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College Recruiting Weekly Podcast — 226 episodes

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Episode 228: Ascending Recruiting Levels by Managing Momentum

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Episode 227: The Financial Future of College Athletics

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Episode 226: The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Ask a Prospect to Commit

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Episode 225: Developing a Win Deep Culture in Your Program

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Episode 224: What's the Right Ongoing Message to Our Committed Prospects?

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Episode 223: What's the Future of NIL?

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Episode 222: Asking Your Prospect the Right Questions, and Giving Them the Right Answers

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Episode 221: The Case for Cultures Created by Coaches

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Episode 220: Rebuilding Your Program

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Episode 219: Understanding the Mindset of the Parent of a Rising Athlete Prospect

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Episode 218: The Challenges of Recruiting and Roster Management

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Episode 217: Lessons From an Athletic Director Who Also Advises Rising Prospects

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Episode 216: Understanding the Blueprint to This Generation of Athletic Prospect

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Episode 215: The Cheat Sheet for Landing Your Next Coaching Job

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Episode 214: Influencing the Influencers in Your Prospect's Recruiting Decision

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Episode 213: Recruiting's Early Stage Priority: Feelings Over Facts

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Episode 212: Lessons in Leadership and Program Building from Lance Von Vogt

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Episode 211: The Art of Telling Your Prospect "No"

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Episode 210: Better Strategies for Integrating Your New Athletes Into Your Program

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Episode 209: Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger on the Big Changes Coming to College Sports

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Episode 208: Two NIL Experts Speak - What ADs & Coaches Need to Know

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Episode 207: Six Key Recruiting Questions Answered

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Episode 206: Gaining Efficiency and Effectiveness in Your Recruiting

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Episode 205: Accurately Evaluating Your Own Recruiting Strengths and Weaknesses

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Episode 204: Misconceptions, Myths and Worries of Your Next Prospect Class

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Episode 203: The Effective Recruiting Approach for Your Big Prospects

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Episode 202: Former Auburn AD Jay Jacobs on 'The Portal Pushdown'

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Episode 201: Is It Time to Reset Your Staff Focus?

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Episode 200: Coach to Coach with Matt Doherty

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Episode 199: Developing Your System for the Recruiting Marathon

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Episode 198: What Future Coaches Are Asking About When It Comes to Recruiting

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Episode 197: Why Coaches Should Develop an Elite Mental Mindset - and How to Do It

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Episode 196: Helping Your First Generation Inner City Prospect in the Recruiting Process

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Episode 195: 4 Foundations for First Contacts in Recruiting

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Episode 194: From Rising Coach to Head Coach to Fired Coach to Championship Coach

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Episode 193: Team of Experts Q&A - Building a Cohesive Recruiting Strategy

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Episode 192: Inner Excellence for College Coaches with Best Selling Author, Jim Murphy

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Episode 191: What's the #1 Way Prospects Are Deciding? The Data Gives Us the Answer

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Episode 190: The Coming AI Revolution in College Coaching

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Episode 189: How to Help Your Athletic Director - and How They Can Help You

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Episode 188: Can Coaches Develop Winners With a High Roster Turnover?

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Episode 187: Managing the Changing Landscape of Division I Recruiting

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Episode 186: How to Change Your Prospect's Mind

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Episode 185: How to Start Recruiting International Prospects - and Why You Should Want To

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Episode 184: FAFSA, Financial Packages & Guiding Your Prospect Towards a Decision

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Episode 183: How NOT To Get Fooled by Your Prospects

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Episode 182: How to Jump Start Recruiting Communication With Fading Prospects

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Episode 181: The Role of a Strength & Conditioning Coach in Recruiting

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Episode 180: What Kind of Details Matter to Gen Z Recruits?

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Episode 179: Legendary Women's Basketball Coach Sue Semrau on Building a Legendary Coaching & Recruiting Career

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Episode 178: The Unique Needs of Gen Z Prospects

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Episode 177: A Tech Entrepreneur Didn't Like the Way His Son Was Evaluated by College Coaches. Here's What He Did About It.

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Episode 176: What the House Settlement Details Might Mean for College Athletic Departments

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Episode 175: What in the World Are Your Prospects Thinking??? with Dr Pamela Ellis

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Episode 174: What the House Settlement Ruling Means for Coaches & Athletic Directors

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Episode 173: 7 Summer Priorities for College Recruiters

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Episode 172: NIL Money in College Athletics - Is Everything Adding Up?

