BlueWhiteIllustrated.com – President Spanier talks about coaching salaries: “BWI: Recently, there was a great deal of controversy created by several different newspaper articles regarding the comments you made to Penn State’s Board of Trustees about how Penn State would avoid an ‘arms race’ relating to salary for Paterno’s successor. Were the editorials fair?
[Graham Spanier]: That’s often the case with sportswriters. This is very unusual that you as sportswriters are coming in to ask me something. In my 10 years as president of Penn State, I don’t think any sports columnist with the exception of a couple of Daily Collegian writers have ever called up and said I’d like to talk to you about something.’ Most sports columnists pick up a little tidbit somewhere and run off with it in a sometimes very crazy direction. …”