Doug Compton is in his first season as an assistant coach with UT Arlington in 2023-24.
Compton is responsible for player development, but is also able to engage in coaching activities as part of the NCAA’s additional two (2) coaches in 2023-24 who can participate in skill instruction, but may not recruit off campus.
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Compton, who played at nearby Texas Wesleyan in Fort Worth, most recently served as an assistant coach and video coordinator for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League during the 2022-23 season.
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Other coaching stops in Compton’s career include boys varsity assistant coach at The Pembroke Hill School in Missouri (2020-22), Blue Valley Northwest High School in Kansas (2019-20) and in Italy with the Fiat Torino Italian Basketball Club (2018-19) as a special assistant to Hall of Famer Larry Brown. Compton got his start in college basketball as a video coordinator for Southern Mississippi for the 2016-17 campaign.
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Beyond his coaching experience, Compton is a respected skill developer. In 2014, he founded 4theLove (4 the Love of the Game), and since then has coached and mentored five High School McDonald’s All-Americans and more than 30 athletes who have earned a Division-I scholarship.
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Compton also has led NBA pre-draft workouts for Excel Sports Management, working daily with numerous eventual NBA Draft lottery picks. In the past two NBA Drafts (2022 and 2023), Compton aided in daily pre-draft workouts with a dozen players who were eventually drafted, including 10 from the 2022 Class – two of whom were lottery picks (Johnny Davis and Ousmane Dieng).
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As a student-athlete at Texas Wesleyan from 2014-16, Compton – a 2016 TWU graduate – was a starting guard and team captain, helping guide the Rams to a Sooner Athletic Conference Championship and a #3 national ranking at the NAIA level. He began his collegiate career at Kansas from 2010-12, serving as a practice player and volunteer student video coordinator under Hall of Famer Bill Self.
