Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Carolina Panthers owner visiting SC leaders to discuss new headquarters, practice complex


TheSpecialJuan

Recommended Posts

Team owner David Tepper is scheduled to visit with Gov. Henry McMaster and state legislative leaders next week about moving the team’s headquarters and practice facilities to York County, The Post and Courier has learned.  

The Panthers could join a growing number of Charlotte-area companies that have hopped over the North Carolina line in recent years to take advantage of South Carolina’s lower taxes and economic incentives.

The team started eyeing the Palmetto State last year to build a complex similar to a $1.5 billion development opened by the Dallas Cowboys that includes outdoor and indoor fields, team headquarters and a museum, called The Star. 

Tepper has not hidden his desire to build new practice facilities after buying the Panthers from Jerry Richardson last year for a league-record $2.2 billion. The team practices near Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, but the facilities lack the state-of-the-art amenities of its NFL rivals. 

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/carolina-panthers-owner-visiting-sc-leaders-to-discuss-new-headquarters/article_1b4ab2fa-4053-11e9-a7a0-eb0d7fb6fd28.html

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Exciting stuff. There are no joke, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAMS with better practice facilities than the Panthers. This is long overdue and will improve play on the field

I think it would be hard to take an upcoming professional NFL game seriously after just practicing in a hotel lobby room =\

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, hepcat said:

Exciting stuff. There are no joke, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAMS with better practice facilities than the Panthers. This is long overdue and will improve play on the field

The Colquitt County Packers in Moultrie, GA have an indoor practice facility, you can read about it here:

https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/stadium-arms-race-propst-pushes-better-facilities/article_136fe5ec-8955-11e8-b08e-1f8287552c4c.html

Amazing how Jerry Richardson never caught any flak over this. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, GeorgeHanson said:

The Colquitt County Packers in Moultrie, GA have an indoor practice facility, you can read about it here:

https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/stadium-arms-race-propst-pushes-better-facilities/article_136fe5ec-8955-11e8-b08e-1f8287552c4c.html

Amazing how Jerry Richardson never caught any flak over this. 

wow

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Knights moved to Charlotte because no one went to games way TF out in Rock Hill. Just like people stopped going to Hornets games at the 'Hive.' The land is definitely cheaper, and I'm sure the city would bend over backwards for any zoning changes he wanted, it just seems so disconnected. I wonder how many other practice facilities in the NFL are that far away from their stadiums. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 minutes ago, PanthersBigD said:

The Knights moved to Charlotte because no one went to games way TF out in Rock Hill. Just like people stopped going to Hornets games at the 'Hive.' The land is definitely cheaper, and I'm sure the city would bend over backwards for any zoning changes he wanted, it just seems so disconnected. I wonder how many other practice facilities in the NFL are that far away from their stadiums. 

Cowboys practice site is 37 miles from Jerry World

The new Raiders joints will be about 15 miles away from each other 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Yeah and I am doubtful he can offer that consistently. I don’t have many years left at my age and in my view we have wasted two and this whole exercise with him was always a three year minimum.  I am out on that with a guy I don’t believe in, and never believed in, it has sucked. To me it is a costly detour off the right track. Years.    But I am not so rigid that I can’t see excellence. He needs to display it though, consistently before I change my outlook.  
    • No, when I said rage, I meant rage, which only applies to certain fans on this board. Your timeline of trying to assess whether he is the future or not is really tied to the discussions surrounding his second contract. If this team is going to commit to some monster contract while he has shown nothing but glimpses of brilliance would be deservedly worrisome, so the clock is genuinely ticking for him to settle into something resembling his final form. Perhaps a best case scenario is that he plays well, the team succeeds, but he does so with a more limited role that makes the rest of the league view him as a game manager, and his second contract value reflects that. Then he continues to improve and becomes a bargain comparatively while not handicapping the team around him, and we enter an era of consistent championship competitiveness that the fanbase has craved for decades and has never really experienced before. But that requires many, many things to go right and for Bryce himself to facilitate that if he ends up being the quarterback of the future.
    • Exactly. And the flame throwers as well, get location benefits from not going all out. But they have it in reserve.  Not sure how much Greg had but he was an artist.  There was a YouTube I came across last year or maybe even 2023 and I don’t how to even find now but it had two NFL QBs I want say one was Carr from the Raiders but I don’t really remember  The point of it is they stood side by side throwing identical distances to identical targets. Radar gun was used.  They threw the normal effort (not all out) and it was measured etc. Then they were asked to throw their ‘fastball’. They were missing and most often they were missing high. It demonstrated the same principle.    edit: and applying that to arm strength, give me the guy that doesn’t need max effort to have good velocity. The margins are so narrow with less velocity in tne NFL the defenders can Close on it and this is a league where they value down to the 100th of a second level. It is that tight 
×
×
  • Create New...