Ron Hunter was the only identifiable person who has worked in Georgia State athletics in the past several years, and now he’s gone. The man took an attention-starved, talent-bankrupt basketball program, which might as well have been a boarded-up motel sitting at the end of a dirt road, and quickly elevated it to one of the nation’s most charming NCAA Tournament stories — three times — and he was allowed to leave town.



I’m not suggesting Georgia State is not capable of hiring a competent replacement. But when an administration fumbles a situation as it has this one, it’s not creating much confidence for the future.



“I just wanted a long-term deal,” Hunter told The Athletic on Sunday. “So that’s on them. We could’ve had this thing done. I think they’re a little embarrassed right now, to be honest with you.”



Hunter, who led the Panthers to three Sun Belt Conference Tournament...