Two and a half months into the job, UCSB men’s basketball coach Joe Pasternack is going full throttle as a promoter of the university and the city.
“I told my wife the other day I don’t think I’ve been in a better place than Santa Barbara,” Pasternack said last week. “I think it’s the most spectacular city in America, maybe the world. It has something for everybody. I’m absolutely in love with it.”
His task is to give the city a winning major college basketball team, which former coaches Jerry Pimm and Bob Williams did most of their years at UCSB, and also a team that is exciting to behold.