College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

By Dan Tudor - Tudor Collegiate Strategies

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What's College Recruiting Weekly Podcast about?

We teach college coaches how to communicate and tell their program's story to prospect student-athletes more effectively, and discuss the trending topics around one of the most important behind-the-scenes aspects of college athletics: Recruiting.

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College Recruiting Weekly Podcast episodes:

06.01.2024
Episode 172: NIL Money in College Athletics - Is Everything Adding Up?
As we enter a new phase of NIL money in college sports, and athletes receiving more and more share of the revenue, we wanted to ask an important question: Is all of this going to add up? In other words, will...
05.27.2024
Episode 171: How the NIL Marketplace Continues to Creatively Evolve
It's vital that college coaches at all levels continue to understand how the Name/Image/Likeness landscape is changing on an ongoing basis. Today's show is an example of that evolution and change. Mike Ross is the founder of ConNEXTions, a non-profit that helps...
05.13.2024
Episode 170: The First 5 Things You Should Do to Improve Your Campus Recruiting Visits
On this episode, we're helping you get ready to revamp your upcoming year of on-campus recruiting visits with a Top 5 primer on what matters first as you redesign your approach. We cover just a few of the things we wrote...
04.22.2024
Episode 169: How to Maximize Your Athlete's Mental Performance
Ceci Clark is the Director of Mental Performance & Life Skills Education for the Philadelphia Phillies, helping their major league players and rising prospects increase their ability to maximize their mental performance just as they would their physical performance. In this...
04.08.2024
Episode 168: 7 Big Mistakes Coaches Make on Zoom and Phone Recruiting Calls
On this episode, listen in as Dan Tudor delivers a featured presentation for women's college basketball coaches at their 2024 Final Four convention in Cleveland. So many coaches are relying on Zoom and traditional phone calls to connect with prospects, and...
03.25.2024
Episode 167: NIL - Is It Working, and What Does the Future Look Like?
In this episode, we talk with Greg Dooley, a professor at the University of Michigan who is quickly becoming regarded as one of the leading thinkers when it comes to Name, Image and Likeness, the future of the NCAA, and...
03.11.2024
Episode 166: Pushing Back on Your Prospect's Push Back
There are several common instances that college recruiters at all level face some very common, very challenging 'push back' questions from their prospects. You know the ones: Things are going nicely, everything's on schedule, and then your prospects pushes back on...
02.20.2024
Episode 165: What You Should Do After You Hear a Prospect Say "No"
Think hearing a 'no' from a prospect at the end of the process is the end of the game? Wrong. In the age of the decommitments and the transfer portal, the game never ends. That prospect might be back in play in...
01.22.2024
Episode 164: What Is Your Mid-Year Recruiting Focus?
On this episode, four of our resident experts at Tudor Collegiate Strategies join the show to talk about a poll we just did, asking coaches what their priorities were for recruiting now that we've reached the midway point in the...
01.12.2024
Episode 163: Hitting Your Personal, Professional & Recruiting Bullseye
What a great episode we have for you! We're joined by former college and pro athlete, author and entrepreneur John Nicholas, creator of "Hitting Your Bullseye", a guide created for anyone wanting to achieve their goals, whether they are personal or...
01.08.2024
Episode 162: The Need for Physical Mail in Recruiting
Are you thinking about ditching physical, hard copy mail like letters in your recruiting? Think again. Our research shows that coaches who incorporate physical mail into their recruiting process have much better success compared to coaches who don't. Why? Listen to the...
12.10.2023
Episode 161: Halftime Check In - What's Going Right & What's Going Wrong in Your Recruiting?
Midway through your recruiting class you're working on, here's the question: How's it going? Just like a team going back to the locker room and assessing the game midway through, we talk to a coach about what's going right, what's going wrong,...
12.04.2023
Episode 160: How Successful Coaches Approach Recruiting This Generation of Prospects
Fascinating, in-depth discussion on this episode! Dan Tudor joins Kebba Tolbert, Assistant Track and Field Coach at Harvard University and a group of coaches he leads regularly in coaching and program development conversations. The topic? Recruiting, and how successful coaches and...
11.20.2023
Episode 159: Coaching & Recruiting Lessons From Ted Lasso
If you've watched it, and you're a college coach, you probably love Ted Lasso. The AppleTV series was a huge hit, mainly because of its cast of characters lead by actor Jason Sudekis' portrayal of an American football coach being hired...
11.09.2023
Episode 158: The Four Biggest Recruiting Frustrations for College Coaches (and How to Overcome Them)
On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, three of our resident experts here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies team up to talk about a recent coaches' poll that revealed their four biggest frustrations, and which ones presented the biggest...
11.03.2023
Episode 157: Moving Your Prospect Through Your Process
