As it usually goes with preseason predictions, lists and rankings, once the games are played all of that goes out the window.
When Georgia Tech hired Josh Pastner away from Memphis last April, Yahoo’s Pat Forde called the hire “confusing.” The AJC’s Mark Bradley basically tagged Pastner as the next Paul Hewitt, but did leave room to be proven wrong.
In a bit of a blind squirrel moment, I felt rather at ease with the hire and said as much in a column I wrote entitled “Georgia Tech’s Pastner hire a good one, plain and simple.