Jared Baszler

Software Developer at Athlete Network. Former golf coach at South Dakota State. Proud husband of Ashley & father of Jack & Logan! On the @flutterdev Bandwagon

[Rabbit Tracks @rabbittracks605]

Last season, SDSU FB averaged 17,640 fans per game, which tops these 2026 FBS programs:

//Big Ten
Northwestern* - 11.6k

//American
Temple: 17.7k
Tulsa: 16.4k
Charlotte: 13.6k

//Mountain West
NDSU: 16.1k
UTEP: 15.8k
San Jose St: 14.0k
Hawaii: 13.7k
N. Illinois: 9.3k

//Sun Belt:
L-Monroe: 17.5k
S. Alabama: 17.3k
Arkansas St: 17.0k
Georgia St: 15.5k

//MAC:
C. Michigan: 16.3k
Sacramento St: 15.5k
E. Michigan: 14.9k
Buffalo: 13.8k
Miami OH: 11.7k
Kent St: 9.9k
Ball St: 8.9k
Umass: 8.8k
Akron: 7.7k

//CUSA:
Delaware: 16.8k
W. Kentucky: 14.8k
FIU: 13.9k
Louisiana Tech: 13.7k
Middle Tennessee: 12.3k
Missouri St: 11.6k
Kennesaw St: 10.8k
New Mexico St: 9.5k
Sam Houston St: 4.7k

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@AKenkel61 @dwlub_devin College golf is very much a team sport.

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@Woodsman602 @IceBorg This is my thought - they are dumping the program. I have zero insider info that this might happen - just my gut feeling.

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@MattEinspahr @JordanF91809812 @RBoltGolf @mysticlake You are delusional 🤦🏻‍♂️

18 @ Dacotah Ridge might be one of the best holes in the entire state of MN!

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@JordanF91809812 @RBoltGolf @mysticlake Miles better? You are definitely in the minority on that thought. Dacotah Ridge wins against the other two in MN and it's not even close.

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@CallahanGr35457 @anithrr @stevewhitenews @MattJZimmer It's actually not - they run deals all the time. I've been paying this for the past year or so.

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

When the largest wildfire in Nebraska history tore through Mike and Kayla Wintz’s Sandhills ranch, it wiped out the grass and hay their cattle depend on. Their livelihood was gone — until strangers from across the country stepped in. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Nick Saban on why you should confront people:

[Zak Blair @coachzblair10]

Here we go again. Another over the top celebration at 12u. If you think this is good for baseball, you are the problem.

Bat almost hits him in the face after the spike, then all the "look at me" antics, and you gotta love the cameraman on the field running with the kid.

What a joke. It's all a show...🤦🏼‍♂️

[Riley Jensen @RileyJensen]

30 years ago I was the starting QB at Utah State University. My senior year I got benched. For the next 15 years I walked around feeling like a certified loser. Then I read this quote from Pat Summitt:
'Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point.
Wanting to win is the point.
Not giving up is the point.
Never letting up is the point.
Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.'
It snapped me out of it. If you’re still carrying a sports setback, a benching, a missed opportunity, or any “I’m not enough” story… this is your permission slip to drop it. The game isn’t over. Your story is not yet written. You are still a work in progress. The point is you keep wanting it. You keep getting up. And you listen to that quiet voice that says, "I will try again tomorrow."

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

500k followers giveaway pt 1!

My golf bag plus some @Titleist goodies

Comment, like, repost to enter. Must be a follower

Clubs not included unfortunately*
Still need those for my day job

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist Thanks for all the updates!

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

This literally gave me goosebumps!

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Rich Eisen officially returns to Bristol to host SportsCenter on ESPN, complete with a throwback intro and studio. 📺🎙️

[Tim Hill @TH_Hoops]

🚨 @SummitHoops Announcement 🚨

For fans that interact with the Reaching The Summit podcast account. It was hacked overnight & already sending spam messages. Do NOT click or respond to anything from it. I don’t run the account but will know if or when the issue is resolved.

[Jason Lalk @jlalk]

I spent 5 hours on my feet at Augusta before I even saw a golf shot.

Went to the Masters practice round this week...best Tuesday of my life.

We got there at 6 AM. Already a long line at the first gate.

By 7:15 we were through. By 9:00 we still hadn't touched the course.

Here's where all that time went:

1) The merch shop is controlled chaos.

No phones allowed inside. So you're just standing in line making friends with strangers for 30 minutes.

Once you're in, most of the good stuff is behind the counter on display with a number. You walk up and say "I'll take three of number 73 and two of 57."

No price tags visible on most of it. It almost feels like a shopping spree, which is only made worse by the fact that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime trip.

I've never spent more money before 9AM.

2) The course is nothing like TV.

