Tepper asking the city of Charlotte to pay for MLS stadium

[Paa Langfart]

There should be no billionaires !

[Panthro]

17 minutes ago, ARSEN said:

Nah, people who understand soccer know what it’s all about.  No different than watching baseball, golf and etc.  Many people deem NFL unwatchable because 60% of it are commercials.

Oh I am just kidding. I coach soccer

[PantherOnTheProwl1523]

2 hours ago, ARSEN said:

Soccer and NFL fields are different sizes.  It will likely require destroying part of cement sitting on each side and replacing it with foldable sitting so people do not lose PSL seats.  

NFL field is about 53 yards wide and soccer field should be 70-80 yards wide.  So BofA field need to be widened by about 20 yards.  

Soccer players hate playing on NFL fields as 22 players are compacted into much smaller area.  It negatively impacts the game and fan experience.

Where would our players be if there are barely any sidelines to sit or visiting opponents. There is some discrepancies here to deal with to remedy this somehow if the field is widened.

[PghPanther]

Another stick and ball sports owner looking to get public funding for a private business.................You never saw an owner in motorsports ask for public funding.........like stick and ball sports, motorsports is a private business and if speedways didn't have the money to expand or more forward they took their business public in an IPO instead of raping the tax payer.......

But not this Panther owner.........just like the rest of these stick and ball sports owners they want tax payers money for something many people don't even care for............and don't give me the economic impact trade off they use to try to leverage tax payers money out of the coffer either...that flies like a jet in theory and in the long term becomes an albatross around the neck of any franchise that doesn't win...

The only good thing about PSLs here was it paid for a stadium without tax payers getting screwed...........the only people the Panthers screwed in that deal were you PSL owners.......

I'm telling you if this current owner doesn't get what he wants like a roof over BoA he will take this team and walk..................and I say good riddance........

There..........how's that for a bellyaching post?

[Ja Rhule]

6 minutes ago, PantherOnTheProwl1523 said:

Where would our players be if there are barely any sidelines to sit or visiting opponents. There is some discrepancies here to deal with to remedy this somehow if the field is widened.

Basically would need to destroy part of the lower level and replace it with seating like in high school gym.  That area could be rolled out for football but rolled back for soccer. Considering that Tepper wants entrance in midfield tells me that this is exactly the plan.  

[blackcat]

15 hours ago, Bartin said:

Tarps don’t cost $100-200M. I’m wondering why he needs that much money for soccer specific renovations. What else could the stadium need that’s specific to soccer?

They sent out a survey earlier in the year to PSL owners regarding the Panthers and gauging MLS interest.  In that survey, some of the questions pertained to different seating sections for both Panthers and MLS games, adding 'party decks', boxes, etc.  I'm guessing those, along with a roof, would warrant the $100-200 ask.

[SBiii]

46 minutes ago, PghPanther said:

I'm telling you if this current owner doesn't get what he wants like a roof over BoA he will take this team and walk..................and I say good riddance........

There..........how's that for a bellyaching post?

I don't think he will walk.  The region supports the team too well for him to move it.

Good job on the bellyaching!

[Bartin]

4 hours ago, ARSEN said:

Soccer and NFL fields are different sizes.  It will likely require destroying part of cement sitting on each side and replacing it with foldable sitting so people do not lose PSL seats.  

NFL field is about 53 yards wide and soccer field should be 70-80 yards wide.  So BofA field need to be widened by about 20 yards.  

Soccer players hate playing on NFL fields as 22 players are compacted into much smaller area.  It negatively impacts the game and fan experience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Stadium#/media/File%3AMexico_vs_Iceland_Panorama_(4463906303).jpg

There is plenty of width there already to have a full size field. The dimensions in this picture look to be around 75 yards wide.

[PantherGuy]

No thanks Tepper

[djp14]

2 hours ago, PghPanther said:

You never saw an owner in motorsports ask for public funding.

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Since 1960, Charlotte Motor Speedway has played host twice a year to NASCAR's premier series. But according to track owner Bruton Smith, he is strongly considering moving one of the track's two dates to a different facility.

In an interview with WBTV, Smith, the president of Speedway Motorsports, Inc., said there is a 70 percent chance he will move Charlotte's traditional fall date to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, one of eight NASCAR tracks he owns.

Smith has long sought a second race for his Las Vegas track and has openly campaigned NASCAR to award the speedway another event. However, with the Sprint Cup Series calendar full at 36, races plus two exhibition events, NASCAR has continually declined his request.

"I've been having some strong conversations about one of these events being moved," Smith told WBTV. "And Las Vegas is a great place -- it's the entertainment capital of the world -- and they want another event."

But while Smith may sound serious about shifting a race out of the hub of NASCAR, this by all measures is just more bluster in an attempt to obtain additional public funding. He has been in a protracted battle -- public and legal -- with Cabarrus County, where the Concord, N.C., track is located.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed by Smith against the city and county stemming from a contract he claimed officials reneged on to make infrastructure improvements. He says that while this issue does center on money, this latest news shouldn't be construed as a "threat, per se."

"Some of your dear friends over at Cabarrus County are gonna say 'Is he? Is he? Is he?' Well... he may," Smith said. "Someone once said 'follow the money.' Well, if we do this, we will be following the money because, here again, there's a lot of money in Las Vegas.

"And if it gets to be strong enough, I imagine we might do something like that."

 

[PghPanther]

12 minutes ago, djp14 said:

 

That was funding for the improvements not of the speedway facility but of the transportation infrastructure around the area .......aka roads. So technically not asking for money for their facility.

[thefuzz]

Under no circumstances.

 

Thank you, buh bye.

[BudFox]

Tepper could threaten to leave Charlotte, but honestly, where else would he go? Could the tax base in South Carolina support it alone? Probably not. 

If anything the money should come from a regional coalition.  If it's TWO STATES, ONE TEAM, then two states should be involved.  

[Moose Hoover]

They should play indoor in the ballroom