College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

Whether you're a runner prepping for the Boston Marathon, or a college coach tasked with bringing in their best recruiting class yet, having a system is essential. No system, no endurance, no results. On this episode, we talk to Megan Carcagno, former head coach at Duke University, current recruiting coordinator for Tudor Collegiate Strategies, and runner in the 2025 Boston Marathon. She talks abo...

On this episode, something unique: Dan Tudor joins a college class at Kuyper College focused on teaching leadership and coaching principles to current student-athletes who are looking to become future college coaches. They ask some really interesting questions - some of which we don't even usually hear from current college coaches! It was a great discussion, and there's a lot to learn from. Thanks...

Coaches are always talking about scouting, recruiting and developing mental tough student-atheltes for their programs. But wait a second, Coach: What about YOU? Are you working on your own mental toughness so you can survive the stressful, pressure packed career that you've chosen? In this episode, we talk to Gary Chupik, the founder of Elite Mindset. It's a mental conditioning and training compan...

Many coaches struggle to connect with first generation prospects who are coming to campus from the inner city. What are some better ways to help this group of prospects overcome some of the difficult obstacles they often face during the recruiting process, and once they get to campus? On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to a coach who is making this his focus. A.B. St...

Starting to recruit your next class? WAIT! Listen to this first before you dive in head first on those first contact calls, texts and emails. Dan Tudor shares four essential foundations for not only establishing effective first contacts with your new prospects, but also reveals what key strategies will keep the process moving forward successfully after you get those new recruits into your system....

Coach Kristen Dowling has gone through it all as a young college coach. And in this episode, she shares her basketball coaching journey - and her lessons learned - for everyone in our College Recruiting Weekly audience. She started as a rising assistant coach, and then got her dream job as a head coach at a Division I program. After four years, she was fired. It crushed her. But she returned to co...

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we bring in three of our experts at Tudor Collegiate Strategies to join Dan Tudor answering four great questions that came in from our text message coaching group. Dan and the team talked in detail about the answers to those questions, and provided some great insights into how coaches can build better strategies for their programs. This epi...

At the start of the 2025 NFL Playoffs, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was caught reading a book while sitting on the bench. The book was "Inner Excellence" by Jim Murphy. If you followed the story you know that it was what everyone in the sports world was talking about for several weeks, including before, during and after the Eagles' Super Bowl win over the Chiefs. For the author, Ji...

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we dive into the data to discover the top decision making factor used by the Class of 2024 to make their decision on which college, program and coach was right for them. We're joined by Dan Christensen, a former college coach who now heads up research and communications for us here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies, and oversees our massive an...

Are you feeling like you're being overrun with new technology and tools in your coaching life? You haven't seen anything yet! The next few years are going to usher in wholesale changes in the ways you recruit prospects, evaluate talent, and coach your team - and most of those changes are going to center around AI, artificial intelligence, in your daily life. To bring us up to speed on what the fut...

When it comes to developing and building your program as a college coach, there is no greater potential helper than your athletic director. And in recruiting, when coaches can make a solid connection with a high school athletic director, it can be a great source of information as you scout and search for prospects. In this episode, we talk to Jake von Scherrer, a Certified Master Athletic Administ...

The Transfer Portal has become a behemoth in the recruiting and roster creation world of college coaches. But does that result in developing a winner? More often than not, the answer - according to analytics - is, surprisingly, no. One analyst that has researched this Evan Miyakawa, a former NBA consultant who now focuses on college basketball, and studying the statistical trends. He's a rising st...

On this episode, listen in to the talk Dan Tudor presented at the 2024 American Volleyball Coaches Association convention to a group of Division I head coaches and assistant coaches. The discussion centered around the challenges so many coaches and their programs are working through with all the new rule changes and new options athletes and prospects have in determining where they compete. This ta...

Inevitably, like it or not, you're going to run into a prospect (or their parents) who is leaning away from the idea of committing to you. I know, shocking. But it does happen once in a while. And when it does, the reaction you should have shouldn't be to 'give up' or 'stop talking'. Especially when an objection happens early on, your job as a recruiter is to make your case. Define why they should...

Are you recruiting international prospects? Do you want to, but just don't know how? What's the secret to being successful? On this episode, we're going to dig deep into the topic with the help from Division I Coach Danny Acosta, Head Baseball Coach at University of Maryland - Eastern Shore. Coach Acosta is from Puerto Rico, and has recruited globally for his 30 year coaching career, as well as he...

Hey, Coach: Let's talk about money! That's always exciting, right? Maybe not, but it's important. Your prospects are entering a crucial period when they're either waiting on completing their FAFSA, or waiting on final financial packages from your campus. All the while, you want them to commit. On this episode, Dan Tudor walks coaches through some proven ways to lead prospects past the paralysis of...

Sometimes, we're suckers. We get fooled in life, and you're certainly not immune from that as a college coach who recruits. Your prospects mean well, but they are human and have their own selfish priorities in the recruiting process. So, what if they fool you along the way? A better question: What if there were some simple steps you could take to prevent that from happening? In this episode, Dan T...

Are you feeling like some of your recruits are slipping away? Has it been a while since you've had a conversation with them? This episode is for you. Listen to Dan Tudor talk about how to jump start the recruiting process with existing prospects who seem to be fading away, and why YOU are the one that's going to need to lead that effort. We think you'll find it helpful, Coach. You can also watch t...

In this episode, Dan Tudor talks with strength and conditioning coach Angelo Gingerelli. Angelo has coached at the college level for more than two decades, and is currently Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Seton Hall University, and published the book “Finish Strong: Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes”. His new book, "The Next Four Years: Compete, Win and Thrive in Colleg...

In this episode, Dan Tudor talks about details coaches like to give while they are recruiting their Gen Z prospects - and why so many aspects of that approach is wrong. To aid in the discussion, Dan plays part of a conversation he had with a college coach who was leading with some details that may not have been the best choice, and he gives examples of how to talk about details, facts and informat...

Want to learn how to build your career, your program, and your resiliency skills as a college coach? If so, then this podcast episode is for you. We sat down with retired coach Sue Semrau, the all-time winningest women's basketball coach at Florida State University, winner of multiple Coach of the Year awards, and consistent Sweet Sixteen participant in the NCAA Tournament every spring. Coach Semr...

Most college recruiters have noticed how different this generation of prospects and athletes are, and many are having a hard time figuring out how to approach them effectively in the recruiting process. On this episode, coaches are going to listen in on a conversation Dan Tudor had with Dr. Rob Ramseyer, Associate VP of Athletics at Friends University, who has started The Impactful Coaching Projec...

Brian Cruver is an accomplished tech entrepreneur who has a son that was getting recruited to play D1 football. Watching the process of his evaluation by coaches, and the process they used to take him through the process, surprised him...it seemed haphazard and disorganized. On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, we talk to Cruver who has launched the new tech tool called Scorab...

With details of the House settlement beginning to take shape, we ask the question: Are athletic departments around the country ready for the inevitable results of this landmark legislation? It will change funding, budgets, recruiting - and especially, the employment status of college student-athletes. So with all those changes coming quickly over the horizon, we wanted to bring back Katie Davis, C...

As you recruit your prospects for your next class, do you know what's going on behind the scenes? Are you aware of what's holding them back from making a decision? What are they thinking, exactly? In this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly Podcast, Dan Tudor talks with Dr. Pamela Ellis, founder of Compass College Advisory, a firm that helps students, athletes and parents find a good college...