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 for personal computers - initially designed to run on the Apple II plaform.
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For 25 years our primary focus was on the publication, maintenance and support of Easy-Scout and similar "traditional" software applications for football 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 in 1999 to facilitate the sharing of forms among football coaches - long before "cloud storage" sites like DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud existed. Our game scripting, game planning and Formation Hit Chart forms continue to be used by Football coaches today.
In 2009, we acquired the Option football coaching web site - www.optioncentral.net from its founder, and added videos and podcasts to its existing collection of option football articles. A number of these podcasts were produced by CompuSports Radio, along with over 100 football coaching podcasts that remain available to this day.
A YouTube Channel was launched in 2013, includes a sampling of the material available at Option Central, including a number of full-length Play of the Day Chalk Talk videos that were produced in collaboration with Coach Tony DeMeo. Working with Coach DeMeo, a widely renowned authority and innovator in the world of Option football, a total of 9 Virtual Playbook DVDs (now available in streaming format) , 10 CoachTube "courses" and numerous Podcasts and audio-enabled versions of Coach DeMeo's Play of the Day in YouTube Shorts have been produced.
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. We also assisted Coach DeMeo in completing his latest book, Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football, released in 2024 - most recently in a Paperback version, that is available at Amazon.com. The first book from Coach DeMeo in over 15 years, Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football is considered by Coach DeMeo to be "the best thing he's ever done".
While our software development activities are on hiatus indefinitely, we remain engaged in maintaining and improving the collection of tools and resources that we provide for the football coaching community.