Pastner’s job not at risk

Photo by Casey GomezWhen former Tech athletic director Mike Bobinski hired Josh Pastner, shortly before jetting off to Purdue, he made Pastner the third men’s basketball head coach on payroll, joining the recently fired Brian Gregory and the not-so-recently fired Paul Hewitt. And despite the fact that finances were tight, it was indeed time to find a new coach. Gregory had taken the reigns from Hewitt and picked up where his predecessor left off: disappointment. While Gregory was a perfectly respectable coach in the A-10 Conference, guiding his Dayton Flyers to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT championship in eight years, he could not come close to replicating that success in Atlanta. Three of his five seasons were losing campaigns, and the Jackets never reached the Top 25, or for that matter, the Big Dance.

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