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Episode 171: How the NIL Marketplace Continues to Creatively Evolve

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Episode 170: The First 5 Things You Should Do to Improve Your Campus Recruiting Visits

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Episode 169: How to Maximize Your Athlete's Mental Performance

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Episode 168: 7 Big Mistakes Coaches Make on Zoom and Phone Recruiting Calls

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Episode 167: NIL - Is It Working, and What Does the Future Look Like?

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Episode 166: Pushing Back on Your Prospect's Push Back

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Episode 165: What You Should Do After You Hear a Prospect Say "No"

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Episode 164: What Is Your Mid-Year Recruiting Focus?

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Episode 163: Hitting Your Personal, Professional & Recruiting Bullseye

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Episode 162: The Need for Physical Mail in Recruiting

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Episode 161: Halftime Check In - What's Going Right & What's Going Wrong in Your Recruiting?

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Episode 160: How Successful Coaches Approach Recruiting This Generation of Prospects

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Episode 159: Coaching & Recruiting Lessons From Ted Lasso

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Episode 158: The Four Biggest Recruiting Frustrations for College Coaches (and How to Overcome Them)

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Episode 157: Moving Your Prospect Through Your Process

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Episode 156: Molly Grisham on Developing Your Student-Athletes AFTER You Recruit Them

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Episode 155: Why Are My Prospects Taking So Long to Commit?

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Episode 154: The Secret to Closing Top Prospects

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Episode 153: Inside the Mind of Today's Teenage Prospect

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Episode 152: Campus Visits, Transfer Culture & More

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Episode 151: Season 8 Premier - The Theatre of Status in Recruiting

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Episode 150: Summer Recruiting & Planning for College Coaches

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Episode 149: Your (Mostly) Complete Guide to June 15th First Contact Calls & Messages

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Episode 148: How I Won My First National Championship: A Coach's Inside Look

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Episode 147: Jim Harshaw on How Coaches Can Achieve Success Through Failure

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Episode 146: What Some Coaches May Not Know About Effective Recruiting Messaging

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Episode 145: Reinitiating Contact with Your Recruits

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Episode 144: Telling Your Recruiting Story to the Prospects You Really, Really Want

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Episode 143: Digging Into the Details of Effective Transfer Portal Recruiting

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Episode 142: The New Challenges for College Athletic Directors and the Programs They Lead

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Episode 141: Developing a Specific Recruiting Approach for Specific Recruits

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Episode 140: A Better Outlook and a Better Brand to Start 2023

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Episode 139: Maximizing Your Transfer Portal Recruiting

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Episode 138: 5 Post-COVID Recruiting Trends in College Athletics

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Episode 137: Building a Program (or a Roster) From Scratch

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Episode 136: The In's and Out's of International Recruiting in College Athletics

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Episode 135: How to Overcome These Three Common Recruiting Hurdles

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Episode 134: Establishing Recruiting Timelines and Deadlines in Less Than Ideal Circumstances

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Episode 133: Celeste Headlee on How to Have Conversations with Your Recruits

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Episode 132: 4.5 Recruiting Sales Questions Answered

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Episode 131: Overcoming Adversity and Rejection in Recruiting and Your Life as a Coach

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Episode 130: One Coach Asks, "How Would You Sell Our Program to Recruits?"

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Episode 129: Timelines, Deadlines and Your Most Important Job as a Recruiter

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Episode 128: Season 7 Premier - Branding & Social Media Expert Jayson Schmidt on Differentiating Your College Program

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Episode 127: How Athletics & Admissions Can Message Effectively to Second-Tier Prospects

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Episode 126: The Walk-On Experience in College Athletics

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Episode 125: Assessing the Mental State of Today's Athletes and Prospects

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Episode 124: Coach Evan Burk on Finding Intangibles

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Episode 123: How is NIL Affecting Recruiting at All Levels?

