Lee Corso will have to retire from College GameDay eventually. Here are six people who could replace Corso on the weekly football pre-game show.
Lee Corso is eighty-two years old and will turn eighty-three before the start of the 2018 football season. Corso has been a fixture on ESPN’s College GameDay since 1987 seeing a revolving door of co-hosts. His relationship with fellow long-time GameDay talking head Kirk Herbstreit is obvious as you can tell Herbstret and Corso have a father-son type of bond on and off the set. However, in recent years Corso has been showing his age and could be due to retire after the 2018 season.
The dynamic of the GameDay set is that Herbstreit is a former starting quarterback at THE Ohio State and the son of a football coach. Corso is a former quarterback and cornerback but also a former Division I head football coach. With Kirk as the pretty boy star and Corso as the grizzled but funny former coach- the show always had a special vibe to it.
In recent years the main host has changed and 1991 Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard has joined the cast but the stars are still Herbstreit and Corso. There are other peripheral characters surrounding the football version of GameDay, such as David Pollack and Maria Taylor who have to get consideration. As well as Paul Finebaum, Tim Tebow and others.
If Lee Corso does retire, will the ESPN brass look for a celebrity, another former coach or a former star player to replace Mr. Corso?