So Long, Scooter

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8 thoughts on “So Long, Scooter”

  1. Never have gotten the Corso thing. I guess you have to be a certain age (I’m 55, so older than that.) And if you don’t get the Corso thing, it makes watching him go so many years past when he should’ve retired just plain uncomfortable. He’s not quite up there with Lou Holtz — I despised having to listen to him suck his dentures and banter with Mark May — but he’s up there somewhere.

  2. “Not so fast, my friend”, Scooter can still do game day from his golf cart, while cruising The Villages, interviewing the locals…

  3. Corso went on too long after the stroke, but he is one of the last few ties to when ESPN was worth watching outside of a live game.

    Wish him well in retirement.

  4. Probably should’ve hung it up a decade ago, shtick has gotten really stale, certainly don’t think he’s the best person in college football, etc., but it is sad that one more “connection” to the “old days” has been cut….

  6. While it is always a bit sad to lose nostalgic old timers in a sport you have enjoyed yourself for decades……..

    Holy shit did they keep rolling this guy out LONG after he was even slightly competent.

    It has been 5, maybe 10 years since he added anything coherent or worthwhile to a broadcast, and watching people pretend to respect his brain dead blatherings has been painful at best.

    They need to find a better way to utilize “emeritus” type people. Either really prepare them in advance to just drop a few colorful anecdotes that are PLANNED so everyone knows they are actually relevant and make sense – and have someone READY with an instant hook/bailout when the clueless ramblings begin.

    Losing Vern was way worse than losing this guy. Vern was actually still watchable and competent.

    • Btw, due to a blog I started its too annoying to swap back and forth between “Muckbeast/Professor Hartman” for anyone here who cares. LOL. That’s me… and that’s why its the same icon. 😛

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