The High School Parents Playbook for College Athletic Scholarships

Hey Everyone. Awesome interview someone I known for many years having helped him in my small way, and his journey from High School "skinny" kid to the starting Punter at Notre Dame and NFLFA.  Listen to his thoughts on taking EVERYTHING you do, MUST be important!

This is an overview of the most recent NCAA changes being made for the high school athlete and their parents searching for that elusive college athletic scholarships

Every year, MILLIONS of high school student athletes and their parents engage in that great tradition of picking the college they want to attend the next 4 or 5 years. Well, that USED to be how it went. NOW the NCAA POST COVID and with ALL the changes that have NEGATIVELY effected the HS student (6th year, the transfer portal and even more cutting of scholarships) it is MORE important these days t...

Hello Everyone! And welcome back to another Podcast episode of DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE. Today, our focus is on using some of the tools we have developed over the years to help high school recruits learn how to "audible" during your college selections.  Our 9X approach brings in a few of the old proven ways, but NOW have some AWESOME and unique ways to assist you the high school athlete and parent/...

Hello Everyone!  Please join us here at DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE for our interview with long time Special Teams coach and Parent of 2 D-1 athletes as we discuss all things HS to college recruiting and the roles for both the Parents and Student-Athletes

Hello Everyone. I hope you all enjoyed the long Labor Day Weekend!  Our Guest today is Dr. PJ Caposey a published author; 3 time cancer surviver and current Superintendent of a large Illinois SD.  Dr. Caposey joins us at DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE to discuss his latest book "Cracking The Code". Using Personality Types to Maximize Performance 

As we once again head into another year of the NCAA we see they are looking to CONTROL not only what the student-athletes can do and say, NOW they are seeking to get Congress to put MORE CONTROLS in place. Once again, these controls will greatly benefit the COLLEGE athlete and NOT the HS athlete. 

Hey Sports Fans! Back from our European vacation, and are back in action, with our latest Podcast. We try to take a funny look (as I normally do) with the College camp ID's and the serious issues High Students and their parents are facing!  

The world of college sports recruiting is NOT for the faint of heart. Nowadays college RECRUITERS and position coaches have at their hands all sorts of Data to use in recruiting high school athletes! The High School Student-Athlete and their parents just don't know all the "ins and outs" and especially with the Transfer Portal and its Negative effects on high school athletes, and the Marketing dri...

Hello Everyone!  Here is our second part of our interview with Coach Dave Brader on his thoughts on the Transfer Portal and Post COVID issues and his "Summer" Camping weekends for the High school athletes and their parents. 

Hello everyone!  Please enjoy another Episode of DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE  and my TWO PART Coverage/Interview with long time St. Louis MO Kicking and Punting Instructor and friend of mine, Mr. Dave Brader! Dave and I discuss many of the issues facing the young HS athletes, and their parents as to what to look out for, and his views on training specialists! 

Hi Everyone. Today, we interviewed Chris Sailer from Chris sailer Kicking. Chris offers up his 20 plus years in the "kicking and long snapping busy and shares his views with Coach Nolan. Excellent overview and analysis of where the College Athletic Scholarship hunt has changed over the years to NOW with Social Media and the Transfer Portal. 

Hell everyone. Today I interviewed Jamie Kohl who I've known for many years. Jamie will be sharing not just his own journey and some of his OWN pitfalls along the way trying to play in the NFL, but also his son's recent Journey and his full ride scholarship to Iowa State university. We will share the NCAA's issues, as well as the realities as HS and college athletes and their parents need to under...

Hello Everyone! Sorry. I been away for a bit, but have been working on some great Podcasts and this one with my "new" friend Bernard Owens and he recent Best Selling book! Please join us, in listening to Bernard's experiences and his book entitled "The Only Thing Wrong With you...Is that YOU think Something's Wrong With You". Coach Nolan

The Recruiting HS Athlete to College World Post COVID and now with the Transfer Portal and the NCAA's ever changing "rules" we interviewed Ms. Diane Bloodworth the CEO of Atlanta based ScoutSmartRecruiting ( www.scoutsmartrecruiting.com ) and what he company os doing to assist the HS athlete. We hope you enjoy it! 

Aa we come to another National Signing Day for the Hundreds of Thousands of High School Athletes and their Parents/guardians and me in my 48th of coaching, these past 5 years with the NCAA "craziness" of the Transfer Portal we need to develop a better system and recruiting framework for the High School Athlete.  Please listen to my latest Podcast, and hope you enjoy it as much as I have in writing...

Hey Everyone! Its 2023 and with the Mafia/Cartel style in the NCAA and its Directives and Collectives (the Don's) we take a NEW and exciting turn for a New Year. This episode is to help those new found College athletes get as much money as they can from the NIL Lawyers, consultants and Brand managers breathing down their backs of their jerseys!  Finally we take a somewhat funny (and at times sarca...

As we enter into another year of the NCAA's attacks on the HS athletes and their Parents this podcast will uncover just how they are running a Mafia style organization. We'll go over all the rule changes designed to ONLY Assist the College Student-Athlete and take them head on! We'll go into what I coined The Transfer Portal Trickle Down Theory and how ONLY the college player, coaches and the NIL...

Hello Everyone. Tonight we are publishing our New Episode of DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE with our NIL series that will EXPOSE there more dirty side of the NCAA and it's Mafia/Cartel style they've had on hight school and college sports for over 100 yrs! If you are a parent (or athlete) in either High school or in college, we hope you will listen to this episode!  

As current high school athletes and their parents struggle to try to understand the dynamics of the recent NCAA decisions, we look at ways to help from our 47 years of experience.  It is clear the NCAA has laid down the gauntlet of helping" the current college athletes out, while hurting more and more high school student athletes in the hunt for those athletic scholarships.  

Good Evening Everyone!   As we move along the line of the theme of these Podcasts and who to deal with certain aspects of the college bound Student-Athlete, we have to look a the role BOTH the student and their Parents/guardians MUST PLAY especially in the recent light of the drastic NCAA changes! 

Hey Parents! Hope everyone is doing well! We are excited to publish our final part in the four part series of SPORTS PARENTS UNIVERSITY!  This senior year is call the SENIORITIS and we hope you enjoy!   Have an awesome week!   Coach Marc Nolan

This is the 3rd part of our 4th part series on the High Shcol Sport Parent, and some of the ways we as coaching see and hear the high school parents, both ON and OFF the field. We have some GREAT true stories from my 47 years of coaching and we hope you enjoy it! Coach 

This is our four part series, entitled SPORTS PARENTS UNIVERSITY  where each week the listener will be able to glean some knowledge (and yes get made a bit of fun at your expense) into the world of the High School Parent from Freshman Year through Senior year of a child's sports endeavors.  We cover our 47 years of coaching, managing, being a ref and umpire as well as a League President of several...

This is our 4 part series in assisting the Parents of those High School Athletes who are going through the next four years until Graduation! Then on to college as a parent of Athlete and hopefully with that "COLLEGE ATHLETIC FULL RIDE"  This first Podcast is dedicated to a parents in the  Freshman Year, where we'll lay out some of the things I've seen as a coach of 47 years having coached thousand...