Dallas Jaussi is the Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at the California State University-Los Angeles. Cal State LA is a NCAA Division II institution that is located in Los Angeles, California. They are a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association along with programs at Cal Poly Pomona, University of California at San Diego and California State University-San Bernardino.  

Before coming to Cal State LA, Dallas coached youth soccer both at the HS and club levels as well as assisted at the University of California-Irvine (UC Irvine). Before his coaching career began, Dallas played collegiately and professionally with the Seattle Sounders and Madison Dragons. All these experiences brought him to Cal State LA, where he has been a part of a successful team winning back to back CCAA tournament titles as well as making it to the NCAA finals in 2019. Being ranked #2 in the country has been an amazing accomplishment and something that Dallas and the rest of the team and staff at Cal State LA would like to continue. 

During our chat, Dallas and I talk about what made his team so successful and what challenges that he has faced as a coach in relation to success. He also shares some great tips for athletes on how they can stay on top of their physical fitness and mental health during this unprecedented time. In addition to those great tips, Dallas also shares some Dos and Don’ts of recruiting along with other ways to keep up with the process. This was a fun conversation with tips and stories that you do not want to miss!

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Dallas Jaussi: Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at the California State University-Los Angeles

Topic 1: Coach Jaussi’s Coaching Background:

Dallas talks about how he sort of “fell” into coaching as a career by starting out doing it part time at the club level.  He fell in love with coaching others at the different levels and hasn’t looked back. 

Topic 2: Where did Dallas get his Coaching Style from? What is the rewarding Aspects of Coaching?

Dallas shares with us how he learned to be the coach he is today and some of the people he’s learned from. He also explains what makes coaching so rewarding for him and how that pushes him to continue to be the best he can.

Topic 3: What are some Coaching Challenges?

Coach Jaussi talks about the challenges of coaching and how those can also fit into his coaching style and how that was shaped.  He shares his approach to these challenges and how he’s worked through them.

Topic 4: Dallas shares a Recap of their 2019 Season

Dallas gets to relive their amazing 2019 season and making it to the NCAA Final and how they worked through all the positives and challenges throughout the year to make for an amazing season. Check it out!

Topic 5: What Makes a Team Successful: Mental Toughness or Talent?

After coming off back to back successful seasons, Dallas talks about the mental toughness of his players and how that plays into the success a team will see. Listen to him chat about how they overcame challenges and used their talents to keep pushing each other to be their best.

Topic 6: Tips to Staying Physically Fit in Your Off Season/Downtime:

Dallas talks about some great tips to make sure that they stay fit and not let that slide. His thoughts on going from 0-60 when you’re able to get back onto the field can cause injuries and be an issue, so he wants athletes to know that they should try to keep up with their fitness first.

Topic 7: Tips to Staying Mentally Active in your Off Season/Downtime:

Coach Jaussi talks about the mental aspect of the game and know that everyone is in the same boat, so now is a good time to stay focused and release some stress and anxiety about the quarantine.  He also jumps into some recruiting suggestions.

Topic 8: Recruiting Tips and Suggestions:

Dallas expands his suggestions in keeping your recruiting dreams alive by making sure that you are keeping in communication with coaches during this time. He also eases your mind on the fact that coaches are still recruiting and still checking emails/making phone calls and staying on top of things as well, so not all is lost yet, just keeping up with it.

Topic 9: Recruiting Dos and Don’ts According to Dallas:

Coach Jaussi finishes off his interview with some solid Dos and Don’ts in communication for recruiting purposes. Biggest tips are shared here so you can make sure that coaches know what to do with your emails. Also...always know who you are emailing 🙂

Thank you so much Coach Jaussi for joining us for this interview and providing recruiting guidance as well as great coaching advice!

Jess Gregory  

All right, everybody. Thanks for sitting down with us today. I have coach Dallas Jaussi with us here. How are we doing today? Dallas,

Dallas Jaussi  

doing well. Glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me and excited to have a good discussion.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah, absolutely. I'm looking forward to learning a little bit more about you. So I kind of want to start off in here how you got into coaching.