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Episode 122: Why Money-Based Recruiting Decisions Are Trending Up (and What to Do About It)

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Episode 121: BLM, Vaccines and Creating a Unique Team Story

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Episode 120: The Captain - Recruiting and Developing Team Leaders

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Episode 119: Six Coaches, Six Questions

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Episode 118: Assessing Your Prospect's Physical and Mental Health During Recruiting

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Episode 117: 6.5 Recruiting Priorities for Coaches | Fall 2021

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Episode 116: Defining You and Your Program to Achieve Excellence

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Episode 115: Assessing & Developing Your College Program the Right Way

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Episode 114: Program Building Lessons From a Former Cold War Nuclear Submariner

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Episode 113: 3 Additional Recruiting Strategies for After Your First Contact

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Episode 112: The Experts Recruiting Roundtable

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Episode 111: Coach Theresa Beeckman on Managing Your Culture

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Coach Gabe Bolton on Building a Successful Program Your Own Way

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Episode 109: John Brubaker On How College Coaches Can Go Beyond Stadium Status

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Episode 108: Are College Athletic Departments Ready for NIL?

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Episode 107: What Should Coaches Do When They Get Too Many Responses?

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Episode 106: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Letters Work

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Episode 105: Effective Messaging - How to Make Recruiting Emails Work

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Episode 104: Coach Justin Wickard on Recruiting This Generation of Student-Athlete

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Episode 103: What to Change for Your 2021 Recruiting Plan

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Episode 102: Jeremy Tiers & Will Patch on the Class of 2021 College Search Process Study

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Episode 101: The Successful Evolution of a Program's Recruiting Approach

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Episode 100: Should Coaches Adjust Timelines & Deadlines During the Pandemic?

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Episode 99: Body Language Expert Mark Bowden on Reading Your Prospect’s Recruiting Cues

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Episode 98: How Coaches in New Programs Can Rise to the Challenge

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Episode 97: What Coaches Can Teach Their Team by Reading "The Bus Trip"

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Episode 96: Agent Brian Stanchak on Managing Your College Coaching Career During a Crisis

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Episode 95: Making the Economic Case for Greater Investment in College Athletics

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Episode 94: Two Coaches Ask How to Design an Effective Recruiting Message

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Episode 93: A Comprehensive Look at the Name, Image & Likeness Debate

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Episode 92: Advice for Coaches Juggling Two Top Recruits Down the Stretch

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Episode 91: Tamy Matheny on Creating Confident Athletes During a Crisis

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Episode 90: Greg Earhart on the New Big Picture for College Sports

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Episode 89: The Parent and Club Coach Perspective on the Covid-19 Crisis

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Episode 88: When Is It Smart to Stop Recruiting a Prospect?

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Episode 87: John Brubaker on Business Approaches to the Current Crisis for Coaches

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Episode 86: Tim Selgo on Leadership During a Crisis and Beyond

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Episode 85: How College Coaches Are Handling the Crisis

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Episode 84: 5 Coronavirus Recruiting Priorities for College Coaches

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Episode 83: Coaching & Recruiting Lessons From the Miracle on Ice with Charlie Adams

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Episode 82: Being One Team with Your Admissions Department

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Episode 81: Effectively Branding Your Program for Recruits

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Episode 80: Making Sure You Don't Recruit the Wrong Prospect

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Episode 79: Breaking the Tie

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Episode 78: Developing Your Core Recruiting Philosophy

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Episode 77: Coach Terry Harrison on Recruiting, Coaching Football, and Balancing Family Life

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EPISODE 76: Dr. Keith Adams on Understanding What Motivates Today's Student-Athlete

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EPISODE 75: Developing a Winning Recruiting Strategy From the Ground Up

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Episode 74: 'Survivor' Finalist Lauren O'Connell On Strategy, Perseverance and Recruiting

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Episode 73: Coach Thom Park on Staging a Program Turnaround

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EPISODE 72: Winning the Home Visit

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EPISODE 71: Who Is On Your Personal Mt. Rushmore?

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Episode 70: How College Coaches Are Using Recruiting Services

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Episode 69: The Missing 20% Your Recruits Are Looking For

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Episode 68: Four Recruiting Scenarios Explained

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Episode 67: When Is the Right Time to Leave College Coaching?

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Episode 66: Branding Lessons for Coaches From Zion Williamson's Exploding Shoe

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Episode 65: Talking About Money with Your Recruits

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Episode 64: How to Recruit at Tournaments

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Episode 63: Coach Molly Grisham on Recruiting and Developing Leaders

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Episode 62: Recruiting Strategies for a New Coach at a New College

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Episode 61: Hall of Fame Coach Sue Enquist on Fixing a Broken System

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Episode 60: Are Coaches Responsible for the Happiness of Their Prospects and Players?

