If his name was Gary Smith and he was a stand out high school running back in Montana and a transfer from Ole Miss and he blew off summer workouts, fumbled and nearly cost us a game (on 3 carries), blown a handful of blocking assignments in limited action and was otherwise adding nothing positive to the fortunes of the team, upon hearing he had quit the team everyones reaction would be "Who gives a eff"
edit: except the Mormons who are KSU fans....they would have said "who cares"