College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

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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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Episode 151: Season 8 Premi...

09.05.2023

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, ...

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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
02.15.2022 Episode 122: Why Money-Based Recruiting Decisions Are Trending Up (and What to Do About It) In case you haven't noticed, money - how much your college costs, what kind of scholarship you're going to give your prospect, and the affordability of your school - is a topic of conversation with your prospects that is trending ...
02.01.2022 Episode 121: BLM, Vaccines and Creating a Unique Team Story How does your program address some of today's controversial, debated or topical news items? Today on the College Recruiting Podcast, we talk with a coach who has not only embraced an open dialogue with his team about those things, but ...
01.10.2022 Episode 120: The Captain - Recruiting and Developing Team Leaders On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we tackle the topic of recruiting and developing team leaders, and we're centering the conversation around the new book by coach Jamy Bechler. His latest work, "The Captain", is a fantastic ...
12.07.2021 Episode 119: Six Coaches, Six Questions In this episode, join Dan Tudor in a live roundtable discussion with six tennis coaches before the speech he gave at the ITA tennis coaches convention in Las Vegas in early December, 2021. Topics that got talked about include how ...
11.24.2021 Episode 118: Assessing Your Prospect's Physical and Mental Health During Recruiting It's a question more and more coaches are asking about: How do I spot potential underlying physical and mental health issues with the prospects I'm talking to? That's something our guest today has put a lot of though and research ...
11.04.2021 Episode 117: 6.5 Recruiting Priorities for Coaches \| Fall 2021 It's time to hear from Dan Tudor, one on one; He's got a lot of new information for coaches in this episode, focusing on everything from why you need to give the parents of your recruits reasons to NOT choose ...
10.11.2021 Episode 116: Defining You and Your Program to Achieve Excellence How can coaches build a truly excellent program? By defining what 'excellence' is. That's what today's guest would make the case for: Giancarlo Lemmi is the Associate Head Coach for Liberty University women's tennis, and has helped the program amass ...
09.27.2021 Episode 115: Assessing & Developing Your College Program the Right Way So many things can derail an otherwise smart, successful, competent coach on his or her way to building a great program. That's what today's show features: A conversation with a college coach who wants to be proactive in recognizing where ...
09.03.2021 Episode 114: Program Building Lessons From a Former Cold War Nuclear Submariner It's the big Season 6 premier of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, and we're not wasting any time bringing you one of the most interesting guests we've ever talked to: Jon S. Rennie, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and former nuclear submarine ...
06.21.2021 Episode 113: 3 Additional Recruiting Strategies for After Your First Contact On this episode of the podcast, join Dan Tudor for a 30 minute "Driving with Dan" talk that centers around a big question we've been getting after first contacts with new recruits are done: "What else should I be doing???" ...
06.08.2021 Episode 112: The Experts Recruiting Roundtable On this episode of the college recruiting weekly podcast, we turn to our team of experts here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies to talk about what coaches learned over the past year, and what new trends they see emerging as we ...
05.24.2021 Episode 111: Coach Theresa Beeckman on Managing Your Culture On today's episode, we'll talk with consultant, author and workshop leader about her new book, 'Managing Your Culture', and how intentionally creating your team's culture will help you perform - and recruit - more effectively. If you're trying to build ...
04.30.2021 Coach Gabe Bolton on Building a Successful Program Your Own Way Frank Sinatra sang it loudly: "I did it my way!" And just like Frank, there are college coaches out there who get creative, buck the trends, and build their programs using their instincts and experience as a guide. Coach Gabe ...
04.08.2021 Episode 109: John Brubaker On How College Coaches Can Go Beyond Stadium Status Coach, how do you take your college program - and your coaching career - "beyond stadium status"? And, what does that even mean? Former college coach and current author, speaker and consultant talks about his latest book, "Beyond Stadium Status", ...
03.19.2021 Episode 108: Are College Athletic Departments Ready for NIL? In this episode, we talk with journalist Andy Wittry, creator of the popular Out of Bounds online column focusing on issues surrounding college athletics, about the upcoming Name/Image/Likeness (NIL) initiative that will allow student-athletes to profit commercially during their time ...
03.01.2021 Episode 107: What Should Coaches Do When They Get Too Many Responses? Talk about a good problem to have! On today's episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, Dan Tudor talks with a coach who has implemented what she has learned by reading and listening to the resources provided by Tudor Collegiate ...
02.16.2021 Episode 106: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Letters Work In part two of this two part series on effective messaging, Dan Tudor continues his "Driving with Dan" conversation - building on the previous episode's focus on the right way to email with recruits - by talking about letters: How ...
02.08.2021 Episode 105: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Emails Work Buckle up, Coach: It's a return edition of "Driving with Dan"! On his way to work at a college campus with a group of clients, recruiting expert Dan Tudor talks about what the latest research shows when it comes to ...
01.25.2021 Episode 104: Coach Justin Wickard on Recruiting This Generation of Student-Athlete We've got a little insider info for you on today's episode. Coach Justin Wickard is a former Division I track and field coach, with successful stops at Louisiana Tech, Texas Christian University and the Air Force Academy. He's recruited at ...
01.12.2021 Episode 103: What to Change for Your 2021 Recruiting Plan Coach, Happy New Year! What needs to change in your recruiting plan as we get into 2021? That was the subject of a recent webinar we did for about 300 coaches from around the country, and because they said it ...
12.22.2020 Episode 102: Jeremy Tiers & Will Patch on the Class of 2021 College Search Process Study Do you know how the Class of 2021 - and many future classes you're recruiting - will be making their final decision? On today's episode, we're joined by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services for Tudor Collegiate Strategies, and Will ...

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