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Sandy Barbour Meets With Media For First Time Since Season Shutdown

Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour met with media on Monday for the first time since the Big Ten’s announcement that the 2020 fall athletic season would not take place.

Barbour spent about an hour with the assembled media and dropped some interesting tidbits, including that she is unaware if a vote took place on the matter.

“It’s unclear to me whether there was every a vote or not,” she said. “But it is clear to me that Penn State and Eric Barron...as he took his thoughts to the Big Ten, into the various conversations they had, explored every option to play.