Washington fan providing NIL opportunities through camps

Scott Hedgcock is a longtime Washington fan. He was 12 when he attended his first UW game. His family owned season tickets form 1993 to 2001, and Hedgcock’s grandfather taught at the university.

Now he is finding a way to help out his beloved football program through name, image and likeness. He and Chase Skuza have established Montlake Players Camps LLC. The company is designed to give current Washington football players a chance to run profit off NIL by giving back to the community. It gives them real-world experience while helping them make a profit and give back to the community.

“So that was really the genesis of it,” Hedgcock told The Seattle Times. “It was really them leveraging relationships and us opening up the internship opportunity for folks and saying, ‘Hey, we are huge supporters of Husky football, and we have a lot of time we’d like to invest in helping these young men learn really basic stuff around business and finance.'”

The goal for Hedgcock is not to bankroll Washington’s roster, and he also has no intentions of trying to turn a profit for himself off of the venture.

“If there’s UW donors that are giving guys huge deals, great,” he told The Seattle Times. “That’s just not my niche or what I see us being able to fulfill through this.”

Success for the Washington players’ NIL camp

The Washington players decided to charge $65 for the camp and offered limited spots in the camp. As of May 22, 2022, they advertised that 94 people had signed up and only a few spots were left. The four current Washington football players involved in the camp this past weekend were Julius Irvin, Alex Cook, Sam Huard, and Dylan Morris. Those four players will split 90% of the revenue.

Hedgcock says that one of the players running the camp already wants to do clinics through the company as well. They are also looking to host an offensive line camp, which current offensive lineman Geirean Hatchett is taking charge of.