UPDATE: Corbett Took Credit For Firing Paterno

From StateCollege.com:  Paterno and Penn State President Graham Spanier were dismissed Nov. 9, and ESPN cited one senior Penn State faculty member as seeing Corbett at a local bar the next night and calling him effusive…

That Saturday, the day of the Penn State-Nebraska football game, former player Bob Capretto told ESPN he had a conversation with Corbett about the board’s actions to fire Paterno.

“And the governor said, ‘I told them to do it,’ ” Capretto said. “He was proud of it. I told him, ‘You don’t realize what you have created here. The damage to Penn State is enormous.’ ” … (more)

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  1. Don’t you just LOVE how involved he’s been on the board since he attended the meeting in January, 2012 and attempted to pretend he could give a rat’s ass about university business? He came, he destroyed, he celebrated and then he went back to the Governor’s Mansion and started to spin the story! Nobody will forget! (From StateCollege.com)

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