Compusports

What Compusports does

Compusports (legal name CompuSports, originally Comp-U-Sports Inc.) was a privately held US software company founded in 1984 that developed and published desktop applications for the football coaching community, headquartered in Thurmont, Maryland and originating at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Its core product family — Easy-Scout Plus, Easy-Scout Professional, Easy-D-Scout, Self-Scout, Easy-Recruiter, and Athletic Equipment Manager — was built as traditional installed Windows desktop software (with origins on Apple II in 1984), requiring no internet connection or subscription, and was sold as one-time perpetual licenses through the compusports.com website with PayPal checkout and email/telephone support. The software enabled coaches to collect, categorize, and report on football plays using custom terminology and intelligent defaults, with Easy-Scout Professional adding video editing, video analysis, and cutup creation, and Athletic Equipment Manager handling real-time inventory and item tagging for athletic departments. All four Windows applications reached End-of-Life on December 31, 2025, and the third-party software distribution business (Chalk Talk, Playmaster, Playmaker Pro, Coach's Office) concluded November 30, 2025, formally retiring the software publishing and distribution business.

The company's primary customers were high school football programs, college and university football programs, athletic equipment managers, and college athletic recruiters across the United States, with testimonial relationships spanning 15+ years at institutions including Georgetown Prep, University of Hawaii, and Southeastern Louisiana University. Pricing was one-time perpetual license with optional subscription alternatives for some products, and school-volume licenses were offered at reduced cost. There are no disclosed revenue figures, no funding rounds, and no institutional investors in the available source material; ownership appears to remain with the original founders.

Following the 2025 software wind-down, Compusports states it remains active in other segments of the football coaching information industry. Ongoing operations center on a network of wholly-owned affiliated websites — footballcoachingsites.com (directory of football coaching sites, camps, clinics, podcasts, and forums), optioncentral.net (option football information, acquired in 2009 from its founder Tony DeMeo), compusportsmedia.com (educational articles and videos), and compusportsradio.com (the CompuSports Radio Network with 100+ football coaching podcasts) — together with a free Football Coaching Forms Library maintained for over 20 years. Revenue-generating content extensions include a long-running collaboration with Coach Tony DeMeo producing 9 Virtual Playbook DVDs, 10 CoachTube courses, and books such as 'Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football' (2024) and 'Little Things that Win Big Games' (2025) sold on Amazon. The company has stated it may explore releasing discontinued products as freeware.

Name

Compusports

Legal name

CompuSports

Website

https://compusports.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Compusports was a privately held US developer of desktop football coaching software (Easy-Scout, Easy-Recruiter, Athletic Equipment Manager) serving high school and college programs, founded in 1984. Following the December 2025 retirement of its software line, it continues operating content, podcast, book, and directory websites for the football coaching community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Coaching Software

NAICS

Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162), Software Publishers (5132), Broadcasting and Content Providers (516)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Performance Analysis & Video Coaching (HSADAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Athletic Recruitment & NCAA/NAIA Eligibility Counseling (EDANAEAM), Creator Course Marketplaces (Multi-Instructor Catalogs) (MPACALAA), Team Sports Training Aids & Coaching Equipment Retail (CRAMAEAL)

Keywords

• Football scouting software
• Athletic recruiting software
• Video editing software
• Equipment management software
• Coaching forms library

Headquarters

HQ city

Thurmont

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software License Sales (Discontinued): CompuSports generated revenue through one-time purchase software licenses for Easy-Scout Plus, Easy-Scout Professional, Athletic Equipment Manager, and Easy-Recruiter. Some products were offered with subscription alternatives. All products were discontinued effective December 31, 2025.
2. Software Distribution (Discontinued): CompuSports distributed software on behalf of other publishers including Chalk Talk, Playmaster, Playmaker Pro, and Coach's Office playbook applications. This distribution business was gradually wound down, with the last product (Playmaker Pro) distribution ending November 30, 2025.
3. Content Publishing and Books: CompuSports publishes educational content including coaching podcasts, videos, and books. Collaborated with Coach Tony DeMeo to produce Virtual Playbook DVDs, CoachTube courses, and books including 'Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football'. Revenue generated through book sales on Amazon and content licensing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Compusports developed and sold Windows desktop software for American football coaching, including scouting, game film editing, athlete recruiting, and athletic equipment management. Its Easy-Scout product line enabled coaches to digitize scouting reports and analyze opponent game film, while Easy-Recruiter supported college recruiters with prospect databases. Following the December 31, 2025 sunset of all paid software, the company now provides free football coaching educational content and archived resources.

