It's not about it being Fitz....the real issue (as pointed out by stevedave) is that because of that story, Gary now will look like a lying POS, publically as well as internally, to everyone he's spent, what?, the last decade of his life working with?
I know that other coaches have done this (Saban), but what if Patterson isn't like that? What if Patterson is a guy who just says "F it, going to KSU doesn't feel right anymore, and if those bunch of idiots can't even run a press conference, why would I want to go work for/with them?". Then he waits for the TT job to open up and I would assume he'd be option #1 for them, and he really wouldn't have to uproot his family too much (or as much as he would to KSU) and would still be in TX and would be in a BCS conference.