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College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

149 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings

We teach college coaches how to communicate and tell their program's story to prospect student-athletes more effectively, and discuss the trending topics around one of the most important behind-the-scenes aspects of college athletics: Recruiting.

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Episode 151: Season 8 Premier - The Theatre of Status in Recruiting

September 05, 2023 20:19 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

Welcome to the Season 8 premier of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast! On this show, we talk about three things that coaches need to remember to focus on as they start the recruiting process for this current class of prospects, and discuss "the theatre of status in recruiting" - what your athlete perceives, and believes, about you. And, how to better manage and define that for them. Join Dan Tudor as he discusses this next level idea with you, and make sure to subscribe to get all of thi...

Episode 150: Summer Recruiting & Planning for College Coaches

June 19, 2023 17:53 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

Coach, how's your summer recruiting going? More importantly: How is your summer planning going as you look ahead to the start of the fall? Both of those topics were brought up by the coach who is the guest on this podcast - he's a basketball coach who called and had questions about the summer, what or what not to do with visits, and planning for the new recruiting class as it relates to handling the volume of recruits that some programs deal with at the start of the process. If you need he...

Episode 149: Your (Mostly) Complete Guide to June 15th First Contact Calls & Messages

June 09, 2023 13:23 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB

On this episode, Dan Tudor talks in detail about the right kind of structure to build your June 15th or first contact calls and messages to new prospects around. June 15th, for many coaches and programs, has become the most important initial date of new contact with the next recruiting class, and because it's such a competitive start to the cycle, it's important coaches approach it correctly. This episode is a must-listen for coaches preparing to contact their next class of recruits. Quest...

Episode 148: How I Won My First National Championship: A Coach's Inside Look

May 12, 2023 12:57 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

What an incredible conversation we're bringing you on this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly Podcast! We talked to Coach Dan Buehring, Head Men's Volleyball Coach at Stevens Institute of Technology who - at the time of our conversation that you'll be listening to - had just won the Division III national title less than 48 hours earlier. With everything fresh on his mind, we sat down and talked with Coach Buehring about everything: How he was feeling, was it what he imagined it to be,...

Episode 147: Jim Harshaw on How Coaches Can Achieve Success Through Failure

May 05, 2023 21:32 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MB

On this episode we bring back a popular expert and former college wrestling champion, Jim Harshaw, the host of the popular "Success Through Failure" podcast. Jim was a guest way back in 2017 on Episode 18 of our podcast, and we brought him back to talk about what he's learned from 400 conversations about the topic on his podcast featuring athletes, coaches, executives and celebrities. He will outline key principles any coach can use to achieve through learning from failure, and will give y...

Episode 146: What Some Coaches May Not Know About Effective Recruiting Messaging

April 18, 2023 00:19 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB

On this week's episode, Dan Tudor outlines his thoughts on what makes effective recruiting messaging work, and how important it is for college coaches to understand how the medium you deliver the message through is vital to whether or not it's effective. Join Dan in his car right after he talked with two coaches on this topic, and learn what he told them, what mistakes they were making that many coaches also make, and how to supercharge your written communication plan with your recruits. Em...

Episode 145: Reinitiating Contact with Your Recruits

March 27, 2023 20:49 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

Have you ever had prospects you were really interested in, and previously communicating with, just drop off the face of the Earth? Stop replying to texts? Won't answer their phone? Of course you have. The big question to this all-to-common recruiting hurdle is, "how do you reinitiate contact and get things going again?" In this episode, Dan Tudor explains why this is likely happening, how to identify the right strategy moving forward, and how to execute that strategy. This could be a game...

Episode 144: Telling Your Recruiting Story to the Prospects You Really, Really Want

February 27, 2023 20:32 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB

In this episode, we listen in to part of Dan Tudor's two hour keynote talk at the USA Triathlon coaches convention, where he lays out the building blocks for constructing an effective recruiting message that tells the 'story' of your program. This generation of teenage prospects buy into marketing messages IF they buy into the story, and how they identify with it. The same process holds true when they make their recruiting decisions. In this 40 minute segment, Dan goes over exactly what to f...

