College football's national signing day is becoming something of a national recruiting event. Not just for football programs, either. It really is becoming a day that can send ripples through an entire campus and an entire athletic department. As one Associate Athletic Director recently told me, …
NCAA Struggles to Police High-Tech Recruiting
It's an ongoing struggle for the NCAA to keep up with the newest, latest, most up-to-date ways that coaches are able to communicate with their prospects. It's a daunting task, as told in this great article by Tulsa World sports writer John Hoover: Technology, it seems, is limited only by the …
How to Know If Your Prospect Is Ready to Commit
One of our Premium Members had a quandry: They were pretty sure that a soccer recruit she had been recruiting for several months had finally made up her mind to sign with our Member's school. But she didn't want to "push" the athlete. She didn't want to make her prospect think she was "desperate" …
Insider Secrets to Getting Local TV News to Help You Build Your Program’s Reputation
"Most athletic departments really don't know how to go about getting local media attention in a way that would benefit their programs."That's the claim made by Charlie Adams, a former award-winning television sports director who spent most of his career covering the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in …
Our FREE Webinar: “13 Reasons Coaches Fail at Recruiting”
Selling for Coaches is very excited to announce the first in an ongoing series of fast-paced, educational training webinars for college coaches.Our first webinar is entitled "13 Reasons Coaches Fail at Recruiting". It takes place this Thursday, January 25th, at 1:00 P.M. EST (10 A.M. PST). …