It's vitally important to take your time and lead your prospects through the process of understanding why they should want to come to your school and compete for you as their coach.That involves persuasion.But along with that, it …
Three New Ways to Persuade Your Next Class of Prospects
You've scouted your recruit. You've made contact with your recruit.Now, you want to begin selling your recruit on the idea of coming to play for you and your program.And that involves persuasion.Persuasion isn't the act of "tricking" someone, and it doesn't mean twisting their arm until …
Featured Series: The ‘Miracle’ Behind Herb Brooks’s Miracle On Ice
by Charlie Adams, StokeTheFireWithin.comThe 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and their upset of the mighty Soviets on their way to Gold was named the greatest sports moment of the century. I will be writing regularly here on how coach Herb Brooks put together that team, his recruiting as a college …
How To Handle The Coaching Paparazzi
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comFor my first six years of coaching, I was an assistant. During that time I could hide behind the apron of the head coach.The exact micro-second I took over my own program things changed. I could no longer hide. Everything I did was magnified. …
The Video Solution for Coaching Beyond Your Practice
As more and more college coaches begin to use the inexpensive, easy-to-use Dartfish Express app for college coaches, there's another free teaching tool that more and more programs are using to coach their athletes even after practice is over.It's called Dartfish.tv, and it's revolutionizing how …