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Brendan Cahill

Actionable tips, ideas and strategies to help you move the needle on your recruiting.

7 Mistakes To Avoid On A Visit

Dec 15, 2025

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4 min read

7 Mistakes To Avoid On A Visit

Recruiting visits matter. Here are 7 common mistakes players and parents make.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Don't Transfer

Dec 3, 2025

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3 min read

Don't Transfer

Common Mistakes Every Transfer Makes

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill

Recruiting

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What’s a GPA, anyway?

Nov 29, 2025

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2 min read

What’s a GPA, anyway?

How to (and not to) post your grades on X

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The Real ROI Of College

Nov 27, 2025

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2 min read

The Real ROI Of College

When you pay for college, you are buying “future money” (sorta)

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill

Recruiting

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Most Of Recruiting Is About Appearing To Be Recruited

Nov 26, 2025

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4 min read

Most Of Recruiting Is About Appearing To Be Recruited

Why recruiting in 2025 is largely performative (but then again, it always has been)

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Would love your feedback

Nov 25, 2025

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1 min read

Would love your feedback

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
You Need a Watchable Highlight Tape. Here’s Exactly How.

Nov 17, 2025

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5 min read

You Need a Watchable Highlight Tape. Here’s Exactly How.

2-3 minutes. Starts with your best play. Clean. Watchable. Coach-ready.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The Reality Gap: Why Most Football Recruiting Dreams Fail (And How to Close It)

Nov 14, 2025

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9 min read

The Reality Gap: Why Most Football Recruiting Dreams Fail (And How to Close It)

Why high school players round up, college coaches round down, and the perceptual mismatch drives recruiting heartbreak

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Make College Concrete

Nov 5, 2025

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3 min read

Make College Concrete

For years, we tell high‐achieving scholar athletes to prepare for a place they’ve never lived, with people they’ve never met, doing work they’ve never done.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Pro or Amateur → Your Choice

Oct 31, 2025

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3 min read

Pro or Amateur → Your Choice

Pro's see a problem coming down the tracks and do something about it. Amateurs don't.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Your Expectations Are The Problem

Oct 27, 2025

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3 min read

Your Expectations Are The Problem

Why moving on from "D1 or Bust" is so difficult

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Be Great Now. Recruiting Will Follow

Oct 14, 2025

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3 min read

Be Great Now. Recruiting Will Follow

Recruiting is a paradox. The more you worry about it, the more difficult it becomes.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The Cold-Warm-Hot Recruiting Matrix

Jul 10, 2025

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3 min read

The Cold-Warm-Hot Recruiting Matrix

How to Cut the Fluff, Triple Down on Real Interest, and Land Your Perfect Fit Without Banking on Miracles

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The Rudy Myth

Jul 4, 2025

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3 min read

The Rudy Myth

We love the story of Rudy because it's not true.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Projecting Potential

Mar 13, 2025

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3 min read

Projecting Potential

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
How To Get Recruited Without An X Account in 2025A few thoughts:

Mar 12, 2025

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3 min read

How To Get Recruited Without An X Account in 2025A few thoughts:

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Things I learned about recruiting, coaching and other stuff this week

Mar 11, 2025

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3 min read

Things I learned about recruiting, coaching and other stuff this week

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
What They’d Do Differently

Mar 1, 2025

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3 min read

What They’d Do Differently

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The College Conversation Needs To Start Sooner For Recruited Student-Athletes

Feb 25, 2025

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3 min read

The College Conversation Needs To Start Sooner For Recruited Student-Athletes

Take college from a concept to something concrete; Get boots on the ground; Get your kid's wheels turning while there's still time to make academic, athletic course corrections in their HS careers

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The Recruiting Valley of “Meh”

Feb 12, 2025

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3 min read

The Recruiting Valley of “Meh”

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Recruiting - A Ladder That Only Gets Taller

Feb 7, 2025

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3 min read

Recruiting - A Ladder That Only Gets Taller

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
How To Sell Yourself Without Being "Salesy" In A Sports World That Values Humility

Jan 11, 2025

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3 min read

How To Sell Yourself Without Being "Salesy" In A Sports World That Values Humility

The biggest skill you can take away from recruiting is learning how to toot your own horn, tactfully.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
The hidden truth about recruiting "success" stories

Jan 4, 2025

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3 min read

The hidden truth about recruiting "success" stories

Why it's about more than just hard work.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
Likes Ain’t Offers

Dec 30, 2024

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3 min read

Likes Ain’t Offers

3 Things Junior Days Can & Can’t Do For Your Recruiting

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
How To Tell What A Coach Actually Means

Nov 27, 2024

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3 min read

How To Tell What A Coach Actually Means

Recruiting shows us starkly that two people can hear the same thing and come to totally different conclusions.

Brendan Cahill
Brendan Cahill
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