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I know you are really going to enjoy and gain a great amount of information from this Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episode 240: Part 2; An Interview with Coach Barry Hinson. Barry Hinson is currently an analyst for the Oklahoma State University Men's Basketball team. Coach Hinson has coached basketball for 40 years, ranging from Junior High, High School and College. Barry started as a Junior High coach, then moved to a High School coach in Tulsa. In 1993 he became an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University(ORU) in Tulsa, OK. He took over as the Head Coach of ORU in 1997. In 1999 Barry moved to the Head Coach position at Southwest Missouri State in Springfield, MO. During his tenure, the university changed its name to Missouri State. After 9 years at SWMO/MSU he took a job at Kansas University and was there for 4 years. Then in 2012 he took the reigns of the Southern Illinois Salukis. Hinson returned to his college alma mater, Oklahoma State University in 2019.

This episode covers many topics. NCAA recruiting rules, family decisions, the importance of getting the right fit, what Coach Hinson watches for when watching a player in a high school or club basketball game, how to prepare for college and many, many other helpful nuggets.

If you listen to both episodes of this interview, episode 239 and episode 240, you will get a charge of useful, fun and inspiring recruiting information.

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Barry Hinson, Oklahoma State University Basketball Analyst

Doing an interview with Coach Barry Hinson is fun, inspiring and informational. Coach Hinson has been a high school and college basketball coach for 40 years. His resume runs from a high school in Tulsa, OK to becoming the head coach at Oral Roberts University, Missouri State University and Southern Illinois University and being on the basketball staff at Kansas University and currently at Oklahoma State University. Barry was at Missouri State University for 9 years and I got to watch him recruit and coach some very fine athletes and coach some very successful teams in Springfield, MO. Hinson's track record coaching on the court and getting recruits to be successful on the court and in the classroom is exceptional. Coach Hinson is very passionate and wears his emotions on his sleeve. As you will find out in this episode, Episode 239, Part 1 of An Interview with Coach Barry Hinson and next week's episode, Episode 240, Part 2, all I had to do was prompt Barry and he covered many, many aspects of recruiting and how to get ready for college.

Listen and find out what Barry has to say about NCAA Rules, how recruiting is a family decision, how to find the right college fit, then we jump to what Coach Hinson watches for when he is watching a game of a recruit. Stay tuned in for Coach's special additional piece of recruiting advise, too.

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Episode 238 is Part 2 of 2 to An Interview with Glenn Quick. Glenn is an Assistant Athletics Director and Academic and Career Counselor for Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas. In Episode 237, Part 1 of the interview, Glenn gives us his background, what academic counselors do for an athletic program and how his professional life was changed as he attended college.

This episode, Episode 238, covers a large amount of helpful information that will help you decide on a college and help to prepare you for college while you are still in high school and how not to get "Senioritis" in high school. He explains how an academic advisor helps a new college student-athlete in helping with choices of classes, balancing the athletic vs academic schedule and getting the student-athlete on track toward graduation. The Academic Advisor helps to balance classes, practice, games, training and travel. In this episode we get into some differences between high school and college.

Click Here for Episode 238: Part 2 o 2 of an Interview with Glenn Quick.

Glenn also dials in on a feature many universities have and that is Career Counseling. See some advantages a school can provide to a student-athlete with this department of their athletic program.

Thank you to Glenn Quick for his time and valuable information. If anyone has any questions for Glenn, then email me at [email protected].

The end of this episode answers a question from the Q & A section of the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Get the answer to this question from a parent. Question: Should we continue to send updates information to the entire list of schools that we have sent to or only those who have replied to us?

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This is Part 1 of an Interview with Glenn Quick. Glenn is the Assistant Athletics Directory and an Academic and Career Counselor at Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas. In this episode we will find out what academic counselors do in general and how Glenn found his way into this area of athletic academic and career counseling. Hearing how, like many college students, your professional career may change as you take college courses and as you meet people throughout your college time. This is a good lesson and an informational nugget that we get out of this interview.

I met Glenn in college at Missouri State back in the late 1980s. I lost track of Glenn until we saw each other at the Missouri Valley Conference basketball tournament in St Louis in the mid 2000s. We found out that our boys were the same age and that we both coached competitive baseball teams. From there, we stayed in contact. Glenn's team came to Ozark to play in a wood bat tournament I put on and we saw each other and each other's boys play throughout high school and summer ball. Parker attended a Kansas baseball camp the summer after Parker's sophomore year.

In this Part 1 of the interview, we, like I said earlier, find out what an academic counselor does on a college campus, when athletes meet with their academic counselors and in general how many times they meet a week.

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If you know anything about the Real Estate business, then you know the most important thing is location, location, location. Well, in the recruiting process location is important, but not the most important item. It is many times not thought about as student-athletes and families look at and decide on a school. The location of a college can positively or adversely affect a player's experience. Being minutes from home, or 5 hours away or 15 hours away, are discussions a family needs to have throughout the recruiting process. Relevant discussions and good discussions come from research.

