Your First Offer

3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn how recruiting works and how to get your first college offer.

Course overview

Get Your First Offer

Your First Offer (YFO) will take you from zero knowledge of college recruiting to teaching you the ideas, strategies and tactics to generate your first college offer.

Who is this course for

01

Parents who want to leverage their kid's sport for successful admission to some of the world's top academic institutions.

02

Recruits who thinks they've got the grades, game tape and grit it takes to play college football.

03

Any HS coach eager to learn about K/P/LS recruiting process.

What you’ll get out of this course

Learn exactly how college football recruiting works

  • Key academic metrics.
  • Key athletic metrics.
  • Key ideas, strategies and tactics.
  • Key dates and timelines.

Learn exactly how to manage your social media profile

  • Optimizing your Twitter for recruiting success.
  • Designing an effective highlight tape.
  • How to create FOMO when tweeting that benefits you.
  • How to show off without being showy.

Learn exactly how to get college coaches to notice you

  • How to make first contact.
  • How to phrase requests with the highest likelihood of a reply.
  • How to keep relationships going.
  • How to nudge coaches towards a decision on you or not.

Learn how to prepare to succeed at college visits and camps

  • How camps are run and what coaches typically look for.
  • How to ask creative questions.
  • How to stand out to coaches.
  • How to avoid injury.
  • How to follow up.
  • How to dress.

Meet your instructor

Brendan Cahill

Brendan Cahill

Instructor

Past players have been offered or play at the following institutions: University of Michigan, Notre Dame University, Boston College, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Williams College, Amherst College, Tufts University, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Bucknell University, Lafayette, Pomona College and more. 

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Course syllabus

01

Recruiting 101

  • What does it athletically take to play college football as a specialist?
  • What grades do you need for various levels of college football?
  • What timelines and major events do you need to be aware of?

02

Recruiting Strategy & Tactics

  • How to optimize your Twitter for recruiting.
  • Exactly what to say to college coaches.
  • How to get invited to a Junior Day.
  • How to stay organized.
  • How to generate buzz.

03

Execution

  • Defining what success looks like for players and parents.
  • When to give up on a school that ghosted you.
  • How to stay organized.
  • How to say yes/no to a coach.
  • Avoiding burnout.

Course schedule

1.5 hours per week

  • Tuesdays

    8:00pm - 9:30pm EST

    • 60 minutes course content.
    • 30 minutes live Q and A
    • There is some flexibility here.
  • Cohort 001 Start: May 2nd, 2023

    8:00pm - 9:30pm EST


  • Weekly check-ins

    Optional

    Students have the option to check in with instructor as-needed via email as much as they'd like during the course.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops.

Interactive

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms.

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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