This season overall has not been as disappointing as some would make it out to be. There have been good road wins against Syracuse and Arkansas, plus a home win against Notre Dame.
Unfortunately, loses against a poor Georgia team at home and a blowout loss at home against Clemson negate the good wins in the minds of many, including local recruits.
Pastner was a good recruiter at Memphis. Memphis has a good local brand. Tech had a good brand in Atlanta 15 years ago, but not now. Too many years of bad ADs. People wonder why Pastner was a good recruiter at Memphis, but not so far at Tech. Selling is easier when you have a good product to sell. The product is stale.
Unless Pastner and Stansbury can rebuild that brand in basketball the way Collins is trying to do in football, recruiting will suffer-- and so will the program. If I had the answer, I'd be the AD.
Pastner needs a couple of breaks, like Cremins had with Price and Salley. I hope he gets them.