This episode, Episode 236, tells you about the many questions you need to consider about location. Our family, Parker, Sutton, Lori and I, all have examples of why location helped to make our college decisions or are going to help make a decision, in Sutton's case. Lori, my wife, attended the University of Kentucky, and she knew she wanted to be away from home, but close enough to drive back home, a 4 hour drive. She also had family very close to campus to help when she needed to be off campus, but not go home. In this episode you hear how I considered the location in my college decision and how Parker's plan changed during his recruitment and how, again, Sutton is making his parameters known and how he is applying them to his school list.

Location will affect not only travel, but shopping, eating, entertainment and even down to laundry. So let's get into location, location, location!

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Episode 235 is called 3 Ways to Dig Into Recruiting Research. The 3 ways covered are a deep dive into researching a team's or school's schedule, a team's roster and the team's coaches. I will tell you how to do the research and why these 3 research items are important in your recruiting quest.

I will walk you through a team's schedule and help you mine valuable information nuggets that will not only help you down the road, but help you now to build a list of schools to contact. A team's conference and non-conference foes on the schedule gives you both team travel information and more school information on schools you may have never considered. The travel opportunities were a part of Parker's decision to go to Northwestern University.

The team's roster is a great way to analyze how you might fit into a program's plans. See how the roster player's grade, size, stats and previous schools attended can paint a picture of your possible future at that school.

Getting information on the coaches will help you to formulate an introductory email that will get you attention from that school.

So learn how researching a team's schedule, roster and coaches' links can move you closer to the right college for you. Listen at the end of the podcast as I continue the Q&A section, Appendix C of the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.

Checkout the links below an listen to bonus audio from a Spfd, MO radio show that features Brent Hanks.

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2nd Hour of the "Sports Reporters" with Ned Reynolds 1/27/21: ESPN Radio Jock 96.9-99.9-1060 AM Springfield, MO: Interview with Brian Reynolds, Head Coach of Drury U Swimming 47:20-32:34 and Recruiting and Baseball training discussion by Brent Hanks, Recruit-Me and Brandon Mozley, Marucci Midwest Baseball

Episode 234: Recruiting Can Be Like a Car's Gas Gauge was inspired by a 2+ hour drive to Columbia, Missouri I got to make to watch Sutton, my youngest son, play a high school basketball game. I've always noticed how the gas needle on the gas gauge seems to stick to the full mark on the dash, but then it drops quicker than you expect when it get to one-quarter of a tank. This is a great simulation of the recruiting process. Listen to this episode to walk, I mean drive, through the tank of gas and the student-athletes recruiting journey. Plus, you get an idea of what the drive from Ozark, Missouri to Columbia, Missouri is like. Exciting! : )

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I hope you had a chance to listen to Part 1 of 2, episode 232, An Interview with Paul Putt. Paul is a parent of 4 student-athletes. Last week's episode gives you the family's background and where all 4 kids are in their athletics and schools. We get into some great advice as Paul tells about his 2 oldest daughter's recruiting journeys and lessons the family learned. It is great to hear from someone that has been through not just one recruitment, but two.

Part 2 of 2, episode 233, gets right into some great advice about making sure your student-athlete wants to play in college. Paul talks video, making a school list, how important it is for the student-athlete to be able to talk to coaches and the importance of academics. We get into the 3rd daughter's current recruitment and how club coaches are helping. The interview concludes as we discuss how being mentally and physically strong as you enter the freshman year of college is so important. Remember, if the student-athlete is going to a 4 year college, they will be competing against 21, 22 year old men and women.

I want to thank Paul for all the helpful information he has passed on in these two episodes, episode 232 and 233.

Please email me, [email protected], if you have any questions for me or Paul.

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Episode 232 brings you an interview with Paul Putt. Paul and Christy are parents of 4 student-athletes. Mikayla, the oldest daughter, played 2 years of D2 soccer and basketball and is now finishing college as a student in Colorado. Macey is currently playing volleyball at Arkansas State University in the Sun Belt Conference. Moriah is a high school junior and is in the recruiting process to basketball. Merek is their 6th grade son and is working on many sport right now.

Paul and Christy both played sports in college at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO. Christy played basketball and Paul played baseball. Paul is currently an Athletic Trainer and Strenghth Coach and is the Director of Fitness and Wellness at Hickory Hill Country Club in Springfield, MO.

You will walk through this family's recruiting adventures with the two oldest daughters in this episode, Part 1 of 2. We talk about reaching out to coaches, advice from a college coach, camp and video advice, how a lesson was learned from an email mistake, picking the right school and the hard conversation with your student-athlete about their commitment to playing a sport in college. This episode and next week's episode are great examples of how talking to families that have been through the recruitment process is so very valuable. Get some time stress saving tips from episode 232 and next week's episode 233.

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Episode 231 breaks us into 2021. This episode, Polar Express Inspired Recruiting, is inspired by a Christmas break, COVID induced TV binge watching. During the break our family had time to watch the movie, Polar Express. There is a quote that made me think of recruiting. Listen to this episode to find out the quote and how it impacts your recruiting journey.

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