the club section with football fans instead of wine and cheese bankers.

 

[top dawg]

Just remember,  James Goodnight lives in this area,  not Charlotte. 

[Cary Kollins]

How on earth could Raleigh expect to fill a stadium dur hurp hurp.

 

[Squirrel]

2 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Just remember,  James Goodnight lives in this area,  not Charlotte. 

Be better to move it to Greensboro. About the same distance from Charlotte and Raleigh.  Win win. 

[Davidson Deac II]

9 minutes ago, Cary Kollins said:

It'd be a shame to move to Raleigh and fill up the club section with football fans instead of wine and cheese bankers.

 

I think the first time wine and cheese crowd was used, it was actually about a crowd in the Raleigh Metro area. 

[Seltzer]

22 minutes ago, top dawg said:

The talk of the Panthers moving because of Charlotte being a "small market" are like whispers drowned out by the wind.  Moreover,  the way things are headed,  in a decade the Raleigh area will be larger than Charlotte's.  

https://www.lawnstarter.com/raleigh-nc-lawn-care/research-triangle-population-forecast

All I am saying is that don't talk about this area like some red-headed stepchild.  It's the fastest growing in this state (and one of the fastest in the country). 

Did you actually read that article?

It said in 10 years the Research Triangle CSA (Combined Statistical Area), which is a combination of the Raleigh/Cary & the Durham/Chapel Hill MSA's surpass the 2017 population of the Charlotte CSA.

So if Charlotte doesn't grow a single person over the next 10 years it could happen.

And Raleigh boosters always conflagate the percentage growth rate of the Raleigh/Cary MSA (which is by percentage the fastest growing metro area) with the RTP (Triangle) CSA, which is not growing as fast when you factor in Durham, etc but has a larger overall population closer to Charlotte area.

Anyway, long story short. Raleigh and the Triangle is undoubtably fast-growing. Raleigh already has a significant sports presence with the college sports teams there and the Hurricanes. The area doesn't lack for sports options.

However, Charlotte is still significantly larger by any measure today, and continues to adds more resident in real numbers every year. In 10 years, Charlotte will still be larger than Raleigh and the Charlotte CSA will be larger than the RTP CSA unless Charlotte just ceases to grow altogether.

Saying Raleigh is growing faster than Charlotte is like saying Charlotte is growing faster than NYC. Both are technically true by looking at percentage but in real numbers it's not true.

Anyway, Charlotte is the logical place for a NFL team in the Carolinas by any measurement (population, existing sports teams, geography, etc.)

And that's not a knock on Raleigh which I love to visit. Both areas are growing very fast, and the temptation for both areas is to believe (and to manipulate numbers) to seem the fasting growing.

[Clicheking]

Only if you want to have the same problems the Falcons have. A pro football team playing in a college town, that has problems filling the stadium on Sunday's. I already get asked 3-4 times EVERY game if I'm Carolina, State, or Duke when I'm at a Panther game in Charlotte. Imagine the nonsense you'd have to deal with if they actually started playing in Raleigh

[Squirrel]

Nevermind looked at the wrong chart. 

[Seltzer]

33 minutes ago, All about the Benjamin said:

So much hate for the 919 in thread haha. What about a competing AFC team like other states? Just a thought. 

Also, hockey is not really a southern sport like football. Harder to get people around here behind it

True on the hockey, although watching a Hurricanes game live is fun. I don't enjoy watching it on TV and I ain't driving 3 hours each way to watch.

As for the other, I would be down for Raleigh to get an AFC team like Philadelphia does with the Eagles and Steelers. Would be a fun rivalry and I could pull for the Raleigh team except when they played the Panthers.

The population growth in NC is one of the highest in the country.

The objective problem the Triangle would have in getting another sports team is just in the number they already have when you consider UNC, NCSU, and Duke.

The Triangle is a fast growing and affluent place, but there is still only so many entertainment dollars to go around.

Any pro league would look heavily at that. I personally believe that is why Raleigh got passed for a MLS team in spite of a really strong bid and better local support than Charlotte.

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, All about the Benjamin said:

All this talk of new ownership has got me thinking. Being from the Triangle, seeing how much growth we have every year along with the fact we already have an NHL team, anyone else think this could be possible in the next several years.

 

PS- Maybe even the Panthers?

Define "several." If the growth continues, I could see it as a possibility in 20-30 years, especially if another franchise decides to move. Being the 10th most populous state, I am not sure we would make the "multiple NFL team" list, however.

[kungfoodude]

12 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

True on the hockey, although watching a Hurricanes game live is fun. I don't enjoy watching it on TV and I ain't driving 3 hours each way to watch.

As for the other, I would be down for Raleigh to get an AFC team like Philadelphia does with the Eagles and Steelers. Would be a fun rivalry and I could pull for the Raleigh team except when they played the Panthers.

The population growth in NC is one of the highest in the country.

The objective problem the Triangle would have in getting another sports team is just in the number they already have when you consider UNC, NCSU, and Duke.

The Triangle is a fast growing and affluent place, but there is still only so many entertainment dollars to go around.

Any pro league would look heavily at that. I personally believe that is why Raleigh got passed for a MLS team in spite of a really strong bid and better local support than Charlotte.

The MLS decision(and let me be clear that I don't give two shits about soccer) did seem odd. I would say the Triangle has much more soccer support than Charlotte, although I question the ability of the team to survive in NC at all.

[Nails]

16 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

True on the hockey, although watching a Hurricanes game live is fun. I don't enjoy watching it on TV and I ain't driving 3 hours each way to watch.

As for the other, I would be down for Raleigh to get an AFC team like Philadelphia does with the Eagles and Steelers. Would be a fun rivalry and I could pull for the Raleigh team except when they played the Panthers.

The population growth in NC is one of the highest in the country.

The objective problem the Triangle would have in getting another sports team is just in the number they already have when you consider UNC, NCSU, and Duke.

The Triangle is a fast growing and affluent place, but there is still only so many entertainment dollars to go around.

Any pro league would look heavily at that. I personally believe that is why Raleigh got passed for a MLS team in spite of a really strong bid and better local support than Charlotte.

No, Raleigh is vastly superior as a soccer market/culture to Nashville but some government level setbacks regarding the stadium and “relatively” shallow pockets for their ownership were their death knell, for now.  MLS is also mostly a spring/summer/fall sport, opposite hockey and dying college basketball.

[RumHam]

You realize Philly and Pittsburgh are further apart than charlotte and atlanta right? not even close. leave your town.