Full disclosure:The vast majority of the time, I will tell a coach I am against group visit recruiting days.I've seen more go wrong with them than I have seen go right. Honestly, more disaster stories have originated from large campus recruiting visit days than most other parts of the …
Eggs, Soap and the Recruiting Myths You Choose to Believe
Remember when eating eggs was going to send you to an early grave? Think again. And how you’d better be using anti-bacterial soap if you wanted to really, really, really clean your hands? Yeah, not so much. Those are just two of a long list of things that were once accepted as scientific truth, …
Why Recruiters Need to Look at Their Sliced Bread Differently
As we've started this new year, I'm observing an interesting paradox:I'm honored to get to work one-on-one with a selection of scrappy, never-say-die, highly intelligent coaches who are taking the approach that they can beat anybody - any coach, any program - for some of the top-tier recruits …
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Effective Recruiting as an Outsider
Politics offers some fascinating lessons for observant college coaches looking for lessons from the real world on how to effectively recruit their prospects.After all, what is Presidential campaigning if not recruiting a few million votes from your fellow countrymen and women?The …
Political Debates and Your Prospect’s Vote
As the 2015 Presidential primary season started heating up, one of the largest - and, to date, most watched - candidate debates took place. It featured 16 men and women running for the Republican nomination.And while I don't want to parse the political messages that each candidate brought to …