Episode 143: Digging Into the Details of Effective Transfer Portal Recruiting

February 13, 2023 15:48 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB

The transfer portal has shaken up the college recruiting world, and the coaches who are trying to manage the process. So, how should coaches approach successfully implementing the transfer portal into their recruiting plan on a year to year basis? As a follow-up to Episode 139, where we listened into Dan Tudor's speech to coaches at a convention on the topic of "Maximizing Your Transfer Portal Recruiting", Dan joined Mandy Green's monthly 'Recruiting Made Simple' coaches group, which is a p...

Episode 142: The New Challenges for College Athletic Directors and the Programs They Lead

January 30, 2023 18:37 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

Want to get a peek inside what many college athletic directors are facing as we embark on a new athletic and recruiting year? On today's episode, we sit down with Jim Abbott, former athletic director at Oklahoma City University and the founder of "The Business of Small College Athletics" (BOSCA). Jim is passionate about helping athletic directors understand their role in helping to build programs, and using their influence to come alongside coaches who need support to build great individual ...

Episode 141: Developing a Specific Recruiting Approach for Specific Recruits

January 17, 2023 05:38 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

A coach contacted us with a question: How should I approach specific recruits deep into the process with a specific message and approach? And when should that happen? On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan Tudor walks a coach through different unique steps any program can take to determine what the right message might be for a recruit who is serious about them, as well as some good strategies we've seen work over the last twenty years of working with college athletic ...

Episode 140: A Better Outlook and a Better Brand to Start 2023

January 06, 2023 12:15 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

Happy New Year, Coach! As we start 2023, I thought it'd be good to talk about two things with you on this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast: Gaining a better outlook on your job as a college coach and recruiter, and developing a better personal brand that can help propel you through your career...and, help your recruits understand who you are in a more complete, more personal way. The man we've called on to help us do that to start the new year is former college coach, and ...

Episode 139: Maximizing Your Transfer Portal Recruiting

December 14, 2022 19:38 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

As a follow-up to Episode 138, Dan Tudor continues his series of recruiting talks at the 2022 U.S. Track and Field Coaches convention by giving an interesting and timely overview of how programs are using the NCAA Transfer Portal to build their programs. In addition, Dan outlines ways to prevent your own athletes from entering the portal through ongoing recruiting, communication and connection. Listen in as he does his talk in front of coaches in attendance, and afterwards make sure to subs...

Episode 138: 5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends in College Athletics

December 14, 2022 19:13 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

In this episode, we'll listen live to Dan Tudor as he presents his "5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends" talk at the 2022 U.S. Track and Field Coaches convention. Coming out of the pandemic, coaches have noticed something is different about the way prospects are going through the process, and making decisions. Why? And what do coaches need to do differently to account for the shift in perspectives and attitudes that their recruits are brining to the conversation? Listen in and find out! And, d...

Episode 137: Building a Program (or a Roster) From Scratch

December 06, 2022 05:20 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

What's the right way to approach building something from scratch? That's something that a lot of coaches who get the chance to do just that wonder about. And in this episode, we'll talk to one of those coaches. We let you in on a conversation Dan Tudor had with a coach who gets to start from scratch: What are the challenges? What are the typical mistakes they make? And, how should recruiters work smarter to achieve their goals? Listen in, and learn what our advice is for college recruiter...

Episode 136: The In's and Out's of International Recruiting in College Athletics

November 16, 2022 14:52 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

Are you a program that recruits international student-athletes? If you are, you're going to like this episode, featuring Dan Tudor talking about what he and Tudor Collegiate Strategies has learned about what works, and what doesn't, when it comes to international recruiting. Most importantly, Dan goes over the mindset of most international athletes that makes them different than their U.S. prospect counterparts. Make sure to subscribe to our podcast and give us a 5-star rating if you liked...

