One hour, two very different problems

Not a monthly retainer, not a course. One conversation built around their exact situation.

Two families hired me for one hour each this June. Not a package. Not a monthly retainer. One conversation.

Both their daughters committed to top D1 programs within two weeks of that call.

That’s by design. The Strategy Session is one hour, on purpose. No package, no standing commitment, no retainer to renew. Because the thing families are actually missing isn’t more information or more access. It’s someone who knows the college coach side sitting with their exact situation for an hour and helping them think their way through it.

Here’s what that looked like for these two families.

Family one came to me before June 15, on the front end of the process rather than deep into it. Her parents could already see offers were going to move at different speeds once contact opened, and they worried her quiet personality might work against her in those early calls.

We spent the hour on two things: how to think about timelines and offers before they even arrived, and how she talked about herself. I asked her the kind of questions I’d have asked a recruit when I was a college coach; not about stats, but about her personality. Specific stories instead of rehearsed lines. What she’d say about a weakness. Her leadership style. What she actually wanted to know about a program before deciding.

Her mom put it this way afterward:

“Alan asked our daughter questions that he would ask when coaching at the college level, and our daughter got to answer them in an authentic environment while also shaking off the nerves. It also gave her things to really think about.”

On the quiet-versus-loud worry, I told her that quiet isn't a flaw. It's a feature of who she is, not something to fix before a call. Rather than trying to perform a loud, extroverted version of herself to impress coaches, she was better off leaning into her actual style, the kind of leadership that shows up in how she supports a teammate one-on-one. That's not something a blog post can hand you, because it isn't universal. The same advice would be wrong for a kid who thrives being loud and out front.

Family two came to me at the end of June, after the post-June-15th wave had already hit. Calls, offers, a full inbox, and no clear way to sort through any of it.

They didn’t need someone to prepare them for what was coming. They needed someone to help them make sense of what had already landed: which programs were worth staying in on, how to handle the pressure tactics and fake deadlines coaches lean on, how to tune out the noise around other recruits’ commitments, and how to prep for NCCs by engaging with schools that had shown interest, rather than chasing those who hadn’t.

“He gave us a no-nonsense, realistic view of the current recruiting environment, while also helping us decode what certain coaches and schools were actually telling our daughter, directly or through signals. That helped us prioritize the schools that were the best fit for her.”

Neither family walked away with a binder of generic advice. They walked away with a decision framework built for their daughter, made by someone who’s sat on the other side of the recruiting desk and knows what coaches mean when they say the things they say.

That’s the entire premise of The Strategy Session. One hour, one family, one specific situation - not a template stretched to fit everyone.

If it sounds like something that could help on your recruiting journey, book some time on my calendar and we can start figuring it out together.

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