Note: This is a snippet of an article that ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and gives great insight into the time that ACC coaches put into summer recruiting. It also shows why Josh Pastner is such a successful recruiter.
The full article is linked below.
LAS VEGAS — The air conditioning in his rental car was on full blast, and so was Josh Pastner.
It was just after 8 a.m., and the Georgia Tech coach was on the phone with the mother of a prospect updating him on his new schedule now that he had switched AAU teams. (She would text back later informing him that he had switched back.) At the end of the short phone call, Pastner told the woman she appreciated the call. Between winning the lottery and her calling, he told her, he would choose the phone call.
“Make sure you’ve got (the phone number) locked in,” he said. “Coach Pastner. Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech. Coach Pastner.”
This was last Thursday, Pastner’s first full day in a four-day stay in Las Vegas, one of the major destinations on the summer recruiting calendar. Hundreds of AAU teams descend upon the desert to play in one of three tournaments, drawing hundreds of college coaches, including Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina’s Roy Williams and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, as well as the ACC’s reigning coach of the year.
