It isn’t always about the money, Coach.Your athletes – the kids you are recruiting – will choose you even if you aren’t offering a full ride scholarship.I bring this up because I’ve had a string of e-mails and phone calls the past few weeks from coaches at schools I have had on-campus …
Is Your Competition Using This Training and Recruiting Tool?
The same technology used by Olympic trainers, Major League Baseball, the NFL and other professional athletes is now being used by a surprising number of college coaches.And they're not just using it to make their athletes better in competition. Coaches are using it to recruit athletes to their …
5 Ways to Create Your Unique Story
Whenever I go to lead one of our On-Campus Workshops for a college coach or athletic director, a big part of my job is helping them to develop their "story".I think stories are vital to the recruiting process. Now when I say "story", I'm not talking about something that has been made-up. I'm …
How to Find Out Who is REALLY Making the Final Decision
Let's jump straight to the point, Coach:When you hear mom and dad say something like, "Oh, our son/our daugther is going to make the decision on his own/her own. It's their decision. We'll support it no matter what he/she decides."Sound familiar?Here's the truth, Coach: Most of the …
How to Look Like a Million Bucks on a Small Budget
by Rodger Motiska, "Winning Recruits" Wake Forest basketball had a problem when it came to recruiting visits.The Men’s and Women’s teams play their games off campus at the Lawrence Joel Memorial Coliseum in downtown Winston-Salem (several miles from campus), which didn’t allow them …