Dallas Jaussi  

I got into coaching. When I was 28. I've been played soccer my whole life competitively and, you know, got to a pretty good level and then ended up graduating from college. And moving out to Los Angeles and getting in touch with a club out here kind of randomly, not really thinking of getting into coaching, just kind of doing it while I had some spare time and just kind of fell in love with it really, really enjoyed the process of you know, teaching people and teaching players what I knew, both on the men's and the women's both was great for me and just I just loved that interaction. It was an interaction that, you know, when I was a player, I had always really enjoyed I've always really enjoyed the interactions I had with some of my coaches and, and I really knew that the kind of influence a coach had on me for good and bad, and I knew that it was a real a real rewarding thing to be a player have a coach like believe in you and teach you and stuff and so when I became a coach, I was like, I'm gonna be that type of coach and then I just kind of fell in love with that process. I could have probably been any sport and I would have enjoyed coaching but I just love soccer and I've played soccer my whole life so and now it's been 36 now so it's eight years of full time, you know, full time coaching and doing it at a high level and competing at a high level and training players at high levels but at all walks of life, you know, from you 10 boys to you know, obviously with Cal State LA and in UC Irvine before that on the men's side. So it's been a really rewarding experience and I love it. I love coaching and I love Interacting with the player is something that I'm missing currently right now. So,

Jess Gregory  

yeah, that's gonna make it tough for sure. Yeah. So now Do you have any coaches that you've worked with or maybe that you've watched or have coached you that you kind of emulate their style?

Dallas Jaussi  

It's a good question. Um, I, I will say this, and I'm sure a lot of my coaching colleagues will probably say the same thing is, you really steal a lot of things from other coaches, you kind of become a thief, and you steal the things that that work for you as a person instead, like I can't, there are certain things that certain coaches do that I've worked with that I could copy but it would come off really insincere, and it will come off. Like, it doesn't really fit me as a person and my personality and who I am as a person. So you have to kind of I've had to be really careful and like Oh, I like that because just because I like maybe something that they do. It may not really Work with what I think how the game should be played or I may not really work with my own personality or, or how I interact with certain coaches or certain players. So, there I've been really, really lucky to work with a lot of good coaches really early in my career. And especially my college career, you know, Cristobal at UC Irvine, Yossi Roz, who had just had come off a huge year division to Cal Poly Pomona, and now with Christianity's who is, you know, a real, you know, very intelligent. How he approaches the game has been really rewarding for me, and it's really, and all these coaches that I've worked with have all affected me positively. So there are certain things that I like, and certain things that I know that I'm like, Oh, I would like that. But I just know you start knowing yourself as a coach and you realize, you can't, you can't do what they do because that's them. But I what I one thing that I will say that I've taken from All the coaches is they all have a different view of how the game should be played, or what, what what they prioritize. And I just tried to take those things that I like that that match my ideals and principles for how I think soccer should be played. And then I just kind of run with it from there. And so I think that's probably the one of the most rewarding things about coaching is, you know, learning and growing as a coach from really high level high level coaches. 

Jess Gregory  

So can you describe your coaching style?