It's that time of year - you're trying to close out one recruiting class, and ramp-up activity with another one. The challenge: How to keep the forward progress going with a variety of prospects. In this episode, listen in as Dan...
10.27.2023
Episode 156: Molly Grisham on Developing Your Student-Athletes AFTER You Recruit Them
Do you have a plan to develop your recruited student-athletes into not only better competitors, but better people? If the answer is no, Molly Grisham wants to help you. She works with athletes, coaches and programs around the country at all levels,...
10.16.2023
Episode 155: Why Are My Prospects Taking So Long to Commit?
"Why are my prospects taking so long to commit???" What college coach hasn't said that at least once every recruiting year? And yet, without an answer to that question - and a plan to overcome the problem - your program...
09.30.2023
Episode 154: The Secret to Closing Top Prospects
Ever feel like it's harder than ever to close your top prospects? You're not alone! The competition for the best talent has never been more intense, which is why we're letting you listen in on a recent conversation Dan Tudor had...
09.22.2023
Episode 153: Inside the Mind of Today's Teenage Prospect
If you coach college sports, you've probably noticed that this generation you're recruiting and coaching is much, much different than the generations before it. They tend to need more direction. They are much more focused on their mental health. And, for...
09.18.2023
Episode 152: Campus Visits, Transfer Culture & More
On this episode, we'll take you inside a conversation Dan Tudor had with Joanna Lane from "The Dirt Podcast", the podcast from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, which serves college softball coaches around the country. Dan talks about campus visits, how...
09.05.2023
Episode 151: Season 8 Premier - The Theatre of Status in Recruiting
Welcome to the Season 8 premier of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast! On this show, we talk about three things that coaches need to remember to focus on as they start the recruiting process for this current class of prospects, and...
06.19.2023
Episode 150: Summer Recruiting & Planning for College Coaches
Coach, how's your summer recruiting going? More importantly: How is your summer planning going as you look ahead to the start of the fall? Both of those topics were brought up by the coach who is the guest on this podcast -...
06.09.2023
Episode 149: Your (Mostly) Complete Guide to June 15th First Contact Calls & Messages
On this episode, Dan Tudor talks in detail about the right kind of structure to build your June 15th or first contact calls and messages to new prospects around. June 15th, for many coaches and programs, has become the most important...
05.12.2023
Episode 148: How I Won My First National Championship: A Coach's Inside Look
What an incredible conversation we're bringing you on this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly Podcast! We talked to Coach Dan Buehring, Head Men's Volleyball Coach at Stevens Institute of Technology who - at the time of our conversation that you'll...
05.05.2023
Episode 147: Jim Harshaw on How Coaches Can Achieve Success Through Failure
On this episode we bring back a popular expert and former college wrestling champion, Jim Harshaw, the host of the popular "Success Through Failure" podcast. Jim was a guest way back in 2017 on Episode 18 of our podcast, and we...
04.18.2023
Episode 146: What Some Coaches May Not Know About Effective Recruiting Messaging
On this week's episode, Dan Tudor outlines his thoughts on what makes effective recruiting messaging work, and how important it is for college coaches to understand how the medium you deliver the message through is vital to whether or not...
03.27.2023
Episode 145: Reinitiating Contact with Your Recruits
Have you ever had prospects you were really interested in, and previously communicating with, just drop off the face of the Earth? Stop replying to texts? Won't answer their phone? Of course you have. The big question to this all-to-common recruiting hurdle...
02.27.2023
Episode 144: Telling Your Recruiting Story to the Prospects You Really, Really Want
In this episode, we listen in to part of Dan Tudor's two hour keynote talk at the USA Triathlon coaches convention, where he lays out the building blocks for constructing an effective recruiting message that tells the 'story' of your...
02.13.2023
Episode 143: Digging Into the Details of Effective Transfer Portal Recruiting
The transfer portal has shaken up the college recruiting world, and the coaches who are trying to manage the process. So, how should coaches approach successfully implementing the transfer portal into their recruiting plan on a year to year basis? As a...
01.30.2023
Episode 142: The New Challenges for College Athletic Directors and the Programs They Lead
Want to get a peek inside what many college athletic directors are facing as we embark on a new athletic and recruiting year? On today's episode, we sit down with Jim Abbott, former athletic director at Oklahoma City University and the...
01.17.2023
Episode 141: Developing a Specific Recruiting Approach for Specific Recruits
A coach contacted us with a question: How should I approach specific recruits deep into the process with a specific message and approach? And when should that happen? On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan Tudor walks a coach...
01.06.2023
Episode 140: A Better Outlook and a Better Brand to Start 2023
Happy New Year, Coach! As we start 2023, I thought it'd be good to talk about two things with you on this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast: Gaining a better outlook on your job as a college coach and...
12.14.2022
