Ten years ago this weekend, as Georgia State prepared to kick off its inaugural football season, the fledgling Panther program was thrust onto the national stage, appearing on the cover of the ESPN the Magazine college football preview issue, dated Aug. 23, 2010.
Shortly after Bill Curry was hired as the program's first head coach in June 2008, ESPN the Magazine began a series of articles chronicling the construction of the program. The articles covered events such early planning meetings by Curry's first staff, which included six assistant coaches hired for the fall of 2008; the program's first recruiting class, signed in February 2009; the first tryout and so forth.