Josh Pastner led Georgia Tech to an ACC Title last year and an NCAA appearance. That’s great. When that happens, you should have set the foundation for future success.
When it doesn’t, then you have to ask what happened. When you follow up an ACC Title, by becoming the worst team in the ACC the next year, you have to question everything about the direction of the program. Tuesday’s pounding at the hands of the team formerly in last place in the ACC NC State where they trailed at one point by 30.
This sent Georgia Tech to the bottom of the ACC standings.
I stand by that the ACC Title bought Pastner 2 years. With the state of the football program, Pastner is still light years ahead of Geoff Collins as well.
That doesn’t mean Josh Pastner should be getting pass on the season. If Georgia Tech cares about athletics then it doesn’t matter what is happening in football, Pastner needs to enter next season on the hot seat.
It was his failure to land quality a big in the transfer portal in the off-season that in part is leading to one of the worst seasons at Georgia Tech in recent memory. I’ve heard Pastner in interviews suggest it was Jose Alvarado and Moses Wright’s late NBA decisions that were the reason he couldn’t land a quality transfer. I find that inexcusable for a veteran head coach, that already got burned for a lack of preparation by Josh Okogie turning pro a few years earlier.
This is an unacceptable pattern of getting caught “off-guard” by Pastner.
With 0 committs coming for next year, and Michael Devoe and Jordan Usher departing, Pastner will have to basically hit the lottery in the transfer portal to not have next season end in his 7th straight without an NCAA victory and 6th without an NCAA appearance.
The COVID 17-14 team wasn’t making the NCAA tournament either.
Georgia Tech AD Todd Stansbury is faced with the task of trying to explain how Georgia Tech currently has the worst combination of Men’s basketball and football in the ACC and arguably the worst in the country in 2022.
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