…I reflect on many things in both my personal and professional life. The Newtown tragedy has humbled every person on this planet who has a caring, sensitive, humanistic bone in his/her body. And the incident should make all of us step back, appreciate whatever we have, and not take one breath for granted. 

With that said, I have always been extremely grateful for my wife Valerie (20 years of marriage) and sons Scotty (19) and Matt (17), our close family friends, and the good health that we (“knock-on-wood”) all have.

Through this SportsBoard venture I started 17 months ago, my “family” has grown substantially. My gratitude also extends to the investors who believe in my vision, my employees who got behind my vision, and our early adopting customers who embraced our vision. I thank all of you for your belief in me, your support of this quest, the fun we’ve had thus far, and the significant fun we’re about to have. 

Our mission is simple: make SportsBoard better and better every day, and provide the best customer service coaches will get from any vendor, period. 

On January 1 of this year, we only had addressed just two sports (soccer and lacrosse) and we were able to attract seven very early-adopting customers. Thank you, first-seven below, for your faith in the concept of SportsBoard and our ability to execute, and embracing the product before it was even on the iTunes Store:

• Collegiate Women’s Lacrosse: Stanford, Loyola (MD), Princeton, Penn, Fresno State
• Collegiate Men’s Lacrosse: Penn
• Collegiate Women’s Soccer: Florida Atlantic 

Now, we have 10 products that support 17 different collegiate sports programs and more than 100 college customers ranging from the biggest, globally-renowned programs—like Duke men’s basketball—to small junior colleges—like Columbia Basin. 

Why are we so excited?  Here are just a two of the reasons we can share now:

• Today, we signed on our first department-wide customer, University of Maryland, which we hope paves the way for many department-wide commitments we sign from schools far and wide
• Through our relationship with Duke Men’s Basketball, we designed some of the coolest and most time-consuming and mission-critical features possible: a new interface to SportsTec’s Sportscode and Gamebreaker video analysis products.  This interface eliminates the hours coaches spend manually tagging film, and accelerate their ability to review that video so they can adjust strategy and improve chances of winning more quickly than ever before! 

Our mission is simple: make SportsBoard better and better every day, and provide the best customer service coaches will get from any vendor, period. 

For those of you who are already customers, thank you for your support. For those of you who are not yet customers, we look forward to serving you.

Whether coaches use SportsBoard for recruiting, season or camps, we make an impact on their processes, saving time, generating revenues, or both. We are changing the rules of the game, shifting the paradigm, creating an advantage for those who adopt.  

The time is now. Don’t be left behind. Join the revolution today!

On behalf of our entire team at SportsBoard, we wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday season and a very prosperous 2013!

— Gregg Jacobs, Founder / CEO

When I first thought of SportsBoard seven years ago, the concept was to design an app that could enable coaches to replace the traditional clipboard with a digital version.  

Why wouldn’t coaches want to get rid of the paper and streamline their workflow if they could work more efficiently and have the ability to make better, more informed, data-driven decisions?

But seven years ago, there was no iPad. So, 17 months ago, we started this crusade and, oh, what a ride it’s been.  Over the last eight months, more than 100 colleges, ranging from D3 to the largest D1, have adopted SportsBoard. And, in this eight months, oh, how the product has grown.  We started by addressing on-field, on-court player assessment specifically for college coaches to use when watching athletes at recruiting events.  Now SportsBoard is so much more…

“Over the last eight months, more than 100 colleges, ranging from D3 to the largest D1, have adopted SportsBoard”

For college coaches specifically, it’s the only system that addresses recruiting and assessment in one database.  This means that coaches have the ability to use SportsBoard throughout the entire recruiting process: from the initial web site questionnaire through email and phone call exchanges, highlight reel reviews, tournament assessments, campus visits and the offer/commitment process.

For coaches at all levels SportsBoard can be used during the season and is:

• The only iPad App (thanks to Duke Men’s Basketball) that generates player efficiency reports and captures in-game stats to feed SportsTec’s SportsCode and GameBreaker products within minutes of the end of a game or practice.
• The only iPad App that streamlines the distribution of team and individual scouting reports to coaches and players.
• The only iPad App capable of evaluating players with ratings, text notes, photos, or video.

Stanford Baseball pioneered SportsBoard’s use for camps this summer, using Baseball Scout to streamline collection and distribution of evaluation reports and video evaluations.  SportsBoard enables camp directors to generate reports and video evals for campers, parents, and coaches to watch a player’s shot, or swing, or face-off, or goal-keeping tendencies.

“We are changing the rules of the game, shifting the paradigm, creating an advantage for those who adopt.”

And that’s what we’ve done in eight months.  Imagine what we will have done in the next eight months.  We will never stop making SportsBoard better and better and better.  

SportsBoard is revolutionizing how coaches collect and use data to gain a competitive advantage, and execute tasks more efficiently. We are changing the rules of the game, shifting the paradigm, creating an advantage for those who adopt.  

The time is now…don’t be left behind. Join the revolution today!

— Gregg Jacobs, Founder / CEO