Dallas Jaussi  

I think it's always a work in progress. And, you know, if I look back on myself as a coach, you know, in when I was 30, you know, I had already had some success as a coach winning winning things, but, you know, I look back now even though I had some success as a coach, I really had no clue what I was doing. I was so young in the coaching I didn't like I didn't knew that I wanted to fill players with confidence, I knew I didn't want my players to think that I was their enemy. Like I knew that like to my core, I didn't know how to like I didn't know how to really teach the game, you know, in a way that was effective. So I kind of felt like I was like jumping from thing to thing. And I quit my players enjoyed coming to training because you know, I was enthusiastic and I wanted them to do well but I think over time, what I've noticed is my style of coaching has become much more sharper, it's become much more condensed, almost as if it was a flame thrower, and I just dialed it in to be a really crisp flame. And so over the years I continue to try to refine that so I would think my coaching style is, is very player oriented. I'm, I'm I care very much about the players and I try to eliminate certain things that I know aren't necessary for the players like I try not to Try not to give them too much to worry about in terms of training, like I want them to be really clear on the things that are important, very few principles, you know, four or five principles that are super important for us. And then I kind of let them cut loose and do what they want to do. So I don't want to overload the players so much, I don't want to overload them and be like, you have to remember this, this this, this this because as a player, there's so much to do in soccer, there's so much going on that you can't really have them overthinking. You just want them to you, you just don't want them thinking you just want them reacting and playing. So that's become a real, rewarding processes, getting my getting my principles and what I think are important, concise and clear. So the players understand it, but I don't overwhelm them at the same time. And so that when they play, they have these foundational principles, but then they can just kind of come up with they want the example I use is, hey, what these principles are, we're building A house. And then you guys fill the house with all the furniture, like, that's your thing, like, we're just gonna build the house. And then you guys, whatever else you want. Yeah, so, and if I can focus on those things, then my training sessions are better. My interactions with the players are, I don't contradict myself. And, you know, I don't find myself painting myself into it, I don't get painted into a corner and come up with something. So that's been that's probably how my styles evolved more and more. And I know if we have this conversation 10 years from now, I'm sure it'll be refined again at some point as well. So and that's just kind of, you know, that's where I'm at right now in my coaching journey.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah. Yeah, I always love to hear about how coaches like make their style work. I started coaching when I was 18. So obviously, I've changed a lot from then. Um, so it's pretty cool to hear that we're always growing and always learning more but still kind of trying to find what makes you know, our style. Unique even though there's earning So,

Dallas Jaussi  

yeah, absolutely. I think that's what coaching soccer coaching in general has really captured. You know, I've heard this phrase before it's like it captures your imagination like coaching soccer captures my imagination, like it gives me a focus that I don't, that I've never really had and and how to improve myself and how to improve my own craft but also finding better ways to really reach the players that I coach not just to soccer players but as people. So yeah, it's a it's a really all encompassing thing. It's like, you get the satisfaction of being around soccer, and you get satisfaction of teaching and, and having a real positive influence on the people that you coach. So it's, it's very satisfying. It's a deeply satisfying profession for me. And, you know, I look forward to the years ahead.

Jess Gregory  

That's good. After this past year, we really want you to keep going.

Dallas Jaussi  

You know what, after this past year, I was like, You know what? I'm on the right track.

Jess Gregory  

Absolutely. Alright, so you talked about what makes coaching rewarding for you. Can you talk a little bit about some of the challenges that you've, you've seen in your coaching career?

Dallas Jaussi  

Yeah. I think a lot of it, a lot of the challenges come from the expectations that you you have for maybe staff members that you're working with, or other coaches within your club, or your own players as well, like you have maybe these expectations. And I think it's always good to have high expectations. But when you're dealing soccer is a very soccer coaching. is a is a is a relationships, business. It's all about relationships. It's it's a people first industry. So if you aren't unwilling and we get a lot of these these calls, Comments when people like you know this this coach was unwavering in his determination and he never budged on everything, you know, those are all really that's like it's like gaslighting to me. It doesn't. It's like It's like hyper bullet. And I think in our society, we look at that and say, that's great. But a lot of challenges come from the relationships that we have between our coaches and players and the parents that we interact with. So I think that he has been really those are where the challenges are. And if you can approach if you can approach soccer and soccer coaching in general, with the in mind of like no one is going to think the way you do know everyone has different experiences and different ways of problem solving. And find ways to communicate with them and communicate your ideas in a way that lets that person know that you don't think you know everything and you still searching out for better ways of doing things then I think everyone can kind of just get along and everyone is everyone wants the same thing is you know Especially at our level at Cal State LA, we want to win as many soccer games as we can. That's just period. And we don't we don't talk about being undefeated, we just were like, Look, we have a process. And we want to follow this process, the best way that we can. And if everyone is on board with that, then you have some harmony. And there's all there's all these other, there's all these other small challenges these these other variables that, you know, we deal with on a daily basis, like facilities, like, what's the field? What fields gonna be like, you know, fundraising, you know, how are we going to how are we going to pay for these things? So there are challenges that even are outside of soccer coaches that just kind of come with the territory? Yeah. But I think the biggest challenges have come from just the interpersonal relationships that you have with every everyone you're dealing with. And if you can find a way to work with work within those parameters, you know, you you can kind of get over things pretty quickly. And But yeah, I think that's my the biggest challenges that I face is Those things,