Episode 139: Maximizing Your Transfer Portal Recruiting
As a follow-up to Episode 138, Dan Tudor continues his series of recruiting talks at the 2022 U.S. Track and Field Coaches convention by giving an interesting and timely overview of how programs are using the NCAA Transfer Portal to...
12.14.2022
Episode 138: 5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends in College Athletics
In this episode, we'll listen live to Dan Tudor as he presents his "5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends" talk at the 2022 U.S. Track and Field Coaches convention. Coming out of the pandemic, coaches have noticed something is different about the way...
12.06.2022
Episode 137: Building a Program (or a Roster) From Scratch
What's the right way to approach building something from scratch? That's something that a lot of coaches who get the chance to do just that wonder about. And in this episode, we'll talk to one of those coaches. We let you...
11.16.2022
Episode 136: The In's and Out's of International Recruiting in College Athletics
Are you a program that recruits international student-athletes? If you are, you're going to like this episode, featuring Dan Tudor talking about what he and Tudor Collegiate Strategies has learned about what works, and what doesn't, when it comes to international...
11.03.2022
Episode 135: How to Overcome These Three Common Recruiting Hurdles
In this episode, we try to answer three key questions asked to us by one of our clients: How do we separate ourselves from other schools in a prospect's Top 3 when they've already visited each campus? How do we not get...
10.17.2022
Episode 134: Establishing Recruiting Timelines and Deadlines in Less Than Ideal Circumstances
You want to establish effective timelines and deadlines in your recruiting efforts, but what if you're also operating in less than idea circumstances? Like multiple prospects that you become aware of all during the year? Or needing to meet a certain...
10.10.2022
Episode 133: Celeste Headlee on How to Have Conversations with Your Recruits
On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to a very special guest, Celeste Headlee, on the topic of how to talk and have a conversation with the teenagers you are recruiting. (Turns out, a lot of us...
10.03.2022
Episode 132: 4.5 Recruiting Sales Questions Answered
In this episode, Dan catches up with a previous guest, Jim Holvay, who uses his four decades of sales experience to answer four (and a half) common sales-related hurdles coaches tell us they regularly face. In this episode, Jim outlines why...
09.23.2022
Episode 131: Overcoming Adversity and Rejection in Recruiting and Your Life as a Coach
Do you ever feel like your life as a college coach is filled with non-stop adversity and challenge? And more importantly, are you feeling like it's starting to affect your personal and professional life in the form of negativity or...
09.16.2022
Episode 130: One Coach Asks, "How Would You Sell Our Program to Recruits?"
In this episode, Dan Tudor spends time on a drive talking about a question he got from a Division I coach who is a part of our text messaging group (sign-up for free at 661-218-2166!). The coach outlined some of...
09.08.2022
Episode 129: Timelines, Deadlines and Your Most Important Job as a Recruiter
In this episode, we take you inside a conversation we had with an athletic department we work with and one coach who asked about how to effectively establish timelines and set deadlines with prospects. Plus, we tie that back into what...
08.29.2022
Episode 128: Season 7 Premier - Branding & Social Media Expert Jayson Schmidt on Differentiating Your College Program
In our Season 7 premier episode, we talk to Jayson Schmidt, former coach and co-founder of the college program branding specialty firm, Preseason. Jayson goes in-depth on what's changing in social media, what he sees teams doing to stand out and...
06.02.2022
Episode 127: How Athletics & Admissions Can Message Effectively to Second-Tier Prospects
On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to Loras College sports management professor Matt Garrett. He recently authored an extensive study on different aspects of NCAA Division III recruiting, specifically the messaging to prospects not identified...
05.09.2022
Episode 126: The Walk-On Experience in College Athletics
What roles do walk-on student-athletes play in your program? And, are you maximizing their potential? On today's episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to author and former walk-0n college athlete John Willkom. He wrote "Walk-On Warrior", the story...
04.11.2022
Episode 125: Assessing the Mental State of Today's Athletes and Prospects
More and more, college coaches and recruiters are trying to uncover the mental state of their current student-athletes, as well as the prospects they are looking to bring into their programs. On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan...
03.28.2022
Episode 124: Coach Evan Burk on Finding Intangibles
On today's episode, we talk to Coach Evan Burk about his new book, "Finding Intangibles" https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Intangibles-Uncover-Performers-Championship/dp/B09SP4394Z Coach Burk is a former college and NFL football coach (by the way, he never played high school or college football!) His fascination with what separates...
03.07.2022
Episode 123: How is NIL Affecting Recruiting at All Levels?
NIL - Name, Image and Likeness - has taken root across the college athletics landscape, and now we're feeling the effects of this landmark change in the way college student-athletes fund their education and their lives. Joining us on this episode...