Episode 135: How to Overcome These Three Common Recruiting Hurdles

November 03, 2022 18:03 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB

In this episode, we try to answer three key questions asked to us by one of our clients: How do we separate ourselves from other schools in a prospect's Top 3 when they've already visited each campus? How do we not get dropped after just one phone call with a new prospect? How do we better control the timeline for the prospect? We answer those questions, and also talk to author, entrepreneur, former naval submarine officer and 2022 NCRC speaker Jon Rennie about how to motivate and direct ...

Episode 134: Establishing Recruiting Timelines and Deadlines in Less Than Ideal Circumstances

October 17, 2022 20:39 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

You want to establish effective timelines and deadlines in your recruiting efforts, but what if you're also operating in less than idea circumstances? Like multiple prospects that you become aware of all during the year? Or needing to meet a certain roster number? Or being a coach that's new, or one that is still in the rebuilding process? On this episode, listen in live as Dan Tudor walks through strategies with a new coach who wants to set a good foundation, but also has some hurdles to a...

Episode 133: Celeste Headlee on How to Have Conversations with Your Recruits

October 10, 2022 14:41 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to a very special guest, Celeste Headlee, on the topic of how to talk and have a conversation with the teenagers you are recruiting. (Turns out, a lot of us struggle with it!) Celeste Headlee made headlines when her TedTalk, "Ten Ways to Have Better Conversations", went viral and has been seen nearly 30 million times online. CNBC voted Celeste as having one of the most watched TED talks in 2016 and Glassdoor named Celeste a...

Episode 132: 4.5 Recruiting Sales Questions Answered

October 03, 2022 22:11 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

In this episode, Dan catches up with a previous guest, Jim Holvay, who uses his four decades of sales experience to answer four (and a half) common sales-related hurdles coaches tell us they regularly face. In this episode, Jim outlines why your personality doesn't have to dictate the sales and recruiting approach you take, why it's critical to be yourself in sales situations, how the Happy Birthday song saved his sales career, why he wants to be remembered as a professional who helped peop...

Episode 131: Overcoming Adversity and Rejection in Recruiting and Your Life as a Coach

September 23, 2022 11:04 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB

Do you ever feel like your life as a college coach is filled with non-stop adversity and challenge? And more importantly, are you feeling like it's starting to affect your personal and professional life in the form of negativity or even depression? On today's episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to former Division I football player Darryll Stinson. He overcame a career-ending injury, drug addiction, and even a suicide attempt earlier in his life. He used those challenges...

Episode 130: One Coach Asks, "How Would You Sell Our Program to Recruits?"

September 16, 2022 15:42 - 39 minutes - 36 MB

In this episode, Dan Tudor spends time on a drive talking about a question he got from a Division I coach who is a part of our text messaging group (sign-up for free at 661-218-2166!). The coach outlined some of their unique challenges, and then asks, "So how would you sell our program to Recruits?" Dan outlines a series of strategies that he feels would work well for them, and explains why the approach will work and outlines details on how to implement it in your own program. The webinar...

Episode 129: Timelines, Deadlines and Your Most Important Job as a Recruiter

September 08, 2022 22:39 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

In this episode, we take you inside a conversation we had with an athletic department we work with and one coach who asked about how to effectively establish timelines and set deadlines with prospects. Plus, we tie that back into what we feel is your most important job as a recruiter (do you know what it is?) To contact the host, email [email protected] Leave us a review, give us a bunch of stars, and tell 50 coaches to listen to our podcast!

Episode 128: Season 7 Premier - Branding & Social Media Expert Jayson Schmidt on Differentiating Your College Program

August 29, 2022 20:24 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

In our Season 7 premier episode, we talk to Jayson Schmidt, former coach and co-founder of the college program branding specialty firm, Preseason. Jayson goes in-depth on what's changing in social media, what he sees teams doing to stand out and differentiate themselves moving into the 2023 and 2024 recruiting classes, and the simple things coaches probably don't know they can do to begin to build a winning brand in the eyes of their recruits. For more information on how his company is work...

