Lee Corso to sign off as 'College GameDay' analyst in August

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Lee Corso will retire from ESPN's "College GameDay" in August, ending a career with the show that began in 1987.

"My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years," Corso said in a statement released by ESPN. "I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement."

Corso, who turns 90 on Aug. 7, is widely known for his headgear picks and "not so fast, my friend" retort when he disagreed with someone on the panel.

The headgear segment, which started in October 1995 in a game at Ohio State, has seen Corso go 286-144 in his 430 selections. In addition to wearing helmets, mascot heads and other hats, he has dressed up as the Fighting Irish leprechaun from Notre Dame, the Stanford tree and historic figures James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. His affection for the Oregon Duck led to a ride on a motorcycle with the mascot. He once held a live baby alligator in his hands while picking Florida to win and took on pop star Katy Perry in picks from The Grove at the University of Mississippi.

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Corso to end four-decade run with 'GameDay'

ESPN analyst Lee Corso, widely known for his headgear picks and "not so fast, my friend" retort, will retire from "College GameDay" in August.
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Go Gophers!!
 









He’s a national treasure and will be missed. If he’s replaced it will be someone far more corporate with far less soul. Read a blurb that he’ll have one last GameDay on Aug 30, and the only two real options are Bama at FSU (his alma mater where he played football) or Texas at OSU, where he did his first headgear pick. Wherever it ends up, I’m sure ESPN will make that a tear-jerker.
 



BleedGopher said:
The headgear segment, which started in October 1995 in a game at Ohio State,
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I read this too and I'm almost 100% positive that it was 1996. Herbstreit didn't work on Gameday until 1996 and he was the one who knew a cheerleader (his wife) who could get the buckeye headgear.

C'mon ESPN, get it right.
 


MaxyJR1 said:
It is time and it was a great run in NCAA football culture. Glad he got to come to MN in my lifetime.
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I was *this* close to getting a picture with him. I was in the Gameday crowd all morning and when it was over, people went up to the stage. You could tell he was "feeble" as he was walking off and there was a woman in front of me and she asked for a pic and he took one with her. I just didn't have the heart to ask him to, so I passed and watched him walk into his tent.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Yep.....he probably should have retired a few years ago but dude is a legend.
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I'd agree with you. He could have left 4-5 years ago and had same legend status. He was getting a bit hard to watch at the end. Tough call for a network to make to remove someone of his status though.
 




Remembering a few of the Minnesota-Indians games during his head coaching tenure—1976: opened the season on a beautiful day with a dominant, promising win—started the Big Ten 3-0 and led Iowa 12-0 at half time before a big 50,000 crowd & inexplicably fell apart to a lousy Hawkeye team which killed the season; 1977: the week after the monumental Michigan upset went to Bloomington and led at half time before the defense collapsed in the second half; 1978: patience was beginning to run thin for Cal Stoll and Minnesota trailed something like 31-7 at homecoming only to rally to win 32-31 with a Paul Rogind walk-off field goal. In 1980 , IIRC, Karl Mecklenberg (sp?) had a huge sack game before a very sparse crowd (maybe one of the smallest for a Big Ten game in the history of Memorial Stadium).
 


1st game I ever saw at Memorial Stadium was Indiana. Had to be 1973. I've written this before, his QB was Willie Jones and basketball great Quinn Buckner started at safety. Gophers won nicely.
 

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