Lee Corso will get brutally trustworthy about ESPN retirement
Lee Corso would commerce in some presumed good climate and stress-free days to be choosing up outsized mascot heads each Saturday like he did for 38 years.
“Awful. I hate it,” the 90-year-old Corso advised WESH in Florida of retirement. “I can’t watch ‘School GameDay.’ I can’t get used to it. I’m not working anymore. I used to fly throughout. It sucks.”
It’s not stunning that Corso just isn’t taking to retirement since school soccer and “School GameDay” had been such an integral a part of his life earlier than his August retirement.
Corso had been with the present since its 1987 inception, and commenced his well-known headgear phase in 1996 throughout a present at Ohio State.
His ultimate present on Aug. 30 aired from Columbus, and he accurately picked the reigning champion Buckeyes to beat then-No. 1 Texas to complete 287-144 in his choices, per ESPN.
“My household and I might be without end indebted for the chance to be a part of ESPN and School GameDay for almost 40 years,” Corso stated in a press release after ESPN introduced his ultimate present in April. “I’ve a treasure of many mates, fond reminiscences and a few uncommon experiences to take with me into retirement.”
His ultimate present this yr supplied tender moments for Corso and his colleagues to savor, with the previous coach carrying a tuxedo for the event.
The “School GameDay” crew honored him by carrying headgear that includes Corso’s face, and ESPN aired a prolonged phase with followers, coaches, gamers and others thanking Corso for his legendary run.
Earlier than he turned a member of the media, Corso spent 15 years teaching Louisville (1969-72), Indiana (1973-82) and Northern Illinois (1984), compiling a 73-85-6 file.
He starred at Florida State within the Nineteen Fifties, incomes AP All-America honors in 1956 and coming into the varsity’s Corridor of Fame in 1978.
Corso held the varsity’s interceptions file for greater than twenty years.