Episode 127: How Athletics & Admissions Can Message Effectively to Second-Tier Prospects

June 02, 2022 18:48 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to Loras College sports management professor Matt Garrett. He recently authored an extensive study on different aspects of NCAA Division III recruiting, specifically the messaging to prospects not identified as top recruits. He identifies problems in admissions and athletic departments, how coaches can play a larger role in better communication, and why all of this is essential for college campuses to understand as we head into...

Episode 126: The Walk-On Experience in College Athletics

May 09, 2022 15:06 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

What roles do walk-on student-athletes play in your program? And, are you maximizing their potential? On today's episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to author and former walk-0n college athlete John Willkom. He wrote "Walk-On Warrior", the story of his experience as a Division I basketball walk-0n at Marquette University, and how he used that opportunity to build a college sports career and springboard himself into a successful professional life. His insights on the exp...

Episode 125: Assessing the Mental State of Today's Athletes and Prospects

April 11, 2022 20:50 - 50 minutes - 46 MB

More and more, college coaches and recruiters are trying to uncover the mental state of their current student-athletes, as well as the prospects they are looking to bring into their programs. On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan Tudor talks with former D1 athlete and consultant to athletes Lauren Ammon. Lauren works with this generation of student-athletes to help them maximize their performance through better mental health, deal with the pressures of life as an athl...

Episode 124: Coach Evan Burk on Finding Intangibles

March 28, 2022 17:37 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

On today's episode, we talk to Coach Evan Burk about his new book, "Finding Intangibles" https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Intangibles-Uncover-Performers-Championship/dp/B09SP4394Z Coach Burk is a former college and NFL football coach (by the way, he never played high school or college football!) His fascination with what separates great teams from mediocre ones drove him to write this book that will force you to re-think the way you look for talent through recruiting. For more about the work...

Episode 123: How is NIL Affecting Recruiting at All Levels?

March 07, 2022 22:33 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB

NIL - Name, Image and Likeness - has taken root across the college athletics landscape, and now we're feeling the effects of this landmark change in the way college student-athletes fund their education and their lives. Joining us on this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast is Matt Brown, creator of the Extra Points website and column...those two great resources, and everything else you might want to know, is at https://www.extrapointsmb.com/. I recommend you take a look, Coach!...

Episode 122: Why Money-Based Recruiting Decisions Are Trending Up (and What to Do About It)

February 15, 2022 10:57 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

In case you haven't noticed, money - how much your college costs, what kind of scholarship you're going to give your prospect, and the affordability of your school - is a topic of conversation with your prospects that is trending up. Why? A bunch of factors that you have no control over: Growing inflation worries, job uncertainty, the financial impact of the pandemic, and just a general feeling that life (including college) is getting too expensive. In this episode of the College Recruiting...

Episode 121: BLM, Vaccines and Creating a Unique Team Story

February 01, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

How does your program address some of today's controversial, debated or topical news items? Today on the College Recruiting Podcast, we talk with a coach who has not only embraced an open dialogue with his team about those things, but has gone out of his way to make it part of their overall team personality. It defines who they are as a program for their team, and for their recruits. Some prospects may turn away, others may be attracted to Coach Gabe Bolton's women's soccer program at Calif...

Episode 120: The Captain - Recruiting and Developing Team Leaders

January 10, 2022 20:30 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we tackle the topic of recruiting and developing team leaders, and we're centering the conversation around the new book by coach Jamy Bechler. His latest work, "The Captain", is a fantastic resource for teams and coaches. It's a story about a superstar player who has to learn some hard but valuable lessons about what being a leader is all about. This is a GREAT resource for your entire team, and makes a great book for everyone in you...

Episode 119: Six Coaches, Six Questions

December 07, 2021 18:41 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

In this episode, join Dan Tudor in a live roundtable discussion with six tennis coaches before the speech he gave at the ITA tennis coaches convention in Las Vegas in early December, 2021. Topics that got talked about include how to differentiate your program from others in high level conferences, ways to manage a successful communication plan, expanding your recruiting geography, and more. It was a wide-ranging back and forth discussion for a little over an hour, so there's a lot of great ...

