Looking for some great "open ended" questions to jump start your recruiting conversations with athletes in the coming months? Try these...adapt them to your own situation...get your prospect talking to you instead of at you.Gather the information What prompted you to consider our program? What …
“Hard Work” Pays Off
...for Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis.A star assistant coach for over a decade in the NFL, Weis has made a spectacular entrance into the college coaching ranks by leading Notre Dame to a great season.Part of the secret of his success: Bringing some of the same hard work …
The Value of Failure
Watching all of the college bowl games recently got me thinking about success. And failure.It's amazing how you tend to forget about a program's entire season when you're watching a bowl game. A team might be 9-3 coming into it, which is a great season in college football. But then a bad …
Why Don’t Coaches Blog?
Blogs are everywhere. Teenagers are reading them.So, coach...why don't you have your own blog?Here's the latest on college recruiting and the use of blogs to recruit students, courtesy of the Orlando Sentenal's Etan Horowitz. This is important, coach. Think about this and how it could …
Teaming Up for the Sale
I was working in my office early last week when the call came.It was a sales call.I get them all the time. No big deal. This one was from Michael at a software company, the name of which I didn't recognize. Apparently, I had agreed to a call at that time on that day to have him discuss how …