by Mandy Green, Busy Coach A coach sent me a message recently asking... "How do you get over feeling guilty about not working on the weekends? I'm trying to take time to be with my family this weekend, but I get this sense of guilt because I'm not making progress on my recruiting. I feel like I …
15 Effective Ways to Recruit the Coaches of Your Prospects
It's no secret that the current high school and club coaches are holding more and more power over the recruiting process, especially since so many college coaches are being forced to keep up with their competition by going through those prep and club coaches to arrange conversations with younger and …
They Didn’t Pick Your School…Now What?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services3 minute readIt was looking/sounding like your school was one of their top choices, but in the end, they decided to go elsewhere. Now what? Should you just move on, or is it beneficial to try and figure out the why behind a student’s …
Determining If You Are a ‘Yo-Yo Recruiter’
by Mandy Green, Busy Coach By “Yo-Yo” I mean it is going up, it is going down, it’s going up, it’s going down, but it never really takes off. Maybe you’ve plateaued? Maybe you’ve hired a good new assistant and things get better for a little while, but then you lose that top recruit, that …
How to Handle the C’s
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies The athlete you would take on your team, but probably only if you miss on all of your top recruits. It is someone that might have some potential and might be a great character fit with your program. But, the talent just is not quite up to par. The …