“My first question to anyone I (might) hire is, ‘Do you golf?’” Pastner said (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “If they say, ‘Yes,’ you can’t work for me, because that means five hours on a Sunday or on a Saturday. Can’t. Don’t want it. That’s for my assistant coaches. Any of my assistant coaches, if they’re golfers, not working for me.”
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According to CBS Sports, Pastner lived on a golf course while coaching at Memphis and even played on his middle school golf team, but his new gig will get his full attention as well the attention of his assistants.
“It’s not as much that it’s golf, it’s that, if you’re going to be here, you’re going to have to work like crazy. We’re rebuilding. It’s going to be a seven-day-a-week job,” he said.
Pastner said he plans to take his time building a coaching staff, and if he’s that picky he may not have a choice but to be patient.
