Curt Cignetti recalled his interactions with the College GameDay legend and former Indiana football coach. College GameDay and Corso will be in Bloomington on Saturday.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Curt Cignetti has been around the college football world for his entire life. He also coaches Indiana, so it would have been a surprise if Cignetti had never had an interaction with former Indiana football coach Lee Corso.
ESPN’s College GameDay show will come to Bloomington for the second time in the show’s history on Saturday as Indiana hosts Washington at Noon ET. Corso has been on College GameDay from its inception in 1987. He’s become far more famous for his out-going personality on the program than he is for his football coaching career. Corso’s “no so fast!” declarations and his predictions done by putting the mascot of the school he chooses on his head have become part of college football lore.
“I called him on his birthday a month or two ago. He called back. We had a nice conversation,” Cignetti said. “West Virginia waxed Syracuse pretty good and got the bid. That was probably the first time I was aware of who he was, yeah,” Curt Cignetti said.“I can’t believe it. West Virginia! Hell, that team has beaten three teams with a combined won-lost records of 3-29. And they lost to Temple! Temple!” Corso told the Louisville Courier-Journal in its Nov. 20, 1972 edition.
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