Are you a success, Coach?If you consider yourself to be, I'll bet that you count some of your past failures as your greatest learning events.But what about the coach who doesn't look at "failure" as a positive? Is there a way to look back on past struggles and turn them into future …
Student Recruitment Tiebreakers
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesIt’s that time of year again…you know, the time when students take to social media and share how stressed and confused they are about making a college decision. One student even joked on Twitter this past weekend, “I give up I think I'll make my …
Is a 40 Hour Work Week Possible?
Mandy Green, Busy.CoachI listened to a great podcast while on the elliptical this last week. It was Tony Robbins interviewing Tim Ferris about the greatest takeaways he got from writing his latest book Tools of Titans. One of the very first key lessons Ferris discusses is that to get …
Make Social Media Work For You
NCSACommunicating electronically seems to be getting more and more complicated.In addition to the shifting landscape of social media, rules like the NCAA’s “click, don’t type” rule are adding complexity to the way coaches and their prospects interact with each other.Based on watching the …
When To Make Fields Required On Your Recruiting Questionnaire
Neal Cook, Front RushAs a coach, you have many ways of acquiring and storing data from your recruits.One of the more popular, and effective ways of obtaining a recruit’s information is via a questionnaire that is placed on your athletic website. Once the recruit fills out that questionnaire, …