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Jerry's lockout strategy could backfire

Zod

By Zod,
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Southern fans, imo, have always loved their sports teams and especially so in Charlotte. When the Hornets came here, they did fantastic through a boatload of bull shiznacky. The Bobcats do well, hell the Knights do alright.

It appears to me that Panthers fans may be fickle in general but come a start to the next season, the hype of pro football will bring it back. Southerners love their sports and with all due respect to you guys that love college football, it's just not enough and its just not the same product the NFL is putting out.

Did you have a precedent that makes you think that it will be a problem or is it just how quickly fans give up in the middle of the season? I dont know, I could see either happening I s'pose, but it just seems like it would take more than the lockout itself. The Panthers have always been a very respectable team with respect to what they are giving their fans and that started with the integrity of the owner.

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Excellent point Zod... it wouldn't drive away the fans of the likes of those that post on this board, but the majority of Panthers fans are just casual fans and it will drive away a lot of them.

yeah, but the point itself doesn't matter.

if a lockout causes the panthers to lose the "casual" fans, then by their very nature, they will return once the lockout is over to once again become casual fans. thus, no loss.

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Southern fans, imo, have always loved their sports teams and especially so in Charlotte. When the Hornets came here, they did fantastic through a boatload of bull shiznacky. The Bobcats do well, hell the Knights do alright.

It appears to me that Panthers fans may be fickle in general but come a start to the next season, the hype of pro football will bring it back. Southerners love their sports and with all due respect to you guys that love college football, it's just not enough and its just not the same product the NFL is putting out.

Did you have a precedent that makes you think that it will be a problem or is it just how quickly fans give up in the middle of the season? I dont know, I could see either happening I s'pose, but it just seems like it would take more than the lockout itself. The Panthers have always been a very respectable team with respect to what they are giving their fans and that started with the integrity of the owner.

Hopefully the Panthers don't start looking to build a new stadium any time soon. That could chase off many diehard fans.

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Great topic, Zod. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out if there is a lockout. I expect this topic to be the featured article in the sports page of the local paper now, and be the NFL topic on the local sports radio station.

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Great topic, Zod. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out if there is a lockout. I expect this topic to be the featured article in the sports page of the local paper now, and be the NFL topic on the local sports radio station.

You forgot ESPN with Patty Y.

Yo, Patty, when you read this throw a shout-out to my boy Sticky Fingers from House in the article for me. Thanks in advance.

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We all know panthers fans are a fickle group. A few losses an you can't give your ticket away.

So what happens if the panthers have a losing season as a result if the veteran purging, and then there is a lockout the following season?

I don't think that is something that us recovered from quickly as far as fan support. Could set the panthers back to pre-superbowl days.

Will the casual fan come back right away?

Depends on the kind of advertising and promotions they do. Nothing more. Casual fans get suckered into things just as easily as they leave. The key is to draw them in, and it could be done relatively easily even after the lockout if executed correctly.

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It's pretty simple for a lot of people I've asked about this.

If the owner isn't willing to spend money on the team, why should the average fan?

Of course such a thought is blasphemous for the hardcore fan, but if the "discount team" label sticks it could hurt the organization's revenue streams.

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We have to look at it with what we know. No CBA, most players on a 1 year contract, all coaches on a 1 year contract. The answer will be Yes. And the team will be in trouble.

We can't assume that there will be a CBA next year, although we'd all like there to be, and we can't assume that they will extend any players or coaches during this season.

The Panthers didn't just not sign our FA's because we didn't have many. They cut players mostly of a certain age. Because this year alone there would be no hit against a cap. I understand Peppers' deal, I don't understand Delhomme's because of the money we still are paying him. They did him a huge favor.

Right now if the CBA passed I'm not sure we would be able to field 22 players that aren't kickers or named Steve Smith in 2011. Signing extensions if the CBA passes would be ugly because, hey, there would be a ton of cap room each agent would rightly be thinking. So if there is no CBA JR spends the least money of any team in 2011 but what will he have in 2012? There's not much and it could get very ugly very fast. It would be worse than pre-2002 days because then we wouldn't have an owner that we could count on to put together a winning team.

We'd be the Buffalo Bills, southern edition. Ralph Wilson purged in 94-95 and they have struggled since. No Bills fan, die hard or not, trusts Wilson.

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