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Atlanta Media Responds To Josh Pastner’s Situation

Not damning yet but not exactly supportive either.

By JD King

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - FEBRUARY 27: Head coach Josh Pastner of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets disputes a call in the first half during a game against the Virginia Cavaliers at John Paul Jones Arena on February 27, 2019 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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For Josh Pastner, the combination of minimal success and an NCAA investigation at Georgia Tech could be major trouble.

And as the story kind of settles in, the Atlanta media has begun to react. This curiously non-committal piece from Steve Hummer in the Journal-Constitution ran on Monday.

Then on Tuesday, his colleague Mark Bradley came out with a somewhat harsher line. The article is titled “Tech’s issue: Is Josh Pastner more trouble than he’s worth?”

The thing about Pastner is people seem to want to like him and to pull for him but he keeps making it hard to do. We’ll see how much that ends up costing him with Georgia Tech.

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