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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody in this room.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I guarantee you had been affected about it.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Sea Word.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Colorado football coach Dean Sanders, diagnosed with an aggressive form
of bladder cancer earlier this year, had surgery to remove
the organ and is now considered cured by his doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Coach Prime says he's fully ready to coach the Buffs
this season, joining us now in the Kawa Commas brud
Health Hotline. His voice of the Buffs, it's Mark Johnson. Mark.
I think I even saw reports that coach didn't even
necessarily tell his family about what he was going through.
Did you know anything about this? Did you get a
sense that Coach Prime wasn't feeling up to his normal self?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I certainly didn't know. You know, back when a
you're thinking about when this was first happening, when he
first got the news back in the spring, he wasn't
indicating anything, and he kept it very very quiet, you know, obviously,
but keeping it from his son's because they were getting
ready for the NFL draft, kept it from his team,
and then knowing you know, kind of how the world
revolves in his space, if you will, the fact that
(00:55):
everything that happens with him seems to be big news.
I'm sure he wanted to keep that quiet as well.
But you know, I thought yesterday the way he handled himself.
We've always known he was kind of a master marketer
and presenter, and I thought he was phenomenally yesterday how
he handled himself. I was joking, I tweeted out yesterday afterwards.
I said, he is the only man of the world
that could talk about incontinence and make it sound cool.
(01:17):
I mean, he came through this thing, I thought, controlled
the narrative and was trying to inspire people through it.
I really thought it was an amazing thing to kind
of witness yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I love the overalls too. I really enjoyed the outfit
that he was in yesterday. But Mark, when we look
at this and we talked, you mentioned it a little
bit here. When why do you think he waited so long?
Because do you think there is a little bit about
just the high stress of the coaching world. He wanted
to just announce that he was fully cured instead of
announcing that he had cancer, because then it goes into
(01:46):
the entire spiral of people thinking, well, is he capable
of coaching? Is he going to be healthy enough? This
is just such a stressful time for him that he
just realized it's better just to let people know that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm fully cured.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah. He certainly, like I said, kind of controlled the
narrative of this whole thing. And I was talking with
a couple of reporters yesterday afterward, and I said, in
this day and age where everything seems to get out,
And then he talked about, you know, the list of
people who were encouraging him and then praying for him
and calling him and coming to see him, and yet
with all those people around and all the media kind
(02:20):
of you know, shall we say, nosing around his business
all the time, the fact that it didn't get out
it really is amazing to me. And then you know,
to keep that away from his team. And you know, listen,
we all knew something was serious was going on with
him from a health standpoint, because he wasn't hadn't been
in bowler for three months. And you know, I at
one point I asked him about, you know, how he
communicated with his team, and he said, well, I didn't much.
(02:40):
You know, he was communicating with his coaches. However, his
coaches didn't know I was with the two coordinators here
about to I don't know, three three and a half
weeks ago, and he had spent some time with each
one of the offensive a defensive coordinator, Pat Sherman and
Robert Livingston, and I said, you guys have any clue,
and like, we don't have no idea. We're we're having
communications with him, we're talking business of football, we're getting
ready for a season. But he's he kept it very quiet,
(03:02):
and so, like I said, the way he kind of
controlled the narrative of this thing, I think was very impressive.
And then how he finally, you know, unveil everything yesterday
really was.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Impactful considering everything. How far to it is? Is it
that he found this? And he's in the care of
really one of the top you know, medical teams and
you know, medical hospitals around the country, and see you metage,
Oh Marty, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What a blessing that is. I mean, you know, you
hear stories like that every once in a while, where
you know, somebody gets a test store has his scan
for something that you know is relatively benign and they
find something serious and and that's you know, apparently the
way this worked out because they were looking at something
having to do with you know, his circulation and the
toes and the things that we know about and he's
talked about openly and then just to stumble upon this
(03:46):
because as I understand, and again complicated issue. But when
the phenomenal oncologist yesterday was talking about if it master
sizes to the muscle, how much dire this can be,
and they caught it in a very good time. And
so Prime talked greatly about his faith yesterday and feeling
blessed through this whole thing, and it certainly was a
(04:07):
blessing that it was found at the time that it was,
because it could have been a whole lot worse than
it actually.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Turned out to be, and using it as a great
opportunity to tell everyone to get tested, get checked out,
because he wouldn't have known if he didn't practically stumble
upon this situation. But Mark, when we look at this
going forward, any difference, any changes that we could see
on the sidelines for the coach.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well that was one of the more I thought light
moments yesterday. Now now he claimed somebody asked him about
relying more on his coaches and kind of from the
exes and ohs aspect of being a coach, and his
response says, listen, I'm back. I'm here, I'm coaching right now.
