SimpleCoach D3 Soccer YouTube Channel

[PaulNewman]

SC, please ignore and excuse my faux pas if I am intruding on hypersensitive internal intel, but I'm curious at this juncture in the life cycle of the SC "Coach to Coach" phenomenon what % of your coach interviews are generated from....

A)  A personal, individualized invite from the Godfather of the D3 Soccer Media Industrial Complex

B)  A less personal but still very warm missive with a dollop of humor to a group (like a group of conference coaches)

C)  "Word of mouth" referrals whereby, as an example, coach at East Mechanicsburg State has good experience and suggests that coach at Southern Mennonite Utah Valley give you a ring

D) Coaches now initiating contact with you requesting to be interviewed based on seeing success with your interviews across the spectrum (men's and women's programs, national champs, nationally prominent programs, lesser known programs, excellent geographic diversity, etc) and hearing tales of some coaches experiencing upwards of a 5000% increase in recruiting inquiries

[SimpleCoach]

SC, please ignore and excuse my faux pas if I am intruding on hypersensitive internal intel, but I'm curious at this juncture in the life cycle of the SC "Coach to Coach" phenomenon what % of your coach interviews are generated from....

A)  A personal, individualized invite from the Godfather of the D3 Soccer Media Industrial Complex

B)  A less personal but still very warm missive with a dollop of humor to a group (like a group of conference coaches)

C)  "Word of mouth" referrals whereby, as an example, coach at East Mechanicsburg State has good experience and suggests that coach at Southern Mennonite Utah Valley give you a ring

D) Coaches now initiating contact with you requesting to be interviewed based on seeing success with your interviews across the spectrum (men's and women's programs, national champs, nationally prominent programs, lesser known programs, excellent geographic diversity, etc) and hearing tales of some coaches experiencing upwards of a 5000% increase in recruiting inquiries

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[SimpleCoach]

SC, please ignore and excuse my faux pas if I am intruding on hypersensitive internal intel, but I'm curious at this juncture in the life cycle of the SC "Coach to Coach" phenomenon what % of your coach interviews are generated from....

A)  A personal, individualized invite from the Godfather of the D3 Soccer Media Industrial Complex

B)  A less personal but still very warm missive with a dollop of humor to a group (like a group of conference coaches)

C)  "Word of mouth" referrals whereby, as an example, coach at East Mechanicsburg State has good experience and suggests that coach at Southern Mennonite Utah Valley give you a ring

D) Coaches now initiating contact with you requesting to be interviewed based on seeing success with your interviews across the spectrum (men's and women's programs, national champs, nationally prominent programs, lesser known programs, excellent geographic diversity, etc) and hearing tales of some coaches experiencing upwards of a 5000% increase in recruiting inquiries

Kidding.

I don't know how it breaks down % wise, so I will give color on each.

A.  I generally reach out to someone because they have been mentioned, or I watched their team and really enjoyed, or their is an intersection of a personal connection with someone who I know.  I always reach out individually, and don't blast emails.  Partly because I think I would be afraid of asking 10 coaches, all 10 saying yes, and me scrambling to figure out a schedule that would work.  Like all Global Multimedia empires like mine, I've had to get rid of a ton of staff, so while I we get paid the same, we are doing 4x the work.

B.  See the previous one.

C.  So this happens a lot. A coach will say you should speak with these couple coaches who they know/are tight with and I will reach out.  Some say yes, others have declined saying its not their thing, then there is the Kenyon Coach who wont respond to me.

D.  This is happening more frequently and actually welcome it.  I've sort of gone through the most recognized coaches/programs at least those who wanted to be interviewed, but there are so many more out there.  If someone is waiting for me to reach out, they stand a better chance of pinging me, where I have never said no. 

E.  There are coaches that I will not initiate a conversation with.  Mostly because of how their teams play.  Think we discussed this group.  But if they emailed me .... see previous one.

F.  Would love to do some roundtable type discussions, but hard to coordinate.  Don't want for the content to get stale, or at least be a one trick pony, hence things like Around D3, and the Emmy Award nominated season surprise, The New Show.... Which is under union contract laws right now, so trying to work with the talent for a second season.  They only want red M&Ms in their dressing room.  Can you believe that?