Product overview

CompuSports was a software company offering a family of desktop coaching applications for football. The core product line centered on Easy-Scout (Plus and Professional variants) for football scouting and game analysis, supplemented by Athletic Equipment Manager for inventory management and Easy-Recruiter for athletic recruiting. Easy-Scout Plus provided data-only scouting and tendency reporting, while Easy-Scout Professional added video editing and analysis capabilities. Additional tools included Easy-D-Scout for defensive analysis and Self-Scout for combined offensive/defensive reporting. All software products were discontinued effective December 31, 2025. The company continues to offer free coaching form templates and educational resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Easy-Scout: One of the first football scouting software applications for personal computers, helping coaches build better game plans by revealing offensive and defensive tendencies. Reached End of Life in December 2025.
• Easy-Scout Plus
• Easy-Scout Professional
• Easy-D-Scout
• Self-Scout
• Easy-Stats
• Easy-Recruiter
• Athletic Equipment Manager (AEM)

Products and services

• Easy-Scout Plus Windows desktop scouting software for football coaches to analyze opponent tendencies, build scout cards, and prepare game plans. Targeted at high school and college football programs. Discontinued December 31, 2025.
• Easy-Scout Professional Premium Windows desktop football scouting software offering comprehensive opponent analysis, custom terminology, and intelligent defaults for high school and college coaching staffs. Discontinued December 31, 2025.
• Athletic Equipment Manager (AEM) Windows desktop application for athletic equipment managers to track athletic gear issued, returned, repaired, or replaced, with a real-time log and transaction history. Targeted at high school and college athletic departments. Discontinued December 31, 2025.
• Easy-Recruiter Windows desktop recruiting software that allows college football recruiters to build and search prospect databases for evaluating high school football athletes. Targeted at college football recruiting coordinators. Discontinued December 31, 2025.
• Easy-D-Scout Early football scouting software product offered by Compusports in its initial product line for opponent scouting.
• Self-Scout Scouting software variant that allows football teams to analyze their own offensive and defensive tendencies, complementing the Easy-Scout opponent scouting workflow.
• Football Coaching Forms Library Free online library of downloadable football coaching forms and templates covering practice planning, scouting, and program administration for football coaches at all levels.
• Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense (book) Football coaching book detailing the Triple Gun Offense system, published by Compusports in collaboration with coach Tony DeMeo and sold via Amazon.
• Little Things that Win Big Games (book) Football coaching book by Tony DeMeo covering the small-margin details that determine game outcomes, published by Compusports and sold via Amazon.

Quantifiable outcome

• Easy-Scout enabled coaches to quickly identify opponent offensive and defensive tendencies from game data, revealing patterns that provided competitive advantages
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Coach Tony DeMeocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2009CompuSports acquired the Option Central website from Coach Tony DeMeo in 2009 and subsequently collaborated on extensive content production including 9 Virtual Playbook DVDs (now streaming), 10 CoachTube courses, numerous podcasts, and book publications. Coach DeMeo is described as a widely renowned authority and innovator in option football. The collaboration produced 'Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football' (2024), 'The Grass Isn't Greener; Its Only Astro-turf' (Kindle version 2024), and 'Little Things that Win Big Games' (2025).
• BW SoftwareminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBW Software is the publisher of Playmaker Pro, which CompuSports distributed on behalf of other publishers. CompuSports officially stopped distributing Playmaker Pro on November 30, 2025, and continues to refer inquiries about purchasing Playmaker Pro to BW Software directly.
• Susquehanna UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEasy-Scout originated from a mainframe program created by a member of Susquehanna University's football coaching staff in 1983. The software traces its origins to the university's computer lab during their history-making 1983 football season. The first commercially available version was published in 1984.
• CoachTubeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCoachTube is an online education platform where 10 courses created in collaboration with Coach Tony DeMeo and CompuSports are available for football coaching education.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• FieldLevel: FieldLevel connects high school athletes with college coaches through video highlights and recruiting tools, partially overlapping with both Easy-Recruiter and Easy-Scout's scouting/intelligence use cases.
• FinalForms: FinalForms provides athletic department paperwork, forms, and compliance management for high schools, partially overlapping with CompuSports' Free Football Coaching Forms Library and Athletic Equipment Manager inventory tracking.

Direct peers

• Krossover: Krossover (now part of Hudl) offered AI-assisted video breakdown and coaching analytics for football and basketball programs, directly competing with CompuSports' scouting and video analysis capabilities before being acquired.
• CaptainU: CaptainU provides college athletic recruiting tools and profile management for high school student-athletes, overlapping directly with Easy-Recruiter's recruiting workflow and prospect tracking.
• SportsRecruits: SportsRecruits is a recruiting management platform for high school athletes and college coaches, directly comparable to CompuSports' Easy-Recruiter product in functionality and target user.
• Hudl: Hudl is the dominant cloud-based video analysis and coaching platform for football (and other sports), directly overlapping CompuSports' Easy-Scout Professional functionality for video breakdown, tendency analysis, and game preparation. It has become the de facto replacement for legacy desktop scouting tools.
• Front Rush: Front Rush is a college athletics recruiting and team management platform used by NCAA programs, addressing the same recruiting process management needs as Easy-Recruiter for college-level customers.

Regional players

• CoachTube: CoachTube is the online learning marketplace where CompuSports distributes its DeMeo courses. While not a direct software competitor, it is the platform partner that hosts CompuSports' monetizable coaching education content.

Broad incumbents

• Catapult Sports: Catapult provides athlete performance monitoring, video analysis, and team management tools to professional and elite sports organizations. It addresses the same performance analysis & video coaching need as Easy-Scout Professional, but at a much larger scale and broader sport coverage.
• Synergy Sports: Synergy Sports provides professional-grade video analysis and coaching tools used across basketball and other sports, comparable in spirit to Easy-Scout Professional's video scouting and tendency analysis capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@optioncentral

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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