Coach's Guide

1. Getting started

Get in

1. Go to blitzscouting.com
2. Tap Coach Login
3. Enter the team passcode you were given

You only enter it once per device. It's remembered after that.

Put it on your phone (do this)

Blitz works like a real app on your phone, which is how you'll use it at tournaments.

• iPhone: open blitzscouting.com in Safari → Share button → Add to Home Screen
• Android: open in Chrome → menu (⋮) → Add to Home screen

Set your name

Tap the 👤 button in the header and enter your name. Every contact you log gets stamped with it, so the staff can see who last talked to a kid. Do this before your first contact log.

2. Your two boards

Tabs at the top switch between them:

• 🗂 Recruiting Board — your real board. Kids you're actively recruiting.
• 🎯 Tryouts — kids who signed up at a camp through the QR code. Same full profiles, kept separate so walk-ups don't clutter your board.

Like a kid on Tryouts? Hit ➜ Recruit on his card and he moves to the recruiting board with everything he's collected. You can move a player back the same way from his profile.

Views

• Cards — the default. Everything at a glance.
• Pipeline — columns by status. Shows your funnel: who's untouched, who's interested, who's committed.
• Depth — grouped by position, sorted by class. Answers "how are we set at DB for 2028?" Two-position kids appear under both.

Filters & sorting

Search by name or school, filter by position (matches either position), status, has offers, or archived. Sort by A–Z, Needs attention, Recently added, or Our eval.

3. Adding players

Three ways, best first:

🔍 Find Recruits (best)

Search Rivals and MaxPreps and add kids with one tap — full profile comes with them. See section 4.

📋 Tryout signups

Kids enter their own info at camp via QR code. See section 7.

+ Add Player (manual)

Paste a MaxPreps link and Blitz fills in name, position, height, weight, class, school, photo, and stats automatically. Or just type a name — but if you do, add his school and state, because that's what lets Blitz find him later.

4. Finding new recruits

Hit 🔍 Find Recruits. Three tabs.

Rankings

Every rated player in Rivals' database. Pick class year, position, and state — get results best-rated first with stars, national and state rank, height/weight, school, and how many offers they hold. ＋ Add puts a kid on your board with his full profile. Kids already on your board show ✓ On board instead.

Stat Leaders

The top 100 statistical producers in a state. Pick state, stat category (passing/rushing/receiving yards, points, total TDs, tackles, sacks, INTs), season (this or last), and class year. Great for finding kids who put up numbers but aren't ranked.

💎 Sleepers — the one nobody else has

Blitz cross-references production (MaxPreps stat leaders) against recruiting attention (Rivals stars, ranks, offers) and ranks the gap. High production + little attention = a kid you can actually get before the services find him.

• 90–100 — top of the leaderboard, essentially unknown. Start here.
• 70–89 — strong production, minimal attention.
• Under 70 — producing, but colleges are already circling.

Tap ⓘ How this works in that tab for the full scoring formula and — just as important — what the score can't see (kids with no recorded stats, volume bias, transfers).

5. The player profile

Click any card to open it. Top to bottom:

Photo

Click the photo (it has a 📷 badge) to upload one, take one with your camera — great at tournaments — or remove it. A photo you set is never overwritten by a sync.

Quick links

Buttons for Hudl, MaxPreps, Rivals, X, Instagram, and — if you've saved numbers — 📞 Call, 💬 Text, and 📞 Parent. Tap-to-dial works on your phone.

Profile fields

Status, nickname, position and second position, class, height, weight, school, city, state, next action, phone, parent contact, socials, and the three source links.

Offers

Add offers by hand, and Blitz adds any it finds from Rivals and 247 automatically (those show in a different color). The header shows what each service reports.

Our Evaluation

Your grades, not a service's: tap 1–5 stars for Speed, Hands, Routes, Coverage, and Football IQ, plus a Seen at field for the camp or tournament. The average shows on his card, and you can sort the whole board by Our eval.

Contact Log

Every text, call, DM, email, or in-person conversation with a date and note. Logging a contact automatically moves a kid off "Not contacted," and each entry is stamped with your name.

Notes

Notes are a thread, not a box. Type what you've got, hit Add note, and it posts with your name and the date attached. Every coach on the staff sees every note and who wrote it.

Notes are append-only — a note posts the second you add it, and Save changes never touches them. Two coaches can have the same kid open and write at the same time without wiping each other out. The ✕ on a note deletes it for everybody, so use it only for genuine mistakes.

Notes written before the beta show as Unattributed — they came from the old single notes box, which didn't record who typed them. Nothing was lost.

Stats & Game Log

Season-by-season stat tables from MaxPreps plus a game log for the latest season — every game with result, opponent, and a highlight line. ⟳ Sync refreshes on demand. For a kid with no source links yet, the button reads ⟳ Find on MaxPreps + Rivals and searches by name and school.

Roster (committed players only)

Squad (14U–18U), waiver / physical / fees checkboxes, and the button to generate his player portal code.

Bottom bar

Save changes is always visible at the bottom, and the ⋯ button next to it holds the rarer actions: move between boards, Archive (hides a graduated or dead-end kid without losing his history), and Delete (permanent).

