Lee Corso, a renowned college football coach and popular ESPN announcer, will have made an incredible $12 million by 2025. This is because he is charming and creative. He is currently 90 years old. He has a lot of money since he worked hard for many years. He was a superb quarterback and coach in his early years and then became the famed “Headgear” commentator on *College GameDay*, a show he helped launch in 1987 and defined with his dramatic mascot helmet forecasts.
Corso’s success with money isn’t just because of his radio compensation, which includes multi-million-dollar contracts in later years. He also receives money from a number of endorsement arrangements and royalties, such as relationships with brands like Nike and the NCAA Football video game franchise from EA Sports. These are some rather inventive ways to use his name outside of athletics. He was also the Director of Business Development for Dixon Ticonderoga, where he started a project to make crayons out of soybeans. This showed that he had an entrepreneurial spirit.
His work ethic was based on his personal life: he has been married since 1957, has a big family, and is a skilled real estate investor. He is the son of Italian immigrants who grew up in Illinois and Miami. He bought a 3,000-square-foot beachfront home in Lake Mary, Florida, in 1986 for about $82,500 and converted it into a multi-million dollar estate. This illustrates that he has a long-term, disciplined investment style.
Corso’s impact goes beyond the numbers on the scoreboard and the balance sheet. He is the honorary chairman of Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer and has won accolades like the “Contributions to College Football Award” from the National College Football accolades Association in 2010 for his long-lasting impact.
Corso completed his long and successful career on *College GameDay* in August 2025. He left behind a plan on how to mix knowledge with personality, make money in different ways, and really connect with people. Young broadcasters and sportsmen should look to this history as a hopeful example: being honest and smart about business can lead to long-term financial success that is as amazing as the game itself.