College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we sat down to talk with Kyle Ferguson, Athletic Director at Fresno Pacific University about his interesting doctoral dissertation project that goes right to the heart of everything we talk about here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies:

How this generation of college prospect makes his or her decision.

Kyle discusses why he wanted to do that research, what his findings were, and how it should change the approach college athletic departments - and their friends in admissions across campus - should adjust the way they communicate with recruits.

To reach Kyle to connect or ask follow-up questions you might have, email him at [email protected]

To contact Dan Tudor, email him at [email protected].

Thanks for listening, Coach!

On this episode, join host Dan Tudor as he drives back to the airport after leaving a client meeting with a coaching staff who works one-on-one with the experts at Tudor Collegiate Strategies.

Dan talks about a topic that prompted a question from the coach, which centers around the idea of recruiting, messaging and telling the program's story to your entire prospect list right from the start - not just the top prospects, but everyone.

- Why full recruiting is imperative.

- How to execute it the right way.

- Going deep with your messages, when it comes to content and ideas.

- Going wide with your message by spreading it out over the entire recruiting process, start to finish.

- What happens when you don't.

This is an important core communication message for coaches in all sports, at all levels. Listen, take notes, and tell your fellow coaches on your campus to follow, subscribe and listen too!

To contact the host, email him at [email protected].

And don't forget to leave us a five start review on your favorite podcast platform, Coach! Have a great week.

How can you take your prospects through the different levels of increasing interest as you spend time in the recruiting process?

That's a question that Dan Tudor addressed while he was on a campus working with an athletic department, and he shares what today's recruits tell his staff at Tudor Collegiate Strategies when it comes to what keeps them moving forward, and how they slowly build a 'feeling based' decision that grows into a 'logically justified' decision. And, why that transition has to be managed by the coaches recruiting the athlete.

Want to watch this presentation in addition to listening to it? Go here:

https://dantudor.substack.com/p/ascending-recruiting-levels-by-managing

Contact the host at [email protected] to bring him and his staff to campus, or have them work one-on-one with your program to help take a systemized approach to executing your recruiting communication plan.

Thanks for listening, Coach! Tell 50 other coaches on campus about the podcast, and make sure to rate and follow the show.

On this episode, we're joined by Heart of America Athletic Conference Commissioner, Nik Rule, opens up about a post on X that has gotten a lot of attention because of it's frank, unfiltered assessment of many college athletic departments around the country.

You can read the post here:

https://x.com/NikRule/status/2094613895335833706

So, what's the future for college athletics?

How will college athletic departments deal with the ever changing world of money, deficits and the cost to do business?

And, what does all of this have to do with building programs and recruiting athletes?

Dan Tudor leads this fascinating conversation in this episode.

Follow Nik Rule on X at @NikRule for more insights on the evolving future of college sports.

And, follow Dan Tudor on X at @dantudor.

Email us at dan @ dantudor.com.

Thanks for listening, and make sure to follow and subscribe to the podcast, Coach!

Coaches work hard to get to the end of the process when the prospects they really want might be ready to commit.

But what's the right way to ask that big question? More importantly, what are some of the ways coaches are trying to get commitments that often don't work, and result in a loss of that prospect they've worked so hard for?

On today's episode, Dan Tudor talks about recent conversations he has had with coaches about this topic, what they tend to end up doing that hurts their chances of getting their prospect to say yes, and some proven ideas on what to do instead.

Questions about Tudor Collegiate Strategies, or have questions about a specific situation you'd want to talk to us about? Email us at [email protected].

Thanks for listening, Coach!

On the season premier of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we start off this year's show - and your new year of building a program - with culture guru and former college coach Theresa "Tree" Beeckman.

Her new book, "Win Deep", talks about how coaches can help their teams develop solid, positive culture through using her Tree Roots Team Culture Model. It builds on decades of experience that Coach Beeckman has used in helping programs understand, build and maintain winning cultures, something every coach at every level aims to do each year.

For more information on the book, and how Tree can help you and your program, go here:

Website: https://winningdeep.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TreeRootsCoaching/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treerootsculture/

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@treerootsculture?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-beeckman-54673231

To contact the host of the show, and to find out how Tudor Collegiate Strategies can help you recruit the athletes to build a winning culture around, email [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

You're done recruiting - maybe even earlier than you thought! - and now the big questions are...

- What do I do now?

- What's my message to this class of commits?

- How can I make sure they stay committed?

- What's the best way to integrate my team with this new group, and start to engrain them into our team culture?

Those were the questions one of our clients talked with us about, and we're going to let you listen in to hear our advice, and what we've seen work best around the country for the programs we help in their recruiting and roster building.

Want more info on the work we do with coaching staffs and athletic departments around the country, and how we can help you recruiting and build your program more effectively? Visit dantudor.com/total-recruiting-solution

To reach out and connect with Dan, email him at [email protected].

Thanks for listening, Coach!

On today's episode, Dan Tudor talks one-on-one with Bill Carter, the founder of NIL Forum and a university professor who specializes in understanding NIL and it's role in college athletics.

In the conversation, Bill and Dan talk about:

- The impact on NIL on college recruiting

- What's gone wrong, and what's gone right

- How will NIL look in the years to come?

- Why NIL will continue to change recruiting

To follow Bill Carter, or to contact him, connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/billcarternil.

Questions for Dan Tudor? Follow him on LinkedIn, X, and other social media. Visit dantudor.com, and email him at [email protected].

Thanks for listening, Coach!

On this episode, we talk to Bob Stocking, who is going to teach you something you probably didn't know you needed to know how to do:

Asking the right questions of your prospects, and making sure you answer them in a way that communicates what you want, and why they should ultimately cho0se your campus.

Bob is one of the lead trainers at Enliven Work, and internationally respected communication firm working with some of the top companies around the world. He teaches professionals the right way to ask questions, and the best way to answer them. This revolutionary training helps co-workers communicate more effectively, and also increases the connection that a staff can have with people they sell to and create professional relationships with.

This training applies directly to what you do on a daily basis with your fellow admissions professionals, as well as the prospects you talk to regularly.

To contact our guest, Bob Stocking, and to ask questions or inquire about how his firm can work with your admissions department, email him at [email protected].

To see more information on the process they teach, visit the Precision Q+A page at https://enlivenwork.com/precisionqa/.

The company website is at https://enlivenwork.com/

To reach Tudor Collegiate Strategies and our host, Dan Tudor, email him at [email protected]. And, make sure to visit our admissions recruiting resource site at MondayMorningAdmissions.com

Thanks for listening!

Do coaches create their culture? Or, does their culture dictate the actions by the coach?

Every college coach and recruiter struggles with that idea, as well as the basic how-to aspect of defining, developing and fostering the right culture for his or her program. The culture topic is one of the most popular aspects of discussion around the idea of building a college program today, so we wanted to bring a coach on who has done a lot of thinking, and writing, on the topic.

Chad Gunnelson is the head track and field coach for Augustana College, a thriving Division III program in Illinois. Coach Gunnelson has build strong programs wherever he's gone, and today he'll share how developing the right culture is Priority #1 for him and his success, as it should be for you, too.

To learn more about Chad Gunnelson, connect with him on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-gunnelson-mm-cscs-a16850b/

To learn more about Tudor Collegiate Strategies, or to contact Dan Tudor, email us at [email protected].

Thanks for listening, Coach!