We only really heard one side of this story. Well, we really heard that side and then a bunch of opinions stemming from it. K-State looked bad during the whole process, and would have either way, but couldn't they have made things better by just letting granting her the release when the threat of tampering that worried them was over? They didn't, and instead went through all these — unnecessary imo — formalities before doing just that.
I'm of the opinion that the original denial and suspicions could have been legitimate, and though I don't know the particulars of what K-State knew or what the law allows them to say, they could have probably communicated much better, thus leaving looking a little better in the end.
I don't think there was any way Romero would have ended up being denied all together or some very limited group of schools. The whole "Welp, we went to our iron-clad committee and man, we can't go back on the committee because they're like level 10 necromancers and the code is enchanted like five times, so it's super irreversible."