ESPN President Announces Plan For Lee Corso In 2025
11/24/2024 07:59 PM
Lee Corso has been a mainstay of ESPN's college football coverage for decades, appearing on College GameDay, discussing the biggest games of the week. But will the 89-year-old college football analyst be a part of the show in 2025?
Corso has missed some shows this year due to health issues. He doesn't do as much on the air as he used to, as ESPN has made some prominent additions to the program, in Nick Saban and Pat McAfee. Corso still does his mascot pick and appears throughout the show, but it's not like it once was. Still, college football fans enjoy seeing him on the air, interacting with Kirk Herbstreit and the rest of the panel.
College football fans are constantly wondering about Corso's future on the show, though. Will he be back in 2025?
ESPN president Burke Magnus appeared on Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina's sports media podcast earlier this week. He was asked about the network's plans for Corso.
ESPN's president announced that the network will be taking things year by year for Corso, as they've been doing in recent years. It sounds like a decision on Corso won't be made until sometime in 2025 at the earliest - perhaps not until the spring or summer, after Corso has had some time to recover from the 2024 season and think things over.
"I think we're going to do what we've done now for a couple years running, which is we're gonna have a conversation with him after the season and see where things are," Magnus said.
"You know, he's a special guy," the ESPN boss continued. "I mean, he's one of the nicest men you or any of your listeners or anybody on Earth could ever come across. And he's been absolutely iconic on the show. So we're going to get through the playoff this year, let everybody decompress, and then we'll have some time to figure out what we're going to do for next season."
That sounds like the smart move. Clearly, Corso still loves doing it, but it makes sense to take things year by year - or even month by month - at this point.
ESPN's College GameDay will be back on the road this week, heading to College Station, for the rivalry game between Texas and Texas A&M.
The college football pregame show will air from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. E.T. on ESPN.
