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The grandfather of the game is walking away, which is sort of apropos in these vapid and vacuous times.
It’s not your grandfather’s college football anymore, and now the old guy made it official by exiting the building.
Lee Corso, the unintended glorious gift to America’s obsession with televised football, will retire from ESPN’s “College GameDay” after the first week of the 2025 season.
Maybe we can get him to turn off the lights on the way out, too.
Am I the only one who sees this surreal irony? While social media is flush with memories of Corso days gone by, let’s not undersell the obvious final connection of out with the old and in with the new.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the sport’s ambassador is leaving after the first week of a season where players are officially paid to play, earning a shared percentage of media rights revenue.
Back when Corso made Thursday Night football electric – literally, electric – and long after the NFL commandeered the night, the idea of pay for play was the NCAA’s mortal sin. Players receive plenty with a scholarship and room and board, thank you.
And if they’re lucky, they’ll get a few, wink-wink, hundred dollar handshakes along the way.
There was a time two decades ago – I’m not making this up – when Steve Spurrier offered up the idea of coaches pooling together some extra cash to give players money. You know, walking around cash.
He was so adamant about it, he threatened to release the names of the coaches in the SEC who refused to pay their part.
Now we have a marginally successful quarterback holding up a storied…
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