Lee Corso’s college football road is coming to an end the first week of this college football season. Coach Corso will be on the ESPN Gameday set one final time during week one of the 2025 College Football season. Word is the Gameday set will be in Columbus, Ohio to take in the Texas Longhorns visiting the Ohio State Buckeyes. Let’s hope Coach Corso picks Bevo and his prognostication is true.

I am in earnest. What worst place for Corso do his last show than Columbus, Ohio? If you have been there, you know what I mean. Let’s hope Bevo and Arch Manning show up in Buckeyeville and hand Ohio State their collective NIL jock strap.

Look, my wildest college football dream already came true.

I was there last October when Coach Corso came back to Indiana University for College Gameday. The Hoosiers were playing the Washington Huskies on the Big Ten Network. Still, ESPN College Gameday was there.

This was Indiana Football’s finest hour.

I was near tears in the press box knowing this is what we IU Football fans had all dreamed about for so long. We never thought we would ever get HERE. But, thanks to Coach Curt Cignetti, we got here. And I will face the music. No one was more skeptical of Cignetti’s hire than I was. I wrote about it. I own it. I apologize.

I assure you; I will revisit all of that and move forward with the 2025 season, which I am very optimistic about. Today, I celebrate Coach Corso.

This was the coach of my youth. Lee Corso was the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1973 to 1982. These were the years I was in kindergarten to the ninth grade. During this time my dad was a high school coach at high schools that were 50 or 90 miles from Bloomington. I attended MANY of Coach Corso’s games at IU. During Coach Corso’s days, the home bench was across the field from the press box. For what reason, I don’t know. Maybe he wanted to be on the side where the chains were located. I don’t know.

I would give ANYTHING, well, almost anything, to have the cassette tape my dad made of a Lee Corso speech Coach Corso made at the Coaches Clinic in Louisville in what year I have no idea. I know the speech. My audible memory remembers it. In that speech, Coach Corso taught me about discipline on defense and how to give your starting backfield so much room.

As a kid of nine years old, I was listening and studying the man who would one day being putting on a team’s headgear during the last segment of ESPN’s Gameday. We had no idea. Neither did he.

I am weary of the current college football horizon. My delight in watching the Canadian Football League, I have seen all of their games so far this season, and knowing they make a pittance compared to some NCAA players and ALL NFL players, makes me a CFL fan even more.

Still, I can’t keep my eyes off the Indiana Hoosiers. I expect Coach Corso will pick them to win in week#1.

Okay, what I am about to report will give you more insight into why I sincerely have a hard time with the current state of college football.

On October 23, 1976, it was reported that Indiana University was EXTENDING Lee Corso’s football coaching contract for another three years. Athletic Director Paul Deitzel believed this was needed to establish needed continuity moving forward. At the time of this contract EXTENSION…Coach Corso’s record at IU was 8-30-1.