A big tip of the hat to Noah Fleischman of The Wolfpacker, who FOIA’d NC State for information on how it is distributing its pool of $20.5 million in revenue sharing money to its programs. The allocations
are pretty standard as far as it goes, but these figures did help answer a few lingering questions for me.
The football program received $13.5 million to utilize as it saw fit, men’s basketball received $4 million, and women’s hoops received $1 million. Most schools are allocating based at least roughly on the percentage of athletics department revenue a sport brings in and make adjustments based on what they prioritize.
I had been wondering if perhaps NC State promised Will Wade an extra piece of the rev share pot to help entice him to take the job, because that would probably come at the expense of football’s budget. Not the case, though. (Which is a relief.) A significant chunk of the program’s roster budget must be coming from the booster side.
NC State’s football allocation is plenty competitive, as far as that goes—it’s the spending beyond what is officially available through the cap that is determining which programs are capable of assembling championship-caliber rosters. Go ahead and double that 13.5 number in your head for an estimate on what that costs. That’s the primary separator at this point.