The elevation changes are insane. The first tee drops about 50 feet before climbing back uphill. I had no idea.

The green on 7 is more tilted than you'd ever guess.
The approach on 8 is way steeper than it looks on screen.

The fairway bunkers are so deep that I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

3) People make big sacrifices to get to Augusta

At Amen corner, I met two Australian guys who flew in from Sydney.

Their plane had to turn around over Fiji because a passenger went into anaphylactic shock from trail mix.
One had a five-week-old baby at home.
The other had a 20-month-old and a pregnant wife.

They still made the trip.

4) The bathroom situation deserves its own post.

They have attendants in the men's room directing traffic. "Number two? Against the wall. Number one? This line."

There's a dedicated attendant to wiping down the toilets after each person uses it.

No other event moves people around as efficiently as the Masters

5) 16 is electric.

Practice round Tuesday is when they skip balls across the water.

The crowd loses it every time someone tries.
Goes absolutely nuts when one makes it across.

Watched Rory skip one that rolled all the way through the green into the crowd and trickled back out. He tried to play it from there. Almost came back to his feet.

6) The end of the day was the best part.

By late afternoon, most players were off the course. Almost everyone had cleared out from Amen Corner.

We walked back to 12 and it was just... quiet. Peaceful.

Then watched the grounds crew replace divots on the 12 tee box.

They carve out oval-shaped pieces, lay in fresh sod, and hammer it down with a mallet. On every single tee box. Every single day.

That's Augusta.

I also brought my camera for the first time in a while.

I used to shoot golf content on the side, and it felt really good to pick it back up again.

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

But - not the best player in the @TheSummitLeague ???

[Jackrabbit WBB @GoJacksWBB]

The Becky Hammon Player of the Year 🌟

Brooklyn Meyer is the best mid-major player in the country!

#GoJacks 🐰

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

This is gold.

[Patrick Jones @pjonesbaseball]

I had a conversation with a Power 4 college coach who’s been doing this for 25+ years.

We were talking about the mentality of high school players during the recruiting process.

Here’s what he told me:

“What these kids don’t realize is…

I don’t care how many followers you have.
I don’t care how many home runs you hit in travel ball.
I don’t care how many offers you have.
I don’t care about your ranking.
I don’t care how hard you can hit a ball.
I don’t care about your metrics.

The only thing I care about is this:

Are you going to produce in between those white lines when we play this season?”

Then he said something else that hit:

“They’ve been so protected that the first time they fail, they quit… or they transfer.”

And here’s the part that matters.

The biggest development mistake I see?

Players don’t plan for failure.

They plan for success.
They visualize success.
They expect success.

But they don’t prepare for 0-4.
They don’t prepare for getting booed.
They don’t prepare for sitting the bench.
They don’t prepare for struggling for 3 weeks.

So when it happens — and it will — they panic.

Instead of executing a pre-made plan, they try to create one while emotional.

That never works.

Failure is coming.

The question is:
Did you already decide how you’re going to handle it?

[Jared Baszler @jaredbaszler]

@_junaidkhalid1 @om_patel5 And pretty syntax and code matters way less now because there is such a smaller chance that a human is gonna follow up and tweak anything in the future.

[Craig Doty @CoachDoty]

Why invest in college sports? College presidents, board members, athletic directors, admissions offices, and fundraising teams know that successful athletics enrolls students, fills beds, and builds new buildings.

Florida Gulf Coast’s admissions applications increased over 27% after their Sweet 16 run. Visits on the FGCU admissions page jumped from 2,280 to 42,793.

Butler’s applications nearly tripled after two Final Fours while the university was able to build, expand, and upgrade $255M in campus facilities including a business school and a new arts center.

George Mason’s admissions office inquiries went up 350% after their Final Four run in 2006 including a 54% increase in out-of-state applications.

In the 1980’s, John Chaney’s men’s basketball program changed the landscape of Temple University as a whole helping increase freshmen enrollment by 18.1% and transfer enrollment by 6.1%.

Nick Saban’s football program helped propel the University of Alabama. Between 2007 and 2022, enrollment at Alabama increased by 51%, from 25,580 to 38,645 students. In that same time, the college more than tripled its endowment, surpassing a record $1 billion in 2022. It also has nearly doubled its physical footprint, adding an engineering quad and state-of-the-art dorms and recreational facilities.

[FauxCoachWoodard @FauxCoachWoodar]

Great team. Was an awesome high school game to 👀 when they visited the ‘21 @TBirdBB squad:

Chucky Hepburn
-PG Toronto Raptors

Frankie Fidler
-SF Michigan State

William Kyle III
- C UCLA/Syracuse

Josiah Dotzler
- PG Creighton/South Dakota

Jaden Jackson
-SG South Dakota State