What defines the health of a major college athletics program?
Is it success in every sport?
Is it the ability of its teams to generate revenue, through tickets sold or television contracts?
Is it the rate at which its student-athletes graduate?
Or is it simply how good its football team is?
The answers differ depending on whom you ask, and most athletic administrators would lobby for an “E. All of The Above” option. But if your answer to the last question is “pretty good” or better, chances are your athletic department is in good shape.
On Friday, Penn State’s Board of Trustees voted, by a comfortable margin, to push through plans for an eight-figure renovation of the Lasch Building, also known as Nittany Lion football headquarters.
