College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

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 episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we'll talk with Ceci about: - Why pro teams are focusing more on the mental preparation their players take. - How they scout for the right mental strengths as they evaluate and scout prospects. - What college coaches can do to apply the same principles to their programs, improving how they help their athletes perform, and how they uncover mentally strong prospects for their teams. To contact Ceci with questions, or how she can work with your program, email her at edgementalityCMPC@gmail.com and follow her on X at @EdgeMentality. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn. Questions for the show? Email dan@dantudor.com. Thanks for listening, Coach!

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 sell their program. But many are making some critical errors in their approach. In this session, Dan outlines several of the most common errors, and what coaches should be doing to correct them. If you're a women's basketball coach, you can find more additional resources that go along with this presentation at dantudor.com/wbca. Questions? Follow-up with an email to dan@dantudor.com. Thanks for subscribing, and make sure to tell your fellow coaches to listen AND leave us a 5-star review!

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 how all of it is affecting coaching, recruiting and college athletic departments. In this fascinating discussion, Dan hears from Greg on what's currently happening around NIL, and some of the lessons we're learning through the ups and downs of this groundbreaking shift in college sports. Whether you're a Division I coach, or someone building a program or leading a department at a D2 or D3 college, this is going to be a great show to devote some time to. To reach our guest, Greg Dooley, you can email him gregorydools@gmail.com, read his blog at mvictors.com, or connect with him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/mvictors To talk to Dan, email him at dan@dantudor.com

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 what you want, when you want it, and how you want the process to go. Which is fine, because they're going through their difficult decision process, and they need some room to think, right? O.K., maybe a little. But we still want coaches to be in control. On this episode, we talk about some common push back coaches are getting, and how to respond to it all in a better way. We hope it helps! Questions? Email us at dan@dantudor.com. Interested in the branding strategy that got mentioned in the episode? Visit HelloPreseason.com for ideas and details. Thanks for listening, Coach!

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 a few weeks, in a year, or in three years. Your job: Create a path for them to come back to you. In this episode, Dan Tudor explains a proven strategy used for the last two decades by select coaches around the country to build a bank of prospects that they can re-recruit. Listen and learn, Coach! Questoins? Email us at dan@dantudor.com.

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 academic year. The results were interesting! So, what is the 'right' focus for coaches? And, how should recruiters prioritize their activities to gain the best results? Listen to the conversation on this episode. To foll0w-up and ask questions of our experts featured on today's podcast episode, email them: Dan Christensen danchristensen@dantudor.com Mandy Green mandy@dantudor.com Mike Divilbiss mike@dantudor.com Paul Nemetz-Carlson pnc@dantudor.com And as always, you can reach out and ask Dan Tudor questions anytime you have them at dan@dantudor.com. Thanks for listening, Coach!

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 professional. John leads a fascinating discussion on how college coaches can reset their targets to reach their goals, and how he discovered this system through a pivotal moment as a teenage athlete. Visit the website HitYourBullseye.com to view more and order the book. Questions? Email dan@dantudor.com, and don't forget to subscribe and rate our podcast please!

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 podcast to find out! Have questions? Contact us at dan@dantudor.com. Thanks, Coach!

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, and where he should go from here. Will it help you? Find out by listening...and see what kind of adjustments you might want to be making! Thanks for listening - make sure to rate and review us if you haven't already, and tell at least 50 of your fellow coaches about the podcast.

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 programs go about recruiting and communicating (and, yes, 'selling') this generation of college student-athlete prospect. It's about an hour in length, and covers several topics, so we hope you enjoy it! To contact Coach Tolbert, or to follow his very informative, helpful X (Twitter) account, connect with him at @kebbat Questions about recruiting, and how Tudor Collegiate Strategies helps coaches win and build their programs more quickly and effectively? Contact Dan Tudor at dan@dantudor.com. Thanks for listening! Make sure to share it with your staff, and please rate and review our podcast if you have a minute.