As much as I love Kansas State and Manhattan, when I was 17, I was pretty desperate to go out of state. The honest truth is that the only reason I stayed was because it made financial sense. Then the only reason I stayed in the general area after college was that I intended to marry a girl who didn't want to move out of state.
I mean, I get it. Seiler could be doing a total stud boss job of recruiting the kid, but maybe he just wants to leave. It's not like he's saying he wants an OU or NU offer. Almost all of his destination points there are about 8+ hours from home with the exception of Missouri, and that's probably, what, a 5 hour drive from Wichita?
He strikes me as a kid that just wants to move away first and foremost, but that's baseless speculation on my part.