Former K-State wide receiver Corey Sutton’s transfer isn’t going the way he planned. In a Thursday interview with KMAN, Sutton said K-State blocked his transfer to a list of 35 schools he listed as possible destinations. Sutton says he then appealed the ruling, but it was upheld Wednesday.
The K-State Student Athlete Handbook lists multiple factors that are considered when an athlete requests a transfer. They include: “GPA as it relates to APR (, undue burden or personal/family hardship on the student-athlete, conduct and honest communication by the student-athlete, the best interests of the student-athlete and the institution, and indications of tampering or undue influence regarding the student-athlete.”
Sutton’s Thursday comments can be listened to below:
K-State did not respond to KMAN’s request for comment, but head coach Bill Snyder spoke with 810 WHB in Kansas City Thursday.
“It’s my commitment that once we have signed the youngster, that we’re committed to him as long as he behaves himself,” Snyder said. “I accept a youngster that comes into our program as making a similar commitment with a handshake and obviously a signed piece of paper. I’ve always said a youngster is free to leave, but I’m not going to release the youngster. It doesn’t mean he can’t go someplace else and play, he can certainly do that.
“He wouldn’t be on athletic scholarship for a year’s period of time, but could still go and play and then go on scholarship after that. That’s a choice they have to make.”
