Overall, this was a GREAT UPGRADE over the old platform that our youth football organization used. It is clean looking and very up-to-date with what users need and want right now. It is interactive for the users and provides some great functions for our organization.

This software was used after having a very outdated website. I chose this program through Dicks Sporting Goods because of the good reviews I heard about it. After getting into the product, I found that it was not very difficult to use. It included some very nice platforms to choose from and implement for our youth football program. It is very user friendly and the mobile version is also easy to use.

The software is a little restrictive in what you can use on it. By this, I mean that the only templates you can use are the ones that are loaded into the program. You cannot change the template to something other than what are in the program using HTML Codes. Most people would not even need these though because there are quite a few to choose from.

Overall we are pleased with Sports Connect. I can get information posted and share information as needed.

It allows us a website location to post all information pertaining to our program and is easily accessible.

The site is very cumbersome to a novice user. More freeform templates would help improve the ability to create space to post our sponsors and pictures from the season.

painful experience

Its free. You can manage your registration and payment through the site, but so does everyone else. Nothing else stands out about this software vs anything else.

You cannot login from the www.bluesombrero.com home page...why not? Once you find a login screen (literally have to google it or search your email), there is not one login screen for all users - you literally have to find the EXACT URL for each team or organization you want to login to...seriously? Not only that, but you can't login and see all of the different teams your kids play on. Each team is a completely different URL to login! This is so inconvenient and bad design, its crazy. You cannot use the same username across the different logins/teams. So now I have to have 3 different usernames for 3 different teams...all using the same application (blue sombrero?). Isn't this is what SaaS applications were supposed to solve? The mobile app does NOT integrate to your iPhone calendar...very inconvenient! And feels like they are always trying to sell you on "the next program". These sites are meant for parents to help manage their kids sports - stop selling me anything! I will pay you not to sell me anything. My complaints here are very reasonable because almost all other sports applications have these features. Sites like TeamSnap are built to make your life easy. Blue Sombrero makes your life much harder. Every parent dreads if they get a team invite from blue sombrero. I do not recommend it.

overall the system has a lot to offer, we been with Sports Connect/Blue Sombrero since 2015

organization of the information is helpfull.

procressing fees are expensive, and hard to verify.

Its not only easy to use but easiky self-taught

Registration setup... when you copy from a previous year/program...it pulls everything (inlcuding old condirmation notes)

From beginning to now, Sports Connect has continued to grow with us. Helps each step of the way through our registration process and beyond. In particular, [sensitive content hidden] has treated our company like it matters and that she is personally invested in our success.

They take our ideas, our needs and our problems and address each one. They give us a product that functions smoothly and give us the support that creates a seamless flow between our company and Sports Connect.

Honestly, I have nothing to put here. Absolutely nothing.

SportsConnect streamlines sports league management with user-friendly registration, scheduling, and communication tools. It simplifies administrative tasks for organizers and improves access to information for players and parents. Despite a learning curve and occasional glitches, its features like team management and financial tracking make it an invaluable asset for sports organizations. SportsConnect is an essential platform for enhancing the efficiency and experience of our AYSO league operations.

Site crashes and lags from time to time.

Happy with the program and the service over the years.

Ease of use for the administrator and users. Customer service is the best.

Other admins don't like the communication feature.

It has been a great product. I rely on it

The ease of use and total integration of the various modes.

The scheduler could use some more flexibity.

Overall we are satisfied with Blue Sombrero.

Hard to beat the price - free makes up for a lot. This software has some very nice features and does make it easy to manage your team or your club. Overall, it's a good software that could be great.

There are definitely some limitations. How you communicate to your team through their software is not good, the website and email editors are very challenging. However, it's tough to beat the price.

Overall it has been good

Registration is great and being able to put on teams is easy

Hard to print rosters and schedules. It also does not let the coaches know what shirt sizes the players requested. I have requested assistance several times for over 3 years and have not had that problem resolved.

The software is very modular and easy to get a basic product up and running that is very good. As we become more familiar with the software, we were able to improve our web site. The backend management is very good for managing users and registrations. It is also designed with security in mind to control access to different users. There is a great deal of flexibility in creating custom questions. The support has been tremendous! The admins respond very quickly with answers and are very clear in their response. They work the issue quickly and efficiently while describing the software so it becomes easier to use in the future.

We have a baseball / softball program. The software is mostly focussed on overall league management and does not tailor to specifics of our sport very well. Specifically referring to statistics and pitch count management. Blue Sombrero provides several good reports, but is not very user friendly when trying to create ad-hoc reports to answer questions not anticipated by the report designers.

