Really a bad deal for Currie.
Doing his job in protecting the interests of the athletic department but not given any time by the player in question to fully ascertain the circumstances at hand and mitigate them before the player ran to the media. Then tossed under the bus by the media regarding a situation that he legally could not publicly comment on.
Here's what Currie could have done that could potentially avoid a shitshow:
1) Meet with Leti, explaining the situation as best you can BEFORE she goes to the media. Like, I don't know, ask her about her plans, like he supposedly did in his super secret confidential letter signed in purple sharpie.
2) If she goes to the media saying she has no idea why the transfer was denied, Currie can say, "Well, there's some things I can't talk about, and we're still doing research, but I've met with Leti and explained the situation as best I could."
That makes him look SO MUCH BETTER. IMO the media picked up on it mostly because of the lack of an explanation presented to Leti. If Currie can show he met with her, he looks a lot better.