"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.