On your phone

The player's name and the ✕ stay pinned at the top and Save stays pinned at the bottom, so you never scroll to close or save. Tap any section heading (Profile, Offers, Notes…) to fold it away — Blitz remembers what you folded. Stats start folded on a phone since they're the longest part; tap to open them.

6. Staying on top of kids

This is where boards usually fail. Blitz flags kids ⚑ automatically when:

• They've never been contacted
• 14+ days pass with no logged contact
• A next action you set has come due

Committed, passed, and archived players never flag.

• Sort by Needs attention to work the list top-down.
• ＋ Log on any card jumps straight to the contact log — five seconds from the sideline.
• Set a next action ("Call dad about the June camp") with a date and it shows on his card.

7. Tryouts & the QR code

1. Open 📋 Tryout Signups.
2. Name the page (e.g. "Divine Tree 7on7 Tryout") and hit Save title.
3. Print QR for a flyer, or show the code on a screen. Copy link to text it out.
4. Kids scan it and fill in their own info on their phones.
5. Signups appear in Waiting for review with a count badge on the button.
6. Hit ✓ Add and the kid lands on the 🎯 Tryouts board — Blitz then auto-builds his full profile from MaxPreps and Rivals.

Link active turns signups off between events. New link rotates the code — the old QR stops working, so reprint anything using it. Close the link when a camp ends: it's the only public door into your app.

8. Season stats

Open 🏆 Season.

1. Name the season (e.g. "Summer 2026") and save.
2. + Add game with a date and opponent.
3. Hit Enter stats on a game to get the sideline view.

Your roster runs down the left with tap counters across: completions, attempts, pass TDs, INTs thrown, catches, receiving TDs, INTs, PBUs, and defensive TDs. Every tap saves immediately — there's no submit button to forget between series. The − button fixes mistakes.

Season totals build a team leaderboard automatically, and players see their own stats in the portal.

9. The player portal

Kids get their own login that shows only their stuff — never your board, your notes, your evaluations, or anyone's contact info.

1. Set the player's status to Committed (the Roster section only appears for committed kids).
2. In Roster, hit 🎟 Player portal code — you get a 6-digit code.
3. Text it to him. He goes to blitzscouting.com/portal and enters it once.

He sees his profile basics, his game-by-game and season stats, his Hudl link, and the team leaderboard.

Generating a new code replaces the old one — that's how you revoke access.

10. The Film Room

Open 🎬 Film Room. You control the film; everyone watching follows your screen exactly. Players get no controls, so nobody skips ahead to the play you're about to make a point about.

Building a session

1. Name it ("Week 3 cut-ups").
2. 📱 Upload clips from this device — on your phone this opens your camera roll, so plays people text you go straight in. Select as many as you want.
3. Or paste a YouTube link (unlisted works) or a direct video link, then Add link.
4. Start session. You get a 4-digit join code.

Running it

Players go to blitzscouting.com/film and enter the code. The header shows how many are watching.

• ⏮ ⏭ move through clips — every screen switches with you.
• Play/pause, « 10s / 10s », and speed (0.25×–2×) all sync.
• Click any clip in the list to jump to it.
• ＋ Add drops in more clips mid-session.

Notes

Type what you see, optionally tag a player from your board, and hit Mark. It saves at that exact moment on that clip. Click a note later to jump the whole room back to it. Players see notes appear live.

11. Alerts & the Friday brief

Recent updates

When a tracked kid picks up an offer, changes star rating, or plays a game, it appears at the top of your board. Click an update to open that player. Clear dismisses them.

🔔 Push notifications

Tap the 🔔 in the header on any device and allow notifications — that device gets alerts on the lock screen. Several updates arrive as one notification, not a buzz-storm. Tap again to turn off. Works best on the home-screen app.

✉ The Friday brief

Every Friday at 7am Central, Blitz emails the staff: what moved this week, your call list (most overdue first, with tap-to-call numbers), the newest sleepers, and where the board stands. Add recipients in the ✉ panel and hit 👁 Preview to see the real thing any time.

12. Staff & settings

🔑 Staff access (head coach only)

Generate a personal 6-digit passcode for each coach. Their contacts get stamped with their name automatically. ✕ Revoke cuts one coach off without changing anyone else's code — which is why personal codes beat one shared password. New codes take about a minute to activate.

🎨 Team colors

Presets or your exact team colors. Saving applies for the whole staff, and the Friday email matches too.

⟳ Sync All

Refreshes every player from MaxPreps and Rivals right now. Blitz also does this automatically every night at 3am Central, so you'll normally wake up current.

13. Your data & backups

• Nightly snapshots of the whole board, kept 30 days.
• ⬇ Export gives you a CSV (opens in Excel/Sheets — good for sharing with staff) or a full JSON backup.
• Take a JSON export before anything big — a tryout, a season rollover, a mass cleanup.

14. Limits & troubleshooting

Honest limits

• Hudl film can't be synced in the Film Room (see section 10).
• Film storage is limited — roughly 25–40 phone clips at a time. The Film Room shows free space. Delete an old session to reclaim it.
• Rivals only covers rated players. Most tryout kids aren't in it — that's normal, and MaxPreps still finds them.
• Stats come from high school coaches. If a school doesn't report to MaxPreps, there's nothing to pull. Blitz can't be more current than its sources.
• Use blitzscouting.com — www.blitzscouting.com does not work.

Common problems

15. Hand-outs for players

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