Jess Gregory  

if that makes sense for sure. Now, I'm going to go back because I want to hear about this this season that you guys just had. Can you share a little bit with us about how awesome your season was, and you don't have to humble brag here, you can totally, totally brag about it. 

Dallas Jaussi  

You guys can look it up. I mean, so it's I don't have to brag about it. So we, you know, we, it was my second year with Cal State LA our first year, my first year in 2018. was very rewarding. We were we repeated as conference champions, conference tournament champions. We went to the second round of the NCAA, we had a bunch of all Americans. So in my first year, I was like, it was a great year, but you could get the sense you could get the sense with this team, and how many returners we had, and how everyone kind of bought into what we were doing that as coaches that if we could just make the right decisions, if we could just do the right trainings if we could really manage the team correctly, man manage them that we always we always told the team we said like, you know, you guys are the resources like we're the jockeys. So you guys need to like when it's time to go full out, you go full out. And if it's not time you need to listen to us. So we tried to really manage the group as best that we can, both mentally and physically so that on game day, they were peeking on game day. And there's a lot that goes into that a lot of staff meetings, a lot of planning a lot of discussion about what's the best way to move forward within the week, a lot of scouting, which was a huge thing that I did the last two years is just scout the opponent as much as possible. And so we can prepare the team as best we can. So it was I think, what I learned this year and as we went further and further the NCAA and ended up getting to the national final, being undefeated, getting to the national final, you know, being ranked in the top 10 you know, and then you know, obviously being ranked number two in the country. You know, having the best defense in the country, like, once we got to that point and we hadn't lost, looking back on the year before kick off of the final, you just realize what it takes to get there. The things that you have how consistent you must be, to get to that point. And, and so that and that takes a lot of discipline and it takes a lot of mental strength because, you know, at some points, you think to yourself, let's just cut some corners here. Let's just take a shortcut here, and you just can't do it. You can't do it not if you want to be in that the last game of the year, you want to be there you really have to make the right decisions all year. And, you know, it just came down to that last game and we played a really talented trawl. Charleston college, university, sorry, and they are just, it's so many talented players. And we thought, you know, we we really felt that they had a lot of Brilliant individuals, I mean, a great individual team. And so we knew it was going to be a challenge, we thought our way of playing was going to be was going to match up well, and we thought it was a good enough game. And you know, they are a good team. And they ended up beating us in the final and but I mean, for us as a program to reach the national final, to have so many all Americans again, to be ranked number two in the country at the end, and to have the defense that we did, and not only that, we actually we, our goalkeeper was awarded the number one division two player in the country. So to have, so to have the snap those awards, you just really look back again. And you get to that finish line and you look back and you see all these decisions that you made as a staff and what and what you made individually and you yourself. Can we ever do this again, like and then you kind of kind of take a break and then you think, yeah, I think we can do this again. I think we can get here. But now you know what it takes. So now you're more motivated to be okay. make these decisions. And then and then you just want the players to go out there and just cut loose and just play. So yeah, it was a great year a very rewarding year for me and also for just the whole program.

Jess Gregory  

Absolutely. Well, congratulations again. That was pretty, pretty awesome year for sure. Now, YouTube's a little bit when you were talking about these guys, and this is a question I love asking all of my coaches is that when you look at that successful season, do you kind of attribute it more to the talent or the mental toughness of your player? So kind of flip it around on them?

Dallas Jaussi  

Oh, man. You know, you we had some real monster players on this team. That have just been so been so just big. And for us to be to be in the final with that group. I will have to say it's got to be both because you're not you know, you're not going to have Have a team, you're not gonna have a team that's just full of talent, you're gonna have some guys that, you know, they're gonna be able to play a certain position really, really well, but they can't play another position really well and you're going to have guys, they're going to be more role players, you're going to have guys that are just absolute studs. And you need to find a way to balance it. So it for me, I think it's mostly it's a balance of both. You've got to have the talent, but you've got to have just mental toughness from everybody. So it's for me, it's both. It can't just be talent. It can't just be if it's just talent, no mental toughness, you're not going to get anywhere. And to me, to me personally, like the mental toughness is the real key to it like being talented. Yes. But like once you get to the final game, and take on that long journey. It takes mental toughness and then to the final game, it's just like, the other team brings their best their best punch, you bring your best punch and then you just get to see who gets to land at the most and that's just what it is. So

Jess Gregory  

yeah That's definitely true. I love hearing everyone's different perspective on that though, because some are always like, well, we don't have the talent. You don't have the mental toughness, but it definitely is a combination of the two. I think they could stop mid season and be like, well, we did it. You know, we were out. Yeah, stop, but you hear that full full season. So?

Dallas Jaussi  

Yeah, exactly. 100% 100% Yeah, exactly. Right.

Jess Gregory  

Awesome. All right. I'm going to switch gears a little bit. Since we are all at home and all of these, you know, high school kids are kind of stuck. They can't get out on the pitch their club seasons are halted. Do you have any tips for them on how they can stay physically active while they're at home?

Dallas Jaussi  

Yeah, obviously, the the thing I'll tell the players the most is and I and I'm dealing with our players the same way. It's important that they stay fit. If you are trying to get recruited. And you know, maybe you're freshmen or something more junior it's and you're not meeting with your team, it's very important that you stay as fit as you possibly can be. You probably never will be as fit as you are when you're in season because the games are such dynamic fitness experiences. So you need to be able to do things that mimic that type of fitness, you're gonna get ball work, you're gonna get all that like you're gonna be able to do all those things, but it's the fitness aspect because what you don't want to have happen is let's say, in the end of the month, you're back with your team, but you didn't do anything fitness wise. Well, now you jump back into full fitness and you get injured, like so it's important for you to to keep your body in a position that when it's time to go again, you can go and not be injured. Because what you don't want your body your your body to do is shut down and then read right back up. And now you can't like you get injured and because you weren't doing anything so you should be working out pretty good three days a week. Like hard like get your heart rate up for 40 to 45 minutes, like go hard. Make sure you're hydrated, make sure you're stretching, like that's very, very important instead of instead of just sorry, I may have lost you there, hold on. Where are you? Sorry, it clicked off there. There we go. Is that better? Okay? And it's important that you do that you're gonna get touches. And the other thing that I would recommend doing, as a player, you're not going to be problem solving at all. Like you're, you can only do so much with the ball and you're like, Look, I got it and my touches good. What you can't work on is like how you make decisions. So I recommend watching games, whether on YouTube or in thing and, and pausing the game and literally asking yourself, what would you do in this situation? What would you do next? And these situations, like you need to exercise that muscle in your head because you're not going to be able to do it. You can't do that one v one. You have to literally find creative ways. To work that muscle, what would I do in this situation? What would I do in a situation A, B, or C something something so that you can, you can exercise that it's not going to be as good as what you would do in training or in a game. But at least you are not forgetting about that. Because you're not you just can't do that in your own stuff. So staying fit, getting touches, and staying fit for me is like number one. Yeah, getting touches you're obviously going to get because you're soccer players and you love being with the ball. That's how you are. And then the other one, the big one is making decisions. Like you've got to find ways to practice making choices. Soccer choice. Yeah. So there's definitely lots of games online now and over so they have no way you can find you can find the most obscure games on YouTube. You're like I want to watch a 2001 serial match between Anna Milan and AC Milan and you can find it. You know, there's no excuse for you not to watch soccer. There may not be any live games, but there's definitely there's been billions of games played since the internet was created. So don't no excuse, please.

Jess Gregory  

Right, exactly. Um, can you add any other mental tips for them outside of? It seems like if you're going to watch games and be on that plane and watching what they're doing and picking your position, are there any other mental tips you have for them?

Dallas Jaussi  

I like that you bring up the mental aspect of it. I think it's important for every player to recognize that, especially if you're trying to be recruited. Everyone is in the same boat as you right now. There's no one doing more than you on the field with their team. Everyone is in the same, same position. So if you're feeling any anxiety, you really need to let that go because no one even professional players are doing the same thing you're doing. So you don't need to think oh man, I'm on some other some other teams are getting seen by coaches. I'm not it's just not happening. So you need to take a couple breaths and realize that everyone on planet earth is going through the same thing. Every soccer player is so and relax about that. So and that, don't put that extra mental pressure on yourself and be like, what do I need to do? And we're still recruiting college coaches are still recruiting like I honestly had in the last two days, two recruiting phone calls. So we're still recruiting. We're still looking at video, we're still building our rosters I know schools that are still preparing for 2020. So you don't need to necessarily worry like, is this going to ruin my chances? It's not it's just you have to be a little bit more dynamic, and creative and how you pivot and get yourself noticed. So if anything, a lot of college coaches are now on their computers, a lot more watching video. So get that video done. Make sure you get these things done in terms of getting your emails done, make use of their appropriate, sending them out, follow up, follow up like we're all just recruiting like nothing really has changed. We just can't go watch. watch you play. You know, we can't go to again, we can't go to games, we can't do official visits or unofficial visits. So, but other than that, we're still, we're still on. We're still trying to find kids for 2020. And we're still trying to and you know, in 2021 we're still trying to find groups. So, yeah, be confident and you know, don't let this little blip you know, which is just gonna be a blip, it'll pass and don't let that discourage you. Just keep going.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah. Was it great tips. Now generically, talking about recruiting, if we can kind of flip over into that? Do you have any good tips for kids on how they can stay connected with you guys? I know you mentioned emails and such, but how they can just keep in contact with coaches and what sort of different ways there are for them to do that. 

Dallas Jaussi  

I mean, there are so many, there are so many ways to communicate nowadays. I, you know, I've gotten recruiting emails to my LinkedIn page. I've got people send me direct messages on Instagram. You know, there. It's every There's so many ways to get in touch. I, I don't think the Instagram thing is very professional. I think that I think that's a little. I don't, I don't say like, if I found a stud, that contact, you know, contact them on Instagram, like, who cares how they contact you, they contacted you, right? They're just and they're just reaching out to you the best way that they can, I still think the best thing to do is email video. It's just so clean. It's just so simple to get that email and say and you know, in the subject, subject line, it says know, their name, their grad year, GPA, position where they're from, and then they have a nice paragraph and then a video at the end with some numbers that I can call to get some references. It's just it's such a clean way of doing things and then I can pass that video on to the head coach, I can pass the other assistant coaches. So it's it's a real clean, simple way of doing it and and like I said, we watched those videos. We're watching video all the time now. And we were watching video even before and so now we have so much more time that we're just, we are crushing through video. So yeah, get the video done. If you have video, send it over and you know, and the email is probably the best thing. And going forward, you know, sometimes we give, you know, make sure your phone numbers on there maybe if you're of age, if it's after June 15 of your junior year, we can contact you will contact you. So and then we'll have conversations over the phone. So I would say the best thing to do is email and video. It's just so clean. and to the point. it's crystal clear. So that's what I recommend. Yeah.

Jess Gregory  

All right. Nice. Okay, last question for you before I let you go get back to all those emails. Thank you. Yeah. Um, do you have any do's and don'ts for them? As far as emails go? I know when I was coaching, I would get emails for the wrong school. They would call me Mr. Gregory. When when reaching out to me So do you have any just fun kind of do's and don'ts that you can leave our players with?

Dallas Jaussi  

Yeah, I think I think a big a good, I'll start with a Don't. Don't forget to put your grad year, it's very important that the grad year goes on there. Because in terms of how we recruit, we need to know how to prioritize you. So if we like if you send us a video, and don't put your grad year on there, and we like your video, we don't know how to prioritize you. And so we don't know, like, should we contact them should not contact them. So it's kind of like this really this this indecision thing, but you can really help us the psats really help us by putting that information on there. So if you're a 2021, let's say let's say you're 2022 You send us a video and we're like, wow, this is a great video. This guy looks like he's got a lot of potential. And he's a 2022. Well, now we know where to place you in our priorities. And we know how to kind of attack you a little bit because we're like, okay, we don't need to really go all out. We Now know this player is interested in us we could maybe get we know that they can come to our ID camp, we can send them one of those emails. Don't if you don't put your gravity or we just kind of don't know how to approach you. So help us out that way by by putting that information it really helps us kind of know how to approach you and where you are in the recruiting process. Yeah, uh, do for me is you have to email more than once do email more than once. It's, we live in a society that really wants instantaneous gratification. Mm hmm. You put it you put an Instagram post up and you want things to be liked. You know you want to see that those things are happening with recruiting it's just not that way. We're going e players need to understand their they've joined the global marketplace like they've joined a global their kids from all over the earth that wants to come play college soccer, like they that's just kind of how it is. Europe, South America. Africa, all the Pacific, Asia, Pacific Asia area, like they want to come here. And so domestic kids, you know, kids in the United States, North America need to understand that and recognize like, I can't just send one email. And that's it. That's all I have to do. And it's a bit discouraging to me when I've actually spoken to kids who said, well, I've sent an email I haven't heard anything back. It's like, well, how did you send it like just one I'm like, you know, the emails I get, like, write it you you have to continue with the process like it's not a lot of times I think kids they say that it's a you know, what, what is this college coach going to do? For me? It's not really what it is. It's, it's what the recruit is going to do for us. So you have to continue to knock on the door of it. You have to continue to knock and don't be discouraged when in no one responds for a little bit. That's not doesn't mean they don't like you. That's just that's not what it means. So just be Proactiv that way and don't email just one time and then say, well, they didn't respond back. So I guess they don't like me. No, it's not how it works. So continue to email, I would say, send an email every two weeks, every three weeks. And, and and put that video on there, let them know what you're up to and let them know you're going to come to a game or something like that. And, you know, something, you know, within my club that I know that is being really told is like, really express to them the challenges of COVID-19 and how it and how it's changed the recruiting landscape. And, you know, and you have to sympathize with the college coaches, we can't come see you play sound like we wouldn't want to, we just can't. So, you know that, like I said, we're all in the same boat and, but those would be my definite do's and don'ts. Do not, don't include if you don't include your 2020 year grad year, it's going to be hard for us and continue to email.

Jess Gregory  

Absolutely. Yeah, those are awesome tips. I mean, we always tell our kids do you got to make sure that you're staying home Locked in? And really, are you here? No. Just keep up. You know,

Dallas Jaussi  

I have so many stories of I have so many stories of kids who had graduated. they graduated high school. They were in the summer. And then it wasn't until July but they were offered a roster spot because they just kept kept going. kept going. And so like it just because it's your app, even after you graduated, that's worse. Cops are still recruiting.

Jess Gregory  

Right? Well never give up is basically and never give up. I honestly don't know. There we go. Just keep going. It's awesome. All right. Well, thank you so much, Dallas, I really appreciate you sitting down and chatting with us providing their kids because they're gonna get some great tips from you. So appreciate it.

Dallas Jaussi  

Okay, well, I appreciate it. And hope to see you guys out on the field soon enough.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah, fingers crossed.

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