by Greg Carroll, Tudor Collegiate Strategies While I have never been professionally diagnosed as obsessive compulsive if you were to ask my family or anyone who has ever worked with me they’d tell you there are definite tendencies in how I operate. In most cases they come out relative to avoiding …
Recruiting from the Athletic Director’s Perspective
by Greg Carroll, Tudor Collegiate Strategies It’s pretty safe to say that during the course of my life there have been very few times where I put myself in a situation not knowing what the rules of the game were, how score was being kept, or what the stakes were if I didn’t win. Certainly not when …
4 Biggest Mistakes College Coaches Make
Courtesy NCSA Athletic RecruitingPart 1 of 2Nobody's perfect, but if you've been around college coaching long enough you've probably seen your fair share of college coaching mistakes that have ended - or at least hampered - an otherwise bright future in collegiate athletics.We're not …
Your Call-To-Action Gets Things Done
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comHere’s a fact — every time an athlete leaves a meeting, a practice, or a huddle without knowing exactly what to do, you’ve missed a chance at success.And you know what, you may never get that opportunity for success again.Coaches persuade. We …
You Get Hired To Get Fired
by Martin J. Greenberg and Steven D. Gruber, The Gamebreakers, LLCIn the college-coaching world, the current job environment can be summed up by the often-quoted adage “you get hired to get fired.” This notion has never been more accurate. Job security is essentially a misnomer, as coaches are …