What's College Recruiting Weekly Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

College Recruiting Weekly Podcast episodes:

Episode 172: NIL Money in College Athletics - Is Everything Adding Up?

Episode 171: How the NIL Marketplace Continues to Creatively Evolve

Episode 170: The First 5 Things You Should Do to Improve Your Campus Recruiting Visits

Episode 169: How to Maximize Your Athlete's Mental Performance

Episode 168: 7 Big Mistakes Coaches Make on Zoom and Phone Recruiting Calls

Episode 167: NIL - Is It Working, and What Does the Future Look Like?

Episode 166: Pushing Back on Your Prospect's Push Back

Episode 165: What You Should Do After You Hear a Prospect Say "No"

Episode 164: What Is Your Mid-Year Recruiting Focus?

Episode 163: Hitting Your Personal, Professional & Recruiting Bullseye

Episode 162: The Need for Physical Mail in Recruiting

Episode 161: Halftime Check In - What's Going Right & What's Going Wrong in Your Recruiting?

Episode 160: How Successful Coaches Approach Recruiting This Generation of Prospects

Episode 159: Coaching & Recruiting Lessons From Ted Lasso

Episode 158: The Four Biggest Recruiting Frustrations for College Coaches (and How to Overcome Them)

Episode 157: Moving Your Prospect Through Your Process

Episode 156: Molly Grisham on Developing Your Student-Athletes AFTER You Recruit Them

Episode 155: Why Are My Prospects Taking So Long to Commit?

Episode 154: The Secret to Closing Top Prospects

Episode 153: Inside the Mind of Today's Teenage Prospect

Episode 152: Campus Visits, Transfer Culture & More

Episode 151: Season 8 Premier - The Theatre of Status in Recruiting

Episode 150: Summer Recruiting & Planning for College Coaches

Episode 149: Your (Mostly) Complete Guide to June 15th First Contact Calls & Messages

Episode 148: How I Won My First National Championship: A Coach's Inside Look

Episode 147: Jim Harshaw on How Coaches Can Achieve Success Through Failure

Episode 146: What Some Coaches May Not Know About Effective Recruiting Messaging

Episode 145: Reinitiating Contact with Your Recruits

Episode 144: Telling Your Recruiting Story to the Prospects You Really, Really Want

Episode 143: Digging Into the Details of Effective Transfer Portal Recruiting

Episode 142: The New Challenges for College Athletic Directors and the Programs They Lead

Episode 141: Developing a Specific Recruiting Approach for Specific Recruits

Episode 140: A Better Outlook and a Better Brand to Start 2023

Episode 139: Maximizing Your Transfer Portal Recruiting

Episode 138: 5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends in College Athletics

Episode 137: Building a Program (or a Roster) From Scratch

Episode 136: The In's and Out's of International Recruiting in College Athletics

Episode 135: How to Overcome These Three Common Recruiting Hurdles

Episode 134: Establishing Recruiting Timelines and Deadlines in Less Than Ideal Circumstances

Episode 133: Celeste Headlee on How to Have Conversations with Your Recruits

Episode 132: 4.5 Recruiting Sales Questions Answered

Episode 131: Overcoming Adversity and Rejection in Recruiting and Your Life as a Coach

Episode 130: One Coach Asks, "How Would You Sell Our Program to Recruits?"

Episode 129: Timelines, Deadlines and Your Most Important Job as a Recruiter

Episode 128: Season 7 Premier - Branding & Social Media Expert Jayson Schmidt on Differentiating Your College Program

Episode 127: How Athletics & Admissions Can Message Effectively to Second-Tier Prospects

Episode 126: The Walk-On Experience in College Athletics

Episode 125: Assessing the Mental State of Today's Athletes and Prospects

Episode 124: Coach Evan Burk on Finding Intangibles

Episode 123: How is NIL Affecting Recruiting at All Levels?

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