The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Episode 243 highlights the 6 Step-by-Step procedures of the athletic recruiting process in the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System workbook.  The workbook is 1 of the many resources that you get with Recruit-Me 3.0.  The Recruit-Me 3.0 system has a downloadable manual and workbook, multiple videos and audio links to help with the recruiting process and link to helpful resources.  I detail t...

Last week on Episode 241 I asked you and I talked about, Would you be ready if a college coach called you today? I hope you had a chance to listen to Epi 241.  From that podcast it brought up the question of What would you ask when you talk with a coach? What specific questions should you ask?  So, this week's topic covers many specific questions that you can add to your toolbox to be ready and mo...

Will you be ready when a college coach calls? Episode 241 ask, If a college coach called you today, would you be ready?  What would you do? As a parent or student-athlete, you do not want to do all the work to get contacted and then not to be prepared to actually act on the contact.  So if you have made your list of schools, made you videos, been to a showcase or ID camp, done you work on the fiel...

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 H...

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 Oklah...

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, cove...

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 ma...

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. ...

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...

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 simulatio...

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 someon...

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 basket...

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. Email me the quote from this episod...

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and you are ready for the New Year.  I also hope Recruit-Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has helped you and your family in your recruiting journey.  I would like to ask a couple of favors for 2021.  One is, please share The Athletic Scholarship Podcast with another family or 2 that will start in the recruiting process or is in the recruiting process. ...

Bringing in Jon Fugler for an interview makes for an information-packed and fast moving episode.  Episode 229, features Jon Fugler, the founder and former CEO of Recruit-Me.  I wanted to have Jon on to catch up and let you know some of Jon's inspiration for starting Recruit-Me, a recruiting education system.  he started Recruit-Me in 2012, after his twin sons played baseball for Air Force.   Liste...

The Christmas break is a great time cook up a college list.  It does not matter if you are a freshman or sophomore and are just getting started in the recruiting game or if you are a junior or senior needing to attention fast.  A college list is essential.  This episode, 228, is chalked full of great ingredients to help you "cook up" a great list.  This episode, A Recipe for Your College List; Ing...

Episode 227 covers 3 integrated topics that will take your recruitment to a higher level.  Visualization can propel, not only, your athletic performance, but also, your recruitment journey.  It may be easy to SEE how visualization can help you to play better, but how does it help in recruiting?  Well, that is where setting goals and planning comes into play.  Writing down goals, both long term and...

In episodes 223 and 224, the interviews with Kevin Easley, a college athlete's father, we got some great information from a family that went through the recruiting process and is go through the recruiting process with their high school age son.  One of the many, many tidbits from the Easley interviews was that the family started looking up recruiting rules on NCAA.org.  Learning NCAA rules helped...

In episodes 223 and 224, the interviews with Kevin Easley, a college athlete's father, we got some great information from a family that went through the recruiting process and is go through the recruiting process with their high school age son.  One of the many, many tidbits from the Easley interviews was that the family started looking up recruiting rules on NCAA.org.  Learning NCAA rules helped...

Episode 224 is Part 2 of 2 from an interview with Kevin Easley. Kevin is the father of a D1 soccer player, a junior in high school that is in the recruiting process now and a up and coming 6th grader. Kevin's daughter, Jadyn, plays soccer for the University of Missouri. Part 1, episode 223, was a loaded episode, full of great advice and insight into Jadyn's early recruitment. It compares her recru...

Episode 223 is Part 1 of 2 parts from an interview with Kevin Easley.  Kevin is the father of a D1 soccer player, a junior in high school that is getting recruited for soccer or football and a up and comer that is in 6th grade.  Kevin's daughter, Jadyn, plays soccer for the University of Missouri.  In Part 1 we cover how and when Jadyn's recruitment started, some benefits of playing in college, so...

Episode 222 promotes the free Recruiting Power Pack offered by Recruit-Me on Recruit-Me.com.  Not only does it shamefully promote it, but it gives you some great tips on recruiting to get you started.  Really, you may not even need to sign up for the free Recruiting Power Pack, it has so much information.  But, you really should sign up for the free Recruiting Power Pack, because it is FREE, and t...

This episode, 221, You Can "Manage" Your Way Through College, reflects on my college experience as a student-manager for the Southwest Missouri State Bears Men's Basketball team, now Missouri State.  I reference episode 219 and go into more detail of the different, but perfect way I got to experience college athletics.  I want to give high school student-athletes an alternative to playing their sp...

Episode 220 is an interview with Myles Mensah.  Myles is the host of the Student-Athlete Combo Podcast and he is recent college graduate from Hofstra University in New York.  Myles played baseball for 4 years at Hofstra. Student-Athlete Combo is a podcast for aspiring student athletes, current student athletes, and parents to get insight on how to get the most out of their academic experience.  St...

It's story time!  Listen to stories about the adventures high school and college sports can take you to.  Sometimes we wonder if all the fuss of sports is worth it.  This podcast has some "pick-me-up" stories to energize your journey. Brent@recruit-me.com Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me.com/system Recruit-Me.com/tools