It definitely comes with some learning barriers but after some research and knowing where to go for answers it has been the best tool we have been able to offer to our parents. The availability, convenience and ease of access is wonderful along with the wide range of customization options. We can get the word out to a large group of people quickly, professionally and will little effort. Our coaches are thrilled about the Team Pages and being able to communicate with their players and parents so information that was normally printed and handed out is never overlooked, forgotten or mistakenly gets thrown away.

The only thing I would say that I like the least would be the lack of information bubbles while managing content of a page or how to add hyperlinks, what a URL is, etc without having to always reference the support page and search for an answer based on whether you asked the right question or used the right keywords. For anyone who does not have technical or computer experience wouldn't know what most of the stuff that is required when building your website. Other than that, it was an amazing learning experience and I have a new found curiosity for the IT world.

Love the all in one package that sports connect offered. Very easy to implement and manage

Wish it would have ability for text messaging

There are several good features with the site and software. But there have been a lot of surprises along the way that were unexpected. That, combined with the lack of customer support, has lead us to search for an alternative solution.

It is easy to setup a new league and its registration. The interaction with the GameChanger Team Manager app is great also.

Customer support has gone to virtually non-existent over the last year. Most emails to the support team go unanswered. If there is a response, it is usually weeks after the initial email is sent. I've reported bugs in the system to the support team which also go unaddressed and unanswered.

Great

Ease of use, user friendly for the team yo use.

Report options not user friendly could be easier to select items for reports.

Sports Connect is a very nice application that helped me complete my sports work and facilitate the management of my own football team among friends

The best thing about this app is flexibility in use, never complicated and faster customer service, even in light of the Covid-19 crisis.

No, I see that it is a beautiful and integrated application, but sometimes it becomes slow in some things. I hope that this problem will be improved.

Great business partnership with Sports Connect

We truly appreciate Sports Connect and all of the options provided.

We have no complaints about Sports Connect

Sports Connect is fantastic, making managing our League funds, registrations and communication a breeze.

The ability to create teams and schedules that populate automagically in GameChanger is a game changer, but that's not all. Sports Connect is a proper CRM made easy.

Payment processing could use a revamp, removing check options for parents and separating out sponsor payments (so they don't get saddled with a max family cap), and adding venmo or paypal would be perfect.

Overall it's pretty good.

For those registering their children they can navigate pretty easily.

On an administrative level, it is nice and somewhat easy but I do feel there could be less steps for finding answers and setting us new programs.

Sports connect is great to have for any sports league. It has so many functions and features that help make administrators jobs easier.

Sports connect is a little hard to figure out how to use. It is t very self explanatory. But customer service is always great. They walked me through so many features and helped me figure out how to use all of the features.

Easy to set up, customer service is great, provides a lot of functionality for FREE!! Our league was looking for a solution that wasn't a heavy financial burden. As a small league, we couldn't afford big costs but also didn't want a bare bones product. This software more than covered our needs and was given to us at no cost.

Not everything fits out of the box, so some things may need to be tweaked for your particular league. If there is any complaint it is that the software can be slow at times. Screens take a little longer to load than others. Also, tweaks to the UI could make updating scores or sending emails a little more user friendly.

Outstanding. Far superior product to League One.

Reports are great sources of data for marketing purposes. Free Sports Connect Accounts for all coaches is a very valuable communication tool. Creating and managing teams is easy to do.

Refunds for customers could be an easier and more intuitive process.

Saved time and it helped automate our player data.

Easy to use out of the, but customizable if you want to get a little more advanced. Can start "basic" and build it out as you get more comfortable. The online documentation on how to setup different things is excellent (different payment options, plans, discounts, etc...) Reports give a lot of data. Online payment saves a ton of time and all the registration data is online. No more paper forms to deal with! We went completely online.

A few reports could be a little more intuitive, but generally speaking everything you want is there. May just have to dig into some of the advanced options to add fields to them.

1. Ease of use. 2. Reports function was awesome. 3. Coordinators found sorting teams very easy. 4. Some divisions used the stats/websites function and loved it.

Very user friendly and easy to use. People were able to register fairly easily with very few issues.

1. Assigning user roles is tedious. I'm not sure if there is a more efficient way, but finding the coaches/volunteer names in a drop down box that contains every person that registered is a little annoying. 2. We had some issues with people being able to upload PDFs ... 99.9% were user issues. 3. Registering on phones/tablets caused some issues too. Not sure if the site was intended for model use, but it seemed to be a common thread that parents would bring up (unable to register on their phone, but were able to on a computer)