Episode 118: Assessing Your Prospect's Physical and Mental Health During Recruiting

November 24, 2021 20:32 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

It's a question more and more coaches are asking about: How do I spot potential underlying physical and mental health issues with the prospects I'm talking to? That's something our guest today has put a lot of though and research into. Vanessa Bogenholm is a popular personal trainer from California who works with rising athletes, and is the author of the book, "It's Your Body." She talks with Dan Tudor about what she's seeing - both the positives and the negatives - with this generation of...

Episode 117: 6.5 Recruiting Priorities for Coaches | Fall 2021

November 04, 2021 20:42 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

It's time to hear from Dan Tudor, one on one; He's got a lot of new information for coaches in this episode, focusing on everything from why you need to give the parents of your recruits reasons to NOT choose your competitor (without engaging in negative recruiting) to the difference between scouting and recruiting...plus a whole lot more (o.k., technically. just 4.5 more things, but it'll seem like a lot more when you hear what he has to say). It's a good one, Coach! Take a listen, and if ...

Episode 116: Defining You and Your Program to Achieve Excellence

October 11, 2021 16:26 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

How can coaches build a truly excellent program? By defining what 'excellence' is. That's what today's guest would make the case for: Giancarlo Lemmi is the Associate Head Coach for Liberty University women's tennis, and has helped the program amass over 100 wins since 2012. In the process of his coaching work at the university, Lemmi has advocated for coaches to become better at defining their vision for their careers and programs, and the working towards achieving that vision. As a by prod...

Episode 115: Assessing & Developing Your College Program the Right Way

September 27, 2021 19:47 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

So many things can derail an otherwise smart, successful, competent coach on his or her way to building a great program. That's what today's show features: A conversation with a college coach who wants to be proactive in recognizing where he can do better when it comes to controlling the direction of his program, and then taking action. This isn't a story about putting out fires and rebuilding, but one of making sure things keep going the right direction all the way through the process. We ...

Episode 114: Program Building Lessons From a Former Cold War Nuclear Submariner

September 03, 2021 18:37 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

It's the big Season 6 premier of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, and we're not wasting any time bringing you one of the most interesting guests we've ever talked to: Jon S. Rennie, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and former nuclear submarine officer during the Cold Way. We talk about Rennie's new book, "All In the Same Boat: Lead Your Organization Like a Nuclear Submariner" as well as the lessons he learned that you can apply to building your program on your campus. This is a great e...

Episode 113: 3 Additional Recruiting Strategies for After Your First Contact

June 21, 2021 19:35 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

On this episode of the podcast, join Dan Tudor for a 30 minute "Driving with Dan" talk that centers around a big question we've been getting after first contacts with new recruits are done: "What else should I be doing???" Dan will outline three important, but often overlooked, strategies that will be great as immediately follow-ups to that first conversation or two you have with new recruits. The earlier you implement these three tips, the better your chances for long term recruiting succ...

Episode 112: The Experts Recruiting Roundtable

June 08, 2021 11:36 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

On this episode of the college recruiting weekly podcast, we turn to our team of experts here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies to talk about what coaches learned over the past year, and what new trends they see emerging as we head into 2021-2022. Our panel: Dan Tudor @dantudor Mandy Green @mandygreenCPS Dan Christensen @recruitwithdan Greg Carroll @carrollgm Paul Nemetz-Carlson @PNC_777 Bryan Mathews @CoachMathews22 Follow these experts on Twitter, and contact the host, Dan Tudor, with any qu...

Episode 111: Coach Theresa Beeckman on Managing Your Culture

May 24, 2021 16:10 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

On today's episode, we'll talk with consultant, author and workshop leader about her new book, 'Managing Your Culture', and how intentionally creating your team's culture will help you perform - and recruit - more effectively. If you're trying to build a specific culture within your program, this episode will help you understand this generation much better, and let you develop a plan that works. Beeckman is the founder of Tree Roots Culture Consulting, and has worked with programs around th...

