Watching the Carolina Panthers this offseason has been like watching the last couple of seasons of the X-Files. You sit there and wait for something interesting or dramatic to happen, but nothing does, and all you can do is sit there and scratch your head.There's a method to this maddening silence, of course, but it's not one that makes for good copy. All we get is little tidbits, like safety Mike Minter -- still the only experienced safety on the Panthers' roster right now -- taking a pay cut to stay with the team for one more year.
Apparently, Minter has been advised that the team wants to get younger at the position, so the 33-year-old safety has been busy getting himself ready for the future -- by buying a basketball league. Yes, Minter is the proud owner of the United States Basketball Association, which isn't so much a league as it is a youth basketball tournament organizer, but Minter sees it as an opportunity for kids and a way to get into coaching basketball, another sport at which he excelled in high school. As a 5-10 guard at Lawton High in Oklahoma, Minter averaged 21 points per game.
Plus, owning the USBA gives Minter an excuse to hang out at Myrtle Beach during the summer, and who wouldn't take that deal?
As for the Panthers, they're now $9.5 million under the cap, but they're still without a safety, and with Ken Hamlin off the market, it's draft or nothing for Carolina at safety. If Marty Hurney has a draft plan, he's keeping it a mystery -- just like Chris Carter did with that whole X-Files alien conspiracy. Seriously, did anyone ever figure out what was really going on there?
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Whatever Marty is doing I hope he has a plan because we need a few more players to contend in the NFC. Minter is a class act he has been a leader for this organization and I'm glad he is willing to take a pay cut to benefit his team.