The recruiting process starts before the club season starts. As athletes switch clubs and join new ones at the start of the high school...

*Originally Published on 04/07/2022 I've made it clear from the beginning of these new recruiting rules that I wasn't a fan of them. In...

*Originally Posted 6/29/2020 (edited 9/25/2023) This is a question that I heard a college coach ask an athlete this week and I think it's a great question for a variety of reasons. It's one of those questions where you can't just answer "yes or no" and you are forced into giving a "why" to really explain your answer. The question is partially about the answer, but it is probably more about how you come to your answer. First I wanted to throw out some reasons a coach is goi

It's never "too early" to start your recruiting process. The flip side of that is also true! It's never "too late" to start your...

*Originally posted 3/2/2020 My short answer is "No, they are Super-Human." I can remember my graduate assistant on the first day of the...

It's a great sport and I love it, but the sport doesn't define me and it shouldn't define you.

I hear this all the time - "It seems that recruiting has gotten really quiet lately" "Recruiting has gotten quiet" "Coaches seem to have gone quiet" The explanation for things getting quiet from athletes and families is that the fall college volleyball season has started and college coaches are busy. To be totally fair, there is and can be some truth to this. The fall season is busy. College coaches do like to focus on training, film, opponent prep, travel and other logist

Originally posted on 12/14/2020 Sometimes you just forget to turn the lights on...it happens to me all the time. Not usually with lights, but for me its music. I can sit at my computer in silence for a solid 30 minutes forgetting to turn my music back on. Usually it's after I get off the phone or something else that made me pause my music. But something hits me and tells me "it's too quiet!" and it gets me to turn Spotify back on so I can have that background noise I usual

Now I know that some (a lot) of this is going to change with all the craziness happening with conference realignment right now - I don't...

*Originally posted, April 18th, 2022. I am reposting this to start the college season because I think that when you have as many upsets...

In short and in my opinion, no, they shouldn't. If you haven't read "You Only Need One Offer" then go read that blog post as well. First,...

What happens when the best player on your team makes a verbal commitment? Well, the mass amount of college coaches that were there, simply stop showing up. It turns out that all of those college coaches that were coming to your court were really only watching 1 athlete. This was an observation made by one of my athletes. After their first match at Nationals in Chicago, she quickly noticed that something had changed in the spectators around her court. College coaches. Th

*Originally posted (5/27/2022) Older posts will sometimes be unarchived and made available to everyone if the topic is relevant to...

This might not be a popular opinion, but...there it is. To quote Coach Lisle, "All it takes is one coach that believes in you." You only...

In a similar way that I tackled the notion of college coaches watching your film in a blog post a few weeks ago, I want to talk about...

June 15th contact day

One of the several issues that my former AD and myself ran into was the he apparently believed that every athlete SHOULD be able to play...

Posted originally on 10/18/2022* In many situations rules and regulations fall across the board. Every school must follow certain...

While I mostly write about volleyball, I saw this story about other football coaches criticizing Coach Sanders at Colorado and the way it...

One thing that makes June 15th a smoother process for everyone is having the correct contact information available for college coaches. I...