Coach Gabe Bolton on Building a Successful Program Your Own Way

April 30, 2021 20:59 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

Frank Sinatra sang it loudly: "I did it my way!" And just like Frank, there are college coaches out there who get creative, buck the trends, and build their programs using their instincts and experience as a guide. Coach Gabe Bolton is one of those coaches. He is the longtime women's soccer head coach at California State University, Stanislaus, a successful Division II program in central California. Over the years, he's used some unorthodox methods to build a winner, and create a life for h...

Episode 109: John Brubaker On How College Coaches Can Go Beyond Stadium Status

April 08, 2021 18:38 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

Coach, how do you take your college program - and your coaching career - "beyond stadium status"? And, what does that even mean? Former college coach and current author, speaker and consultant talks about his latest book, "Beyond Stadium Status", and the lessons it has for coaches who want to creatively and consistently build their program and their career into something worth remembering. Coach Bru takes lessons from the world of business, music and more to get college recruiters to think...

Episode 108: Are College Athletic Departments Ready for NIL?

March 19, 2021 21:54 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB

In this episode, we talk with journalist Andy Wittry, creator of the popular Out of Bounds online column focusing on issues surrounding college athletics, about the upcoming Name/Image/Likeness (NIL) initiative that will allow student-athletes to profit commercially during their time as a college athlete. The question we ask Wittry, who has done extensive research on the topic and how different athletic departments are preparing to handle it, to try and answer the question, "are college athl...

Episode 107: What Should Coaches Do When They Get Too Many Responses?

March 01, 2021 21:30 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

Talk about a good problem to have! On today's episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan Tudor talks with a coach who has implemented what she has learned by reading and listening to the resources provided by Tudor Collegiate Strategies. The result? She has too many responses, and not enough time to handle all of them. What should she do? How does she make sure she doesn't overlook great prospects? And, how can she create an efficient system for handling it all? Those are the qu...

Episode 106: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Letters Work

February 16, 2021 00:16 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

In part two of this two part series on effective messaging, Dan Tudor continues his "Driving with Dan" conversation - building on the previous episode's focus on the right way to email with recruits - by talking about letters: How to use them, what should be said in them, and why they're more effective than ever. Questions? Email Dan at [email protected]. And visit our sponsor, LegendRings.com! They offer amazing deals for college coaches and athletic departments around the country.

Episode 105: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Emails Work

February 08, 2021 22:31 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

Buckle up, Coach: It's a return edition of "Driving with Dan"! On his way to work at a college campus with a group of clients, recruiting expert Dan Tudor talks about what the latest research shows when it comes to what prospects want in the recruiting emails you send them, and how to make the language you use more effective and engaging. It's part one of a two part series on better messaging we're putting together for you in an effort to make sure every coach who listens to the College Re...

Episode 104: Coach Justin Wickard on Recruiting This Generation of Student-Athlete

January 25, 2021 21:26 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

We've got a little insider info for you on today's episode. Coach Justin Wickard is a former Division I track and field coach, with successful stops at Louisiana Tech, Texas Christian University and the Air Force Academy. He's recruited at a high level, and knows what you go through. Recently, he made the switch and left college athletics for a chance to form his own training company that works with younger athletes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who have the goal of someday competing at the...

Episode 103: What to Change for Your 2021 Recruiting Plan

January 12, 2021 14:05 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MB

Coach, Happy New Year! What needs to change in your recruiting plan as we get into 2021? That was the subject of a recent webinar we did for about 300 coaches from around the country, and because they said it made a huge impact in the way that they'll approach this current recruiting class, we wanted to share it with our College Recruiting Weekly podcast listeners. It features six major areas of focus for coaches, as well as two big things to rethink as we head into another challenging year...

Episode 102: Jeremy Tiers & Will Patch on the Class of 2021 College Search Process Study

December 22, 2020 13:32 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

Do you know how the Class of 2021 - and many future classes you're recruiting - will be making their final decision? On today's episode, we're joined by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services for Tudor Collegiate Strategies, and Will Patch, Enrollment Marketing Expert from Niche.com. The two organizations teamed up on a groundbreaking study into how the class of 2021 is going through their decision making process in the middle of the pandemic. The findings are fascinating, and the dis...

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