College Recruiting Weekly Podcast

Welcome to Season 9 of our College Recruiting Weekly podcast! We have a lot of great topics and information lined up for you this season, but to kick off the Fall of '24, we're going to focus on the landmark news over the summer involving compensation for college athletes, and the House settlement of the issue that puts initial rules in place for college athletic departments around the country. To...

As we wrap-up Season 8 of the College Recruiting Weekly Podcast, Dan Tudor grabs the microphone and rambles about seven priorities he sees college coaches needing to have as we head into summer, and prepare for the start of one of the most challenging recruiting periods on the history of college athletics. What are those seven priorities? Listen to this special episode and find out. And, if you ha...

As we enter a new phase of NIL money in college sports, and athletes receiving more and more share of the revenue, we wanted to ask an important question: Is all of this going to add up? In other words, will college athletic departments be able to make the necessary budgetary adjustments to make it all work? And, what will be the effect on coaches and their programs? In this episode, we talk to Ka...

It's vital that college coaches at all levels continue to understand how the Name/Image/Likeness landscape is changing on an ongoing basis. Today's show is an example of that evolution and change. Mike Ross is the founder of ConNEXTions, a non-profit that helps high level athletes maneuver the in's and out's of NIL in college, as well as maximizing their earning abilities while they are still in h...

On this episode, we're helping you get ready to revamp your upcoming year of on-campus recruiting visits with a Top 5 primer on what matters first as you redesign your approach. We cover just a few of the things we wrote about in our popular recruiting guide for coaches, "Freaking Awesome Campus Recruiting Visits". Don't have the book? Invest a few bucks and get it in your coaching library! Get it...

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...

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...

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...

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 decis...

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 selec...

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? Li...

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 syste...

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 listeni...

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 prospe...

If you've watched it, and you're a college coach, you probably love Ted Lasso. The AppleTV series was a huge hit, mainly because of its cast of characters lead by actor Jason Sudekis' portrayal of an American football coach being hired by an English soccer team to be their new leader. Hilarity - along with some drama, self-discovery, and plenty of mishaps - ensues. But for college coaches, are the...

On this episode of the College Recruiting Weekly podcast, three of our resident experts here at Tudor Collegiate Strategies team up to talk about a recent coaches' poll that revealed their four biggest frustrations, and which ones presented the biggest obstacles as they try to build their programs. Our guest hosts include: Dan Christensen Director of Marketing & Media danchristensen@dantudor.com P...

It's that time of year - you're trying to close out one recruiting class, and ramp-up activity with another one. The challenge: How to keep the forward progress going with a variety of prospects. In this episode, listen in as Dan Tudor talks with a client coach who is experiencing some exciting movement in her class with a lot of recruits, while others seem like they are a ways out from making the...

Do you have a plan to develop your recruited student-athletes into not only better competitors, but better people? If the answer is no, Molly Grisham wants to help you. She works with athletes, coaches and programs around the country at all levels, helping guide them into how to perform better, get along more cohesively, and teaching coaches how to lead that process. Getting in touch with Molly is...

"Why are my prospects taking so long to commit???" What college coach hasn't said that at least once every recruiting year? And yet, without an answer to that question - and a plan to overcome the problem - your program development (and job) might be in jeopardy. So in this episode, Dan Tudor explains why delays are a natural part of their process, and offers some proven strategies on how to overc...

Ever feel like it's harder than ever to close your top prospects? You're not alone! The competition for the best talent has never been more intense, which is why we're letting you listen in on a recent conversation Dan Tudor had with one of our clients at Tudor Collegiate Strategies. This coach was getting his numbers, and attracting way more attention than ever before, but was still struggling to...

If you coach college sports, you've probably noticed that this generation you're recruiting and coaching is much, much different than the generations before it. They tend to need more direction. They are much more focused on their mental health. And, for many of them, their anxiety is off the charts. So, how should coaches approach these young student-athletes in a way that brings them into the pr...

On this episode, we'll take you inside a conversation Dan Tudor had with Joanna Lane from "The Dirt Podcast", the podcast from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, which serves college softball coaches around the country. Dan talks about campus visits, how to approach the rising transfer culture in college athletics, effective messaging, and more. If you're a softball coach, you need to lis...

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, and discuss "the theatre of status in recruiting" - what your athlete perceives, and believes, about you. And, how to better manage and define that for them. Join Dan Tu...

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 podcast - he's a basketball coach who called and had questions about the summer, what or what not to do with visits, and planning for the new recruiting class as it relates to handling t...