Lee Corso retiring

[utvolpj]

Last broadcast will be week 1 of the 2025 season

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Overdue. Painful to watch the last couple years.

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

About 38 years too late.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Legend! Sad to see him go but it was past time.

 

[ttocswob]

After 38 un-credible years…

 

[n_huffhines]

Fkn finally. Bro should've stepped down 15 years ago

 

[PEPPERJAX]

He’s had a great career. I honestly thought Corso was going to retire after his stroke in 2009.

 

[McDad]

Will Herbie cry on air as they bid Corso farewell?

 

[IUGradVol]

Great career but definitely time for him to hang it up.

 

[IUGradVol]

Will Herbie cry on air as they bid Corso farewell?

I’m going to guess yes most likely

 

[OrangeInKy]

Hats off to those of you who have to take a dig at a 90 year-old because he didn’t have the opinions you wanted him to have. Classy.

 

[Volfan_1999]

Finally

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Will Herbie cry on air as they bid Corso farewell?

Right after they finish watching Brokeback Mountain.

 

[busper]

Finally

He's been retired

 

[McDad]

I think Greg Schiano is a great upgrade for Game Day. They would be lucky to hire such a capable person to replace Corso.

 

[farmdogvol]

Yes he should have done this a long time ago, but there is no bigger college football fan then LC.

 

[HeuperDrive]

About 38 years too late.

lmao what? Come tf on bro. Corso is a legend and acting like he was never good is just needless contrarianism. He’s only been bad for a few years now.

 

[Franklin_Vol09]

All you young kids don’t realize that Corso IS College Gameday. Yes, he was way past his prime. Yes his health prevented him from being his best version. But Herbie and the others love that man and Corso lived for show. Even in his old age, he didn’t bring the show down, it was great they could keep including him.

 

[DaddyChad]

Overdue. Painful to watch the last couple years.

Yep. That said though dude decided to work basically his entire life. Not many people are willing to do that even in a job they love.

 

[LouderVol]

definitely won't be sad to see him go in his current state. but definitely will remember the good times from him. hated seeing the decline from Covid on it got real noticeable.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

So my take is this kinda makes me a bit sad. Not sad for the reason that I thought he was great, more it's like man we're getting older.

As much as I have problems with a lot of the long time announcers, they're voices and personalities that that have been around since I was a kid and I've grown up listening to them. Danielson, Corso, Vitale, and in the past 8-10 years we've had Musburger and Lundquist. It's less how great they all were and more they were just there so long as voices I heard for 20-30 years. For all their faults part of me will always miss them even if they drove me crazy.

 

[volsrock09]

Will Herbie cry on air as they bid Corso farewell?

100% guarantee

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

As cringe as Corso has been the last few years, it saddens me to see the old ones leave.

I miss Al McGuire in March Madness and I'll miss Vitale when the time comes. I miss Cosell reporting John Lennon was shot. I miss the reverence with which Jim McKay reported the 1972 Olympics tragedy. Dizzy Dean and Harry Carey barely able to speak English.

Corso needs to retire but it is like changing wallets. Man, I hate changing wallets.

 

[ReBellVol]

It's been a longtime coming. I've felt for many years they should've done a recorded segment with him each week instead of putting him on live TV because he struggled.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

He's a legend, but it's time.