They're No Longer Babies Let them fly solo. They’ve earned their wings, let them go. We’re talking about student-athletes. They’re now in a position of recruitment. The problem is that parents are hovering over them heavily, not giving them an ounce...

How To Handle Objections Your ego is crushed, your pride is destroyed, the parent told you over and over again they’re not interested or maybe they said no thank you.  It could be something as simple as “Don’t call us, we’ll call you if...

Success Is Measured In The Follow-Up Phone Call You’re always going to be a rockstar on your first encounter with a parent of a student-athlete. The real trouble arises when you have to make the follow-up phone call.  You begin to sink into darkness. ...

The Puzzle Of Recruiting: Not Knowing How The Pieces Fit On all levels the college recruiting process sucks. It sucks in the amount of time it requires to make all the pieces fit. It sucks because parents are spending thousands of dollars each and every year for...

More African-Americans Are Playing Quarterbacks More African-Americans are playing at quarterback and it’s not my imagination.  40 years ago, if not longer, African-American football athletes were discouraged from playing quarterback.  Their coaches changed...

Student-Athletes Are Slipping Through The Cracks The alarm bells are going off and ringing loudly because there are still talented student-athletes slipping through the cracks of the recruiting process and no one is listening. A lot of high school coaches refuse to...

Will The G League Destroy College Basketball? Will the G League destroy college basketball? I don’t think it will.  Remember when student-athletes were leaving college after one year and everyone was freaking out about it? It didn’t destroy the game....