The university’s Board of Trustees approved on Monday morning, a deal to recognize football’s playing surface as West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium. The 15-year deal is worth $50 million and will run from 2025 through 2039. Athletic director Pat Kraft presented the deal, which became the second-largest cash gift in university history.

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West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium is the new name for the field at Penn State's football stadium, starting this fall.

A group of Penn State trustees pushed back against a $50 million gift that would name the field at Beaver Stadium because they wanted the opportunity to honor former football coach Joe Paterno.

West Shore Home, a Pennsylvania-based home remodeling company, will pay $50 million over 15 years for the name West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium.

Penn State, despite plenty of pushback, made a massive move Monday by securing a new naming-rights deal for the field at Beaver Stadium — now known as West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium.

Penn State's Board of Trustees approved the renaming of the field at Beaver Stadium to West Shore Home Field, a Pa.-based home improvement company that reportedly bought the rights for $50 million.

Echoes of Shane McMahon’s Here Comes the Money rang through Central Pennsylvania on Monday when Penn State announced a $50 million deal to rename Beaver Stadium’s field, West Shore Home Field. Beaver Stadium Has a New Name West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium has a certain ring to it that is eerily reminiscent to

Matt McGloin, a Penn State trustee and former quarterback, says the naming rights deal for the Beaver Stadium field is "trying to erase" Joe Paterno's legacy.