I don't think Arizona or any other school is coveting Pastner. I think Arizona would have a particularly hard time getting its Board of Regents to sign off on hiring a coach from a program coming off probation to replace a coach that is about to put his own school on probation.
All the seniors are gone. I can't imagine a good reason to return to college for the sole purpose of playing on its basketball team. I also don't believe Devoe will get the kind of feedback he would need to be an early entrant to the NBA draft.
So Josh Okogie, Ben Lammers, Tadric Jackson, Quinton Stephens, and Cory Hayward (all Gregory recruits) had nothing to do with Pastner winning ACC coach of the year.
Josh, don't worry. In the interest of self-preservation, keep telling everyone what a major rebuild this is, how nobody expected you to win more than 1 game, and to wait 5 years until we got old.
I was at Tech during the early Bobby Cremins years. I would rate this year's coaching job behind his 1985 - 1992 and Hewitt's 2004. I would also point out that Pastner inherited a program that was in much better shape than his predecessor. Gregory is the one who had to coach games in Gwinnett...
NCAA limits weekly practice time to 20 hours during the season. With games, the commitment is probably about 30 hours per week. Which is still astronomical.
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