by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies A dilemma that many coaches face: how to send first contact messages to a lot of recruits at once while still making them sounds personalized. Personalization is so important! The message not sounding personal is one of the top reasons recruits say …
Talking About Losing With Your Prospects
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies One obstacle a lot of coaches face is convincing prospects to come to a program that has a history of losing. Maybe just the past two years have been rough. Or maybe for the last thirty years! For some coaches it is their own program that has had …
Preparing for the Visit-Less Commitment
by Paul Nemetz-Carlson, Tudor Collegiate Strategies A few years ago - in a conversation about recruiting - a Division I men’s hockey coach said to me, “we work really hard to get all of our kids to commit without a visit.” “You don’t want them to visit?” I asked. “Sure we do. Just not when …
Winning the Support of the High School and Club Coach
by Greg Carroll, Tudor Collegiate Strategies Who would have thought that just a few months ago we would be looking back at the days of spending three straight days in a crowded, overheated gym, sleeping in a budget hotel, eating bad food and competing with 100 other coaches for the affections of …
When YOU Aren’t Ready to Commit to Your Prospect
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies Most coaches want to figure out how to get top recruits to commit to their programs. But, there is another predicament that most coaches face with recruits that are not at the top of their list, and the coach still has their foot on the brakes when …