#TudorTuesday | July 28th | 2026
by Dan Tudor | Tudor Collegiate Strategies
Anyone who’s gone fishing before will tell you that maintaining control and reeling in consistently, with strength as well as a little personal touch at just the right time, is going to land you the one you’ve been aiming for.
It’s the same for you, Coach: Your job as a college recruiter is to lead the conversation, and lead your prospect through the process. Period.
Nobody else can do it as well as you, and your prospect doesn’t want anyone else trying to do that! It’s essential, in their mind, that you…
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by Mandy Green | Tudor Collegiate Strategies
Have you ever reached Friday afternoon knowing you worked hard all week, yet struggled to name what actually moved forward?
Practice plans were finished, emails were answered, and meetings happened. Meanwhile, the recruiting conversations, staff decisions, or personal priorities that mattered most were pushed aside by whatever demanded your attention first.
I lived this pattern for years as a coach. I would begin Monday with…
by Dan Tudor | Tudor Collegiate Strategies
There’s an old sales technique called “Feel, Felt, Found.”
You’ve probably heard some version of it before.
“I understand how you feel.”
“Other people have felt the same way.”
“Here’s what they found after they looked at it more closely.”
It’s been taught in sales training for decades because, at its core, it works. But the problem is that it often sounds exactly like you think a sales technique would sound when people use it too much of the time…you can almost hear the gears turning as the salesperson waits for you to finish talking so they can deliver the three lines they memorized during some big corporate training seminar.
That version isn’t very useful in recruiting.
The principle behind it, though, is something I think every college coach should understand and utilize - because your recruits, just like the average customer in a sales situation - needs to be redirected, and wants to be redirected…
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