by Jayson Schmidt, PreseasonRecently, I found myself driving through a construction zone on I-95. Or rather, crawling.The traffic was moving as slowly as the seemingly endless highway construction projects these days. When you’re used to a sea of brake lights and reflective barrels, you tend …
20 Helpful Ideas to Make a Big Recruiting Splash This Fall
by Paul Nemetz-Carlson, Tudor Collegiate StrategiesOur research consistently tells us that recruits prefer to receive their information and ideas in small doses. They like to process one topic at a time because it helps them absorb it, see the value, and retain it better. I know busy …
Getting Alumni to Tell Your Program’s Recruiting Story
by Greg Carroll, Tudor Collegiate StrategiesIt goes without saying that the pandemic of 2020 forced us into new habits and new routines and the loss of behaviors that had become second nature. If we’re going to be totally honest, some of those behaviors and habits should have been put to the …
Two Easy Ways to Increase Your First Email Response Rates
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies One of the most frustrating things in recruiting is when you reach out to some new recruits for your next class with an email you spent a long time crafting, and no one responds. Or maybe a few do, but not nearly as many as you would have liked. This …
What Your Top Recruits Need to Hear Before They’ll Commit
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies If you want your team to get better, you have two options: Get better at developing athletes, or recruit better athletes to your program Most coaches do a combination of both, of course. But what does it take in order to accomplish option number …