ESPN: Where Panthers sale stands. (Updates, some out)

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

The best thing JR can do for his legacy now is to utilize is  wealth. The best thing for that is to have it all at his disposal before he passes. All this talk of holding on is based on? What? It's not like it took much for him to put the team for sale. He put it in to motion without any pressure to do do. He didn't put up the faintest fight to keep it 

Technically it took a sexual harassment scandal.

General consensus from people who cover the team is that Richardson agreed to sell in order to avoid NFL investigation. Then the NFL decided to investigate anyway. 

That's why some wonder what his relationship with the league is like right now. Richardson might have expected  some "quid pro quo" for everything he feels he's done for the league, but he didn't get it.

Regardless, he obviously doesn't have the power to say "let me take five or ten years to think about it". The league wants the stink associated with this scandal to go away, and in today's day and age they don't have the kind of power to make it disappear that they used to.

The sale is going to happen. I suspect we'll have a new owner in time for training camp or by the season opener at the latest.

[RumHam]

So basically JR made a PR move, maybe he knows he has like six months to a year left. He's not going anywhere. That COO is a figurehead. Nothing will change until Big Cat pulls an Al Davis. 

[Mr. Scot]

A couple of NASCAR guys said they were interested.  Others said they weren't, unless they were.

What makes it hard to keep track of something like this is people don't always say what they really feel, for obvious reasons.