What a time to be alive.
When Pack Insider first started in 2008, we were called Wolfpack Hoops, and we existed in a time when the only people doing recruit videos were the paysites (Scout and Rivals) and the national mixtape channels on YoutTube. We, two recent State grads, decided we were going to bridge the gap. We were going to create a free NC State basketball site and cover recruiting ourselves, posting edited highlight reels of NC State recruits on YouTube, without a paywall. After a few months of reporting on recruits, we put a ‘Paypal Donate’ button on our site and sort of jokingly asked our readers to raise enough money for us to fly out to LA and film a summer camp that had NC State commit Ryan Harrow, teamed up with State targets Luke Cothron and Will Barton.