The Board of Trustees all-time leading vote getter in alumni elections (15,629 votes in 2012) will not defend that title in 2015. Adam Taliaferro, a current trustee and former Penn State football player, will not seek reelection for a second term, per an email from Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship sent last week.
Pitt's offensive line coach thought he was clever, but Herb Hand was having none of that.
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Sandy Barbour's first public relations snafu as Penn State's athletic director may have just happened this morning in the form of an innocuous Tweet to a Michigan graduate. Barbour apologized to a Twitter user with fewer than 50 followers who made her displeasure known to Barbour about Penn State hockey's decision to add a 409 decal to its helmets on Friday's game to honor the late coach Joe Paterno.
Former Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden doesn't mind giving up his "official" title as the winningest D-1 college football coach of all time. In fact, he has even welcomed it. Bowden, now officially second on the all-time list with 377 wins, told the Associated Press that he is "OK" with the distinction.
Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a pro-Paterno group that has organized alumni over recent years in an attempt to change Penn State governance and right purported wrongs related to the Sandusky scandal, opposed today's settlement news that restored Penn State's 112 vacated wins and replaces the 2012 consent decree that the group has lobbied so hard against.