(AP) -- The Penn State board of trustees is meeting, apparently to discuss whether President Rodney Erickson had the authority to agree to unprecedented NCAA sanctions against the football program without first getting board approval.
The trustees and Erickson assembled in a meeting room on the first floor of a hotel in the town of State College on Wednesday.
Reporters were kept out.
A person who was not authorized to talk about the meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity says the trustees were to confront Erickson over his acceptance of NCAA sanctions that will cost Penn State tens of millions of dollars and likely cripple its football team for years to come.
Penn State spokesman David La Torre says Erickson had authority to act without the approval of the full board.
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