What happens to Penn State football players after they graduate? Is there life after Penn State? Some go on to have successful careers in pro football and others turn to careers outside of football, but only a select few are enshrined in the Penn State Football Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame is in the Greenberg Indoor Sports Complex, within shouting distance of Joe Paterno's office. The complex was built in 1981 with a space reserved for a place to put all of the individual and team awards the football program has received.

The trophy cases, which were built separate from the building, were fit into the room and Penn State began inducting people. Players make the hall after they graduate and if they receive All-America or Academic All-America honors, some kind of national recognition or a Post Graduate Scholarship.

Since 1981, the football games — including two national championships — and has many graduates worthy of note. So, as one can imagine, those awards combined with inductees from the previous 95 years and the hall is starting to run out of space.

Bob Mitinger, a member of the hall, thinks that it should be made larger and there should also be halls of fame at Penn State for other sports besides football. The hall makes people who are involved with Penn State feel special, the former tight end said.

"It conveys pride, an internal stick-your-chest out sort of things. It shows that we've had a lot of good people play football here," Mittinger said.

John Bove, coordinator of football recruiting, said the hall was made primarily for people involved with the football program to come back and enjoy memories. But it's also for anyone who wants to come and see Penn State football tradition, he added.

George and Mildred Bishop, two tourists from Waverly, Ohio, thought very highly of the hall, but they agreed with Mitinger's assessment of it.

"We were just wondering where in the world they are going to put any more trophies," George said.

Many people visit the hall, but it depends on what time of the year it is, observed the football office secretary Mel Capobianco. She said the two busiest times are football weekends, when there is a steady stream of people, and in the summer, when football recruits and their parents come to see Paterno. But, she added, during the school year, groups of 30-60 grade-school kids on field trips come in to see the hall.

It doesn't seem that there is quite as much enthusiasm for the hall among the current student body, though. Many students haven't even heard of it, and John Lavrich, a senior who has been there once, said he thought it was an "over-sized trophy case."

But Bove said they weren't trying to advertise the hall on any great scale. He compared the hall to the Penn State Creamery — both depend on word of mouth for promotion.