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Why Less is More in Recruiting

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Episode 58: How to Overcome the School Size Objection

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Episode 57: Why College Coaches Should Be Losing Sleep Over Losing Sleep

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Episode 56: How Can Coaches Differentiate Their Brand Message From Their Competition?

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Episode 55: Your First Contact with New Recruits

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Episode 54: Doubleheader - Developing a Recruiting Philosophy That Works

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Episode 53: Doubleheader - How Can Coaches Battle Prospect Objections Effectively?

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Episode 52: Dr. Amber Selking on Your Athletes' Mental Performance

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EPISODE 51: Driving with Dan - 4 Proven Early Recruiting Strategies

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Episode 50: Celia Slater on Building All Aspects of Your Coaching Leadership Resume

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EPISODE 47: Coach Yolett McCuin on Finding Joy in Your Coaching Career

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EPISODE 46: Jeff Janssen on Developing and Recruiting Leaders

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Episode 45: Developing the Right Culture in Small College Athletic Departments

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Episode 44: Initial Contact Strategy Q & A

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Episode 43: Driving with Dan - Structuring Your Messages for Immediate Responses

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Episode 42: Leading Your Prospects Out of Their Decision Paralysis

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Episode 41: Four New Strategies to Win Your Recruiting Battles

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Episode 40: Driving with Dan - Establishing Timelines & Setting Deadlines

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Episode 39: Jim Harshaw on Setting Goals to Achieve Balance as a College Coach

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Episode 38: Coach Mike Lightfoot on Saving Relationships and Finding Balance

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Episode 37: Dan Tudor on Evaluating Your Recruiting

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Episode 36: Filmmaker Drew Gabreski on Fear and Recruiting

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Episode 35: Recruiting Inner-City Prospects to Small, Rural Campuses

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Episode 34: USA Today's Dan Wolken on the Unfolding Recruiting Scandal

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Episode 33: What Happens When You Change Your Campus Recruiting Visits?

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Episode 32: The Wisdom of Jack and Max

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Episode 31: Do Your Recruits Still Care About Email?

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Episode 30: Joe Collins on How Coaches Can Tell Better Stories

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Episode 29: Coach Mandy Green on How to Get Organized

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Episode 28: Jason Oates & The Recruiting Clipboard

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Episode 27: Legendary Athletic Director Tim Selgo On His New Book "Anchor Up"

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Episode 26: Coach Matt Derosiers on Building a Championship Program Against the Odds

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Episode 25: Author John Brubaker on Earning 'Stadium Status'

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Episode 24: Coach Rob Harris on Early Recruiting

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Episode 23: Rock-n-Roll Star Jim Holvay on Learning How to Sell

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Episode 22: What Do Coaches Do When The College Cuts Their Program?

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Episode 21: Coach Morgan Randall on Becoming a College Coaching Legend

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Episode 20: Dr. Mike Davenport on College Coaching Life Philosophies

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Episode 19: Dan Tudor & Jeremy Tiers On The Problem With Most Campus Tours

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Episode 18: Jim Harshaw on College Coaching Success Through Failure

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Episode 17: Larita Wilcher On Whether the Grass Is Really Greener on the Other Side of the Coaching Career Fence

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Episode 16 - Jamy Bechler on How Coaches Become Great Leaders

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Episode 15: Mark Tewart on Recruiting Like a Car Sales Superstar

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Episode 14: SPECIAL - Jason Oates & The Recruiting Clipboard

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Episode 13: Michael Cross on Transparency Being the Key to Recruiting Reforms

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Episode 12: Mark Giganti on Pushing Your Prospect's Psychological Pause Button

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Episode 11: Tom Koller on Becoming a Great Recruiting Communicator

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Episode 10: 3-for-3 - Coaches Ask the Questions

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Episode 9: Michael Cross On Asking the Right Prospect Questions

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Episode 8: Creating a Balanced Recruiting Message

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Episode 7: Kevin Richardson on Athletes Now vs. Athletes Then

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Episode 6: Coach Erika Brennan on Turning Your Program Around

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Episode 5: Price and the Risky Work of Earning Your Prospect's Attention

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EPISODE 4: THERESA BEECKMAN ON BUILDING A WINNING TEAM CULTURE

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EPISODE 3: RECRUITING LESSONS FROM THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

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Episode 2: Coach Jeff Osterman on Effective Branding

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Episode 1: Coach Greg Earhart on Being First in Recruiting