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[PaulNewman]

Don't want for the content to get stale, or at least be a one trick pony, hence things like Around D3, and the Emmy Award nominated season surprise, The New Show.... Which is under union contract laws right now, so trying to work with the talent for a second season.  They only want red M&Ms in their dressing room.  Can you believe that?

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I feel your pain.  Media moguls like yourself certainly have to deal with a lot more than the glitz and glamour.  Especially in recent years.  It is extremely difficult to find talent these days that is not deeply infected with the dreaded virus....malignant narcissism (MALNAR-23).

With that said...

https://www.life-savers.com/gummies

[PaulNewman]

Found something more painful than being a Kenyon fan....being a diehard Boston Celtics fan. Just brutal.

And if SC can get Joe Mazzula I wanna hop on.

[SimpleCoach]

This one goes down as a Classic SC2C.  Where else can D3 Soccer, the movie Zulu and the Llangollen International Music Festival unite two strangers? 

An SC2C with Alun Oliver, Head Men's Coach at St. Mary's College if Maryland

[Kuiper]

I'm sure this news is what caused the server to overheat earlier today:

Congrats to Simple Player #2 on committing to RPI!  Getting recruited by RPI is a testament to his outstanding intellect and soccer ability.  Would we be correct in inferring that he gets at least one of  these things from his mother? 

https://twitter.com/SC149249/status/1651557171824406528?s=20

[PaulNewman]

Hey, congrats, my friend!  My in-laws are a big RPI family.

Thank goodness he picked a couple of easy majors.

And I can hear our LL fans cheering about the collateral media attention their schools (ummm...SLU) will be getting as a consequence.

[stlawus]

Hey, congrats, my friend!  My in-laws are a big RPI family.

Thank goodness he picked a couple of easy majors.

And I can hear our LL fans cheering about the collateral media attention their schools (ummm...SLU) will be getting as a consequence.

You said it, not me!

[SimpleCoach]

Thank you all.  Appreciate the kind words.  Excited to see what this all brings ... I tried to go to Financial Aid and see what kind of kick back I would get for all the RPI content I will be doing in the next four years ... clearly they do not appreciate all of my YouTube influencing....

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[SimpleCoach]

I enjoyed getting the opportunity to talk to Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental College.  Always interesting to get the perspective of a coach from the West coast.

Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental

[NEPAFAN]

This one goes down as a Classic SC2C.  Where else can D3 Soccer, the movie Zulu and the Llangollen International Music Festival unite two strangers? 

An SC2C with Alun Oliver, Head Men's Coach at St. Mary's College if Maryland

Okay the Zulu reference has me intrigued!

[bubbabeans]

I enjoyed getting the opportunity to talk to Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental College.  Always interesting to get the perspective of a coach from the West coast.

Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental

Very exciting to see west coast schools getting the SC treatment. And I need to say that the Oxy ID Camp was by far the best experience my player had during the soccer recruitment process -- individualized feedback from coaches, a nice variety of schools represented, and fantastic weather. If things had worked out to where my player had picked Oxy, I would have been very happy. Coach Lafaurie was pure class throughout the whole thing.

[SimpleCoach]

I enjoyed getting the opportunity to talk to Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental College.  Always interesting to get the perspective of a coach from the West coast.

Rod Lafaurie, Head Men's Coach at Occidental

Very exciting to see west coast schools getting the SC treatment. And I need to say that the Oxy ID Camp was by far the best experience my player had during the soccer recruitment process -- individualized feedback from coaches, a nice variety of schools represented, and fantastic weather. If things had worked out to where my player had picked Oxy, I would have been very happy. Coach Lafaurie was pure class throughout the whole thing.

May I ask, where did he choose to go?  Maybe I see an SC2C interview on the horizon....

SC

[jfreddys]

That was such a great interview.  Thanks SC.   

If you want to have a true sense of the DIII socal mentality, Coach Rod nailed it. 

Agree with bubba beans comments on the camp.   And should also state, he was one of the few who figured out how to run them during Covid.   Unfortunately, there were limitations in place but with things so significantly restricted out here during that period, his camps were appreciated by many.