John Pennington enters his seventh year as the Head Coach at West Virginia State University in 2023. Pennington was named head coach in the Spring of 2017 and promptly proceeded to lead the program to its first winning season in a decade. Today, we talk about recruiting in the portal, how the focus has changed, tools to help find the right student-athletes for your program, building culture in a constantly changing roster, and NIL. Show Notes: -Small College recruiting -Finding ways to be efficient -Changes - The transfer portal -Catapult Recruit -How changes have affected the focus -Bringing new players into the system -How portal affects culture -Focus on developing players and building relationships -Best features of the technology -Developing as a coach -Being intentional in development as a coach -Keeping things simple -Dealing with losses -Process of Simplifying - Reverse engineer -NIL in Division II -Be Sports https://www.besportsgroup.com/ -NIL as an education opportunity Related Episodes: John Pennington - Small Wins = Big Gains https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/small-wins-equal-big-gains-john-pennington-head-coach-at-west-virginia-state-university John Pennington - Six Keys for Red Zone Success https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/six-keys-for-red-zone-success-john-pennington-head-coach-west-virginia-state John Pennington’s RPO Course: https://coachtube.com/course/football/john-pennington-rpo-offense/11751906?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763 Catapult Sports Thunder Cloud Recruiting Service: https://www.catapultsports.com/solutions/xos/recruiting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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