Large price tag attached to DEI's offer to Earnhardt Jr.

Per the article Fenway paid $60M for a minority share of Roush. So $55M sounds like a deal.
If the posters here pooled our money do you think we could make an offer?
 
big sr and jr fan here..

I'm starting to think that the best thing for Jr to do is to leave DEI, i think thats the best shot he has at winning championships.

Also, once Jr leaves, I think a lot of money leaves DEI and follows Jr, DEI might fall a apart.

But its a risk you take, if Teresa wants to run the company into the ground...let her...once its all said and done, he will probably gain control of DEI, either through this contract or when its ran into the ground and Teresa finally lets the Sr. children take the company and start things from scratch again.
 
I see DEI and RCR kinda going the way of HoF and Gibbs, or Ginn and Hendrick.
 
Curious as to how Sr. would have transitioned ownership of DEI to the kids if he was still around. Do you really think he would have asked them for $55 million? Jr. should say thanks but no thanks and go join Childress Racing. After a few years and a championship or two he'll have the money he needs to purchase DEI for a bargin basement price and bring it back to glory.
 
N2racin44 said:
Curious as to how Sr. would have transitioned ownership of DEI to the kids if he was still around. Do you really think he would have asked them for $55 million? Jr. should say thanks but no thanks and go join Childress Racing. After a few years and a championship or two he'll have the money he needs to purchase DEI for a bargin basement price and bring it back to glory.
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Between Kelly, Kerry, and Junior, im sure he would have just gave it to them.
 
Once again, I find it very funny how people who don't know the principles involved, continue to think that Teresa is a dumb blonde. Whether you like it or not, DEI was her baby and she made it what it is, not the Sr. Ironhead just fronted the company and let his wife run it. She did a damned good job not only for herself and Sr., but for the many people who have worked for the company and including Jr.

In my opinion, Jr, through is early business with Teresa and now on his own, believes that he has all the answers and can take that company to bigger and better places. Maybe and maybe not. There have been countless top dog drivers, some with championships under their belts that have thought the same thing and within a few years, found out that they didn't have the answer after all. I would really hate to see DEI fall flat either with or without Jr. but it would be even worse if it failed with Jr at the helm.
 
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is nowhere near signing a new contract with DEI.

Late last week ESPN.com reported that Teresa Earnhardt had offered Junior majority ownership of DEI, which is Little E's No. 1 contract demand. So a long-term agreement to keep Earnhardt behind the wheel of a Chevy owned by DEI must be near, right? In a word, no. Not even close, in fact.

I can't reveal any details about what's transpiring because all of my information was acquired in several off-the-record conversations, but suffice to say, based on these chats, I'm starting to think very strongly for the first time that Earnhardt won't be racing for DEI in 2008.

The bottom line is that his relationship with Teresa, his stepmother, is so profoundly complicated and -- what's the word? -- damaged that it may be impossible for her to fairly award Junior what I think is rightfully his, which I wrote about in the magazine last week. After all, his old man told me back in the fall of '00 that one day he wanted Little E to run the racing organization he founded in 1996. I think that day has arrived; it remains to be seen if Teresa really feels the same way.
 
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