We’ve seen a similar trend play out over the last few summers. May and June tend to be moderately busy, with changes made in aftermath of spring sports like baseball and softball wrapping up. July is rather sleepy. Then, August hits like a tidal wave. August often ends up being Read more…
The May 2024 update was completed and sent out to our customers yesterday. In total, there were 4,432 changes made across all of our databases of college coaches’ contact information — a number that is large, but is about average for a typical month. Here is the breakdown of those Read more…
One of the best things about having a healthy, growing customer base is the feedback we get from our customers when something appears off. For instance, this month we heard from a customer who had purchased several different databases that we were missing a bunch of different schools — with Read more…
The March 2024 update had one of the highest rates of turnover over the last calendar year. A total of 10,221 changes were made. There were 4,210 people who were added to our databases, and 3,796 who were removed. The remaining 2,215 changes were pieces of information that was altered Read more…
The period stretching from mid-December to early January is usually rather slow for changes within our databases of college coaches’ contact information, as there isn’t a ton of movement over the holidays. Football is the exception. There were 894 changes made in the January update of the Contact College Coaches Read more…
One of my favorite stories I’ve read in the last few weeks was ESPN’s article about Washington football coach Kalen DeBoer and his trajectory in going from building an NAIA powerhouse at Sioux Falls to the becoming the head coach of a team about to play Michigan for the National Read more…
The October 2023 update was relatively well balanced, without a single sport or handful of sports making up the majority of changes. But there was still a significant amount of movement, with 5,923 total changes made. That equates to a 6.24% rate-of-change across all of the Contact College Coaches databases Read more…
The September 2023 update was the busiest on record, with 15,543 total changes made across every sport that we offer. There was a whopping 16.14 percent rate-of-change. In total, 4,414 people were removed from our databases — and 11,129 people were either added or had at least one piece of Read more…
Sometimes, when an update is underway, I think, “Wow, this is flying. We’re going so fast.” July was not one of those months. Like June, there were a ton of updates in July. No wonder it felt like it was taking ages to complete. Here is the breakdown. Total changes made, across all Read more…
One of the primary questions I receive from prospective customers is about our updating process: how we update our data, how we make sure it’s accurate and how often we update it. We update it once-per-month, and send those updates to our customers via email. They usually land in their Read more…