NC State Football
NC State Football Players Can Earn a Minimum of $25k Through Pack of Wolves NIL Collective in 2023
On Monday, news broke that the Pack of Wolves NIL Collective is guaranteeing that NC State scholarship Football players will have the opportunity to make a minimum of $25k in 2023.
Pack of Wolves NIL Collective today announced a strategic move to ensure that N.C. State football student–athletes can remain competitive in the NIL landscape. The program, called “Leading the Pack,“ creates opportunities for these student–athletes to engage in NIL activities in the community this next calendar year, where they could earn a minimum of $25,000 based upon an individual analysis of the NIL value that each student–athlete brings.
“We sought to create an enhanced NIL organization with a high standard of trust and accountability that honors N.C. State’s excellence,“ said Charlie Stallings, chairman of the board for Pack of Wolves collective. “We have worked hard to pair businesses, brands, and local charities with N.C. State football student–athletes. This behind–the–scenes work has brought us to the point where we can make this significant commitment today. Football student–athletes will go out into the community monthly with the opportunity to earn $25,000 or more annually. These engagements can be charitable appearances working with youth in the community, partnering with the businesses or brands who have contributed, and more.“
“We are excited about the continued expansion of Name, Image, and Likeness opportunities available to N.C. State student–athletes,“ said Dave Doeren, N.C. State football coach. “We are particularly proud that they can use their platform to impact the greater North Carolina community and its philanthropic organizations.“
Several local charities have already signed on to participate, including Gigi’s Playhouse of Raleigh, N.C., the Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County, Dress for Success Triangle N.C., The Harrelson Center of Wilmington, N.C., SAFEchild, and the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. (Link)
The ‘Leading the Pack’ program is similar to one at Texas Tech, where 100 team members were guaranteed $25k annually.
It is timely for this announcement to come out when it did, because on December 5th, the Transfer Portal officially opens.
What about basketball players, and other athletes?
UNC seemingly paid hundreds of thousands to return a supposed championship basketball team. We’ll see how that work out for them. In some ways, it puts a lot of added pressure on players as well as coaches.
I thought the idea of NIL was to compensate athletes for the use of their NIL? This seems to require a time commitment, not that athletes wouldn’t be interested or shouldn’t be but I didn’t think there had to be a quid pro quo. Time is the one thing they don’t have a lot of, at least during the school year.
$25,000 per hour!
Glad to see us doing what we can to stay competitive. I wonder if these numbers keep going up as schools try to out-do each other.
Good question. I also wonder, are there bidding wars for the best players? And is $25k at, or near, the P5 average?
25K is the ‘minimum’ so I would expect starters will be getting more. How much maybe its better we don’t know.