""Appreciate you, young man." With all due respect to "Not so fast, my friend," those aren't the words that first come to my mind when I think of Lee Corso, who will be making his final "College GameDay" appearance Saturday at Ohio State. Instead, it's that first sentence. Because those are the first words I ever heard from Coach. Well, the first I heard in person."
"By the time he said that to me, on Saturday, Oct. 1, 1994, I had already heard him say so many words, but always through a television speaker. I had been watching him on ESPN for seven years. When "College GameDay" debuted on Sept. 5, 1987, I was a high school student living in a college football-crazed house in Greenville, South Carolina. My father was an ACC football official and my role at the house was to get up Saturday mornings and make sure the VCR was rolling on Dad's game that day so he could break down the film when we got home from church on Sunday."
Lee Corso will make his final College GameDay appearance Saturday at Ohio State. The first words heard in person were "Appreciate you, young man." That in-person exchange occurred on Oct. 1, 1994, after years of seeing Corso only through a television speaker. College GameDay debuted on Sept. 5, 1987, and quickly became part of television Saturday mornings for college football fans. A household routine centered on an ACC official father and a VCR that recorded games for film breakdowns. Tim Brando, Beano Cook and Lee Corso formed the original on-air lineup, and Corso arrived with a long coaching résumé including Indiana and the USFL.
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