The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Jay Spoonhour, who is the Assistant Athletics Development Director at Missouri State University.  Jay, basically, oversees the Name, Image and Likeness, NIL, management and fundraising at Missouri State University.  This, Part 1, will introduce Jay, his job and then we will get into how NIL works and you will get examples of the different ways NIL is used...

Today's episode is Workshop #3 that I, Recruit Me, am giving to student-athletes and their families to Elite Academic Adademy in Southern California.  I will continue covering each step of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  You can get the Recruit Me 3.0 System for only $39 on the Recruit-Me.com website.  In this episode you get Step #3, Cr...

Episode 441 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a way to help you reduce your recruiting anxiety.  Recruit Me says that it can help you reduce the Time, Money and Anxiety in a recruiting journey.  Listen in and learn some the stressors during a Potential Student-Athlete's recruiting journey.  There are stresses on both the Student-Athlete and family members.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me...

That's right, Recruit Me may not be for you.  You may not need all the free and inexpensive resources that Recruit Me provides you.  If you are a 5 Star recruit or are just wanting to spend a lot of money on a recruiting service or you are gambling that college coaches will just find you from your superior play or you are hoping a high school or club coach will get you hooked up to a college, then...

Happy New Year!  I'll give you a brief review of episodes 413 through 439 from The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  Please listen to both Epi 438 and 439 to find subjects The Athletic Scholarship Podcast covered in 2024.  Use the free resource to help you in your recruiting journey.  It doesn't matter where you are in your journey or what level or sport you play, The Athletic Scholarship Podcast can...

Merry Christmas! What a wonderful way to end a great year.  This Christmas Eve episode and next week's New Year's Eve episode gives you a brief description of each episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episodes 387 to 412 are covered in this episode and then episodes 413 to 437 will be covered next Tuesday.  Here at The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Recruit Me we don't take the holidays...

This episode is re-read of a Zoom workshop that I did for the Elite Academic Academy in Southern California.  Today, I cover the last part of Step #1 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is part of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  Step #1 is Select the Right Schools to Contact and then I cover Step #2, which is Write a Great Introductory Email.  Listen to Episode 434 for...

Listen in to get a look at how a recent college softball recruit viewed her experience with camps and showcases in her search.  The X Post is from @streuber2025, go check it out. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com   promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com   promo code RM123 Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship...

Let's jump into the Christmas Holiday season by going back into The Athletic Scholarship Podcast vault and doing a review of Episode 111 from back in October 2018.  This episode was presented by Jon Fugler, the founder of both Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  Jon published 202 weekly episodes and this episode makes 233 of me publishing weekly episodes.  Episode 111, found on the R...

Welcome to Episode 434 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education podcast.  This episode is a recreation of a Zoom workshop I did for the Elite Academic Academy in California.  This was the first of many monthly workshops I will present to the Elite student-athletes and parents.  This one covers what Recruit Me is and then I cover part of Step #1...

Episode 433 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is highlighting and reviewing an episode of The Closing Pitch Podcast, Episode 144.  During The Closing Pitch Podcast the hosts cover many of the changes and effects of the new NCAA scholarship and team roster rules that are combined with the recent changes in the Transfer Portal and NIL.  Get a peak into how these hosts see the recruiting and the ef...

Here is a recruiting tip for you, the prospective college student athlete: Try to get your high school and club coaches involved with your recruitment. Also, here is a message to the student-athlete and coaches; The student-athlete needs to bring a list of researched colleges and sit down with coaches to get their opinion on the level of play and on the colleges on the list.  Coaches, many times,...

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Andy Allanson, Ex-MLB catcher and Athletic Lead for the Elite Academic Academy in Southern California. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com   promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.co...

Episode 430 is part 1 of a 2 part interview with ex-MLB Catcher, Andy Allanson.  Andy is now the Peak Performance Athletic Lead at Elite Academic Academy in southern California.  Elite's Peak Performance is one of the many offerings at Elite Academic Academy.  There are links to Elite Academic below.  Andy brings you information this week on his college and Major League background, what Elite Acad...

Today I highlight an X post from @SportsForceBB about their option on the new NCAA Scholarship and Team Roster rules starting in the 2025-2026 season of sports.  This post talks mainly about college baseball, but the new rule will affect other sports and level of college sports and recruiting.  You will get the 5 points that the @SportsForce BB post presents, plus you will get how the new NCAA rul...

I came across 2 posts on X on social media that I will cover in this episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The 1st post was about the announcement that the National Letter of Intent will be eliminated by the NCAA Division I and Division II levels.  I will give you the actual announcement and what the NLI was and how it might effect recruiting.  More news on the changes will be covered on f...

A goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is help student-athletes find their "right fit" college and college sports team.  I would challenge the athlete to research and understand as much as possible about what their college experience will be like.  Also, I challenge them to try to find a fit and give themselves at least 2 years to their sport.  Listen to this episode to hear abo...

The goal of Recruit Me, LLC and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to help guide you to a "right fit" choice of a college for you.  There are things I see and hear about in the recruiting world that are great successes, but there are things that upset me or make me sad.  I covered  in Episode 424 and 425 some pitfalls in recruiting journey.  Pitfalls that happen during the recruiting journey and...

  Get definitions of verbal commitments at all levels of college play and why there is a risk to an early commitment for a High School Student-Athlete. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com   promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeC...

Welcome to Episode 424 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  I'm Brent Hanks, the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the Owner/CEO of Recruit Me, LLC and the father of 2 college baseball players.  Our family's recruiting started back in 2015 and today's episode covers 3 of many things that make me sad in the recruiting world.  Listen in and don't make me sad. Click Here to join the Recruit-...

Episode 423 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a look at the Recruit-Me.com website.  I want to show you the resources available on the website and that you are not going get strung out for hundreds or thousands of dollars to get all the information or the help you need to get a spot on a college team or an athletic scholarship.  The pages on the webiste are: The Homepage The FREE Recruiting P...

Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Episode 422.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com   promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com   promo code RM123 Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship P...

Welcome to Episode 421 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode is a review of Steps 1 through 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System found on Recruit-Me.com.  Episodes 414 through 420 cover each step, individually.  So, today I am going to give you some personal insights and tips for Step 1; Select the Right Schools to Contact.  S...

  Episode 420 is Step 7 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and covers the subject of Making Your School Choice Wisely.  Steps 1 through 6 setup this step.  Listen to how you pull together all your research and work to help you to make your "Right Fit" college choice.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-...

Welcome to Episode 419 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, hosted by Brent Hanks, the Owner & CEO of Recruit Me, LLC.  Thiis is Step 6 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.  Those 7 Steps are featured in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System on Recruit-Me.com.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit...