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ABOUT COMPUSPORTS

CompuSports was founded in 1984 to publish and distribute football coaching software. Our Easy-Scout software was one of the first football scouting software applications designed to run on personal computers.  With its origins in the computer lab at Susquehanna University, Easy-Scout evolved over four decades and remains available for computers running Microsoft Windows.

 

Easy-Scout products provide football coaches with tools for collecting, managing, and analyzing game data using a traditional software application that does not require an annual subscription or internet connection.   Easy-Scout introduced a number of innovations and ease-of-use features to football scouting software.  From the very first version of Easy-Scout (for Apple II computers), Easy-Scout enabled a coach to use his own words and terminology to categorize formations and plays.  Prior to Easy-Scout, football scouting "programs"  required either structured naming procedures or cryptic "coding" procedures.   Easy-Scout also introduced "intelligent default values" to software of its kind  - pre-filling the Down, Distance and Field Position based on the result of the previous play.  Later versions combined data and video analysis tools with Easy-Scout's extensive collection of reports.

 

For 25 years our primary focus was on the publication, maintenance and support of Easy-Scout and similar "traditional" software applications for scouting, football statistics, video analysis, athletic recruiting and athletic equipment inventory management. We also distributed many of the industry's leading "traditional" playbook software applications, including Chalk Talk, Playmaster, Playmaker Pro and Coach's Office on behalf of their publishers. A number of these applications, including Easy-Scout and Playmaker Pro, remain available today.

 

As the internet arrived as a viable platform for publishing and eCommerce in the late '90's, we created a number of coaching-themed web sites , including  The CompuSports Media Exchange and  www.footballcoachingsites.com .   A football coaching forms "exchange"  was added to this site in 1999 to facilitate the sharing of forms among football coaches ...long before "cloud storage" sites like DropBox, Google Drive and OneDrive existed.  Our game scripting, game planning and Formation Hit Chart forms continue to be used today.

 

 In 2009 we acquired the Option football coaching web site - www.optioncentral.net from its founder and added videos and later podcasts to the site's existing collection of option football articles.  As with many things we've done over the years, we "got in the game early" with podcasting and have produced or sponsored hundreds of football coaching podcasts that remain available to this day.

 

The Option Central YouTube Channel  was launched in 2013, and includes a sampling of the material available at Option Central, including a number of full-length Play of the Day Chalk Talk videos that we produced in collaboration with Coach Tony DeMeo.  Working with Coach DeMeo, a widely renowned authority and innovator in the world of Option football, we produced a series of 9 Virtual Playbook DVDs (now available in streaming format) 10 CoachTube "courses" , numerous Podcasts, and, most recently audio-enabled versions of Coach DeMeo's Play of the Day in YouTube Shorts format.

 

In the Summer of 2023, we re-imagined and redesigned our www.footballcoachingsites.com web site, adding live "feeds" from web sites, podcasts, YouTube Channels and forums.  While our software development activities are on hiatus indefinitely, we remain focused on maintaining, improving and expanding the collection of tools and resources that we provide for the football coaching community.