{"id":1934699,"date":"2026-09-23T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934699"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:32:11","slug":"nc-states-roster-budget-is-not-22-26m-as-the-athletic-suggested-heres-why-that-number-is-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934699","title":{"rendered":"NC State\u2019s Roster Budget is NOT $22-26M as \u2018The Athletic\u2019 Suggested. Here\u2019s Why That Number Is a Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, The Athletic&#8217;s Chris Vannini and his staff published one of the more ambitious pieces of college football reporting this season: an estimated roster spending range for every Power 4 program, built from months of conversations with people inside and outside each building. It&#8217;s a piece of journalism that you can&#8217;t fault. This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/23\/nc-states-roster-budget-is-not-22-26m-as-the-athletic-suggested-heres-why-that-number-is-a-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, The Athletic&#8217;s Chris Vannini and his staff published one of the more ambitious pieces of college football reporting this season: an estimated roster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934700,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934699\/revisions\/1934700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}