LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Fired Indiana football coach Lee Corso has been asked to return to the University of Louisville, where he once served as head coach, to direct athletic fund raising.
'We would tailor-make a job for him if he's interested in coming back to Louisville,' said athletic director Bill Olsen.
'He would be our kind of people-person: shaking hands and fund raising.'
The 47-year-old Corso was fired last month after 10 years as head coach of the Hoosiers. He went to Indiana after four years as head coach of Louisville.
Corso told the Louisville Courier-Journal that he had talked with Olsen about returning to Louisville but said he wasn't prepared to make any decision.
'I'm going to do what (former Ohio State football coach) Woody Hayes advised me to do -- not close any options. Leave 'em open for a while and make a sound decision.'
According to Corso, 'The best thing I can do is sit back a while and make a positive decision.'
Corso added that 'there are a lot if things in the talking stage. I've got to try and sit down and do what's best for my family.
'Do I want to stay in coaching? If so, college coaching or the pros? Or what about a spinoff of coaching, something in athletics? Business? The media? I don't know.'
Corso said he has received phone calls of support from Hayes and another fired coach, Fran Curci, who was ousted at Kentucky after the 1981 season.
