Everything about Lee Corso totally explained
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Leland "Lee" Corso (born
1936) is a sports broadcaster and
football analyst for ESPN. He has been featured on
ESPN's
College GameDay program since its inception and appears annually as a commentator in
EA Sports'
NCAA Football. In the off season, Corso serves as Director of Business Development for
Dixon Ticonderoga, a Florida based pencil manufacturing company.
Biography
College playing career
Corso was born in
Lake Mary,
Florida, and attended
Miami Jackson Senior High where he played quarterback. He played college football at
Florida State University, where he was a roommate of football player and actor
Burt Reynolds. He was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. Corso was the starting quarterback for the South in the 1956
Blue-Gray Game, though his squad lost to the
Len Dawson-led North team, 14-0.
Coaching career
Upon graduating from Florida State in
1959 with a degree in
physical education. Corso became the quarterbacks coach at the
University of Maryland under his former FSU coach
Tommy Nugent. In
1969, he was given the head coaching position at the
University of Louisville. After taking Louisville to only its second-ever bowl game in
1972, he was hired by
Indiana University.
Corso's record was 41-68-2 over his ten years at Indiana, and in
1983 he became an announcer for the burgeoning
United States Football League (USFL).
Corso was the 16th head
college football coach for the
Northern Illinois University Huskies located in
DeKalb, Illinois and he held that position for the
1984 season. His career coaching record at Northern Illinois was 4 wins, 6 losses, and 1 tie. This ranks him 17th at Northern Illinois in total wins and 13th at Northern Illinois in winning percentage.
After his brief stint as head coach at Northern Illinois, Corso returned to the USFL—this time as a coach for the
Orlando Renegades.
Broadcasting career
In
1987, Lee was hired by ESPN as an analyst for the
College GameDay program. He often plays the role of comic foil to co-hosts Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as they cover the major college football games from August until January. Corso's catch phrase, "Not so fast, my friend!", with pencil always in hand, is usually directed at Kirk Herbstreit, in disagreement with Herbstreit's predictions. Corso is also known for ending every weekly show with his "Mascot Head Prediction," when he chooses who he thinks will win the game at GameDay's site by donning the headpiece of the school's mascot. In 2000, a game between
Virginia Tech and
Georgia Tech was canceled because Corso's rental car was struck by lighting in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Corso makes a brief cameo in a
2006 Nike commercial featuring the fictional Briscoe High School football team, portrayed by football icons such as
Michael Vick,
LaDainian Tomlinson,
Brian Urlacher,
Troy Polamalu, by coaches
Don Shula,
Jimmy Johnson, and
Urban Meyer, and by fellow FSU great Deion Sanders. Corso takes his hawk mascot head off while the game's deciding play unfolds in
slow-motion.
Corso also annually appears in
EA Sports NCAA Football titles along with Herbstreit and play-by-play man
Brad Nessler. The 2006 edition of the game begins with Corso making his mascot head prediction.
In
2001, Corso spearheaded an effort to create a
crayon completely out of
soybeans.
Coaching record
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