I'd say Pastner underachieved this year. I think a coach like Tony Bennett and some other top coaches would have set us up better with the same players this year. There are some places in recruiting support and other areas where I think Pastner could use some support. He could either use a dynamic recruiter assistant or really sharp offensive assistant to use our players better. He's lost games he shouldn't have, but he's also shown an ability to overachieve--and having seen coaches that won't overachieve, like Gregory, I don't want to downplay how nice that is.
As for attendance, I'm baffled. On one hand, Hawks attendance has also been low, and they have a star and some watchable players. On the other hand, I feel like we do the bare minimum to publicize our games, ticket availability, or to draw people in. To some degree, I think Stansbury should find ways to get butts in seats or make it easy to get into seats and know about them. Maybe we think "we have a good program, people will just show up", but that's not enough. Maybe we are doing the right things and I'm just missing them, but printing tickets and hoping people will buy them isn't a winning strategy.