The lighter moment, though, was where he talked about, you know,
kind of the incontinent stuff, and sometimes it's not as
easy to kind of navigate the difficulties of this, guys.
(04:49):
I with my accident I had a year ago, I
dealt with a very short term period with the same
kind of thing. And so he and I had a
moment yesterday we kind of talked about that. But I
thought it was funny where he said yesterday there's going
to be some sort of a porta potiga in a sideline,
and knowing prime style, I can only imagine what that
porta poty is going to look like. That ought to
be something to be interested in and pay attention to
when the season gets underway.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Final question, and most important is the coach's health. But
is there anybody does it give a moment of pause
at all? Because we know what a college football season
is like grueling. I know he's gotten the Clarence Clarence,
if you will, But about being able to sustain and
be able to coach a full season and potentially whatever
comes after that, well, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A legitimate an honest question, Marty. You know, anytime you
go through something of this magnitude that is this impactful,
you know from a health standpoint, you wonder about it.
I mean, you know how much impact is going to
have on him, how much is going to take out
of him? And so listen, I think the medical team
he's got around him is obviously already thought about this
kind of thing. They're going to talk about that and
(05:49):
he'll make whatever, you know, precautionary moves he has to
make to do that, because when you go through anything, Listen,
we've all been effected in one way, shape or form
by cancer. Somebody around us, if not us per personally,
has dealt with this, and we know how impactful it
can be and how debilitating it can be at different times.
So I'm quite certain that they've talked about that, and
I think that's yet to be determined. We'll see what
(06:10):
happens when the season unfolds. Well, you're right, it is.
It's a gauntlet, it's a marathon. It is taxing, to
say the least, on everybody involved and certainly privably effected
in some form or fashionable. We'll have to see how
that unfolds.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Voice of the buff.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Smart Johnson appreciate your time as always. I bet it'll
be a golden porta potty of some sort.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He'll definitely it'll be blinked out. Thanks
Everybody in this room.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I guarantee you had been affected about it.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Sea Word.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Colorado football coach Dean Sanders, diagnosed with an aggressive form
of bladder cancer earlier this year, had surgery to remove
the organ and is now considered cured by his doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Coach Prime says he's fully ready to coach the Buffs
this season, joining us now in the Kawa Commas brud
Health Hotline. His voice of the Buffs, it's Mark Johnson. Mark.
I think I even saw reports that coach didn't even
necessarily tell his family about what he was going through.
Did you know anything about this? Did you get a
sense that Coach Prime wasn't feeling up to his normal self?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I certainly didn't know. You know, back when a
you're thinking about when this was first happening, when he
first got the news back in the spring, he wasn't
indicating anything, and he kept it very very quiet, you know, obviously,
but keeping it from his son's because they were getting
ready for the NFL draft, kept it from his team,
and then knowing you know, kind of how the world
revolves in his space, if you will, the fact that
(00:55):
everything that happens with him seems to be big news.
I'm sure he wanted to keep that quiet as well.
But you know, I thought yesterday the way he handled himself.
We've always known he was kind of a master marketer
and presenter, and I thought he was phenomenally yesterday how
he handled himself. I was joking, I tweeted out yesterday afterwards.
I said, he is the only man of the world
that could talk about incontinence and make it sound cool.
(01:17):
I mean, he came through this thing, I thought, controlled
the narrative and was trying to inspire people through it.
I really thought it was an amazing thing to kind
of witness yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I love the overalls too. I really enjoyed the outfit
that he was in yesterday. But Mark, when we look
at this and we talked, you mentioned it a little
bit here. When why do you think he waited so long?
Because do you think there is a little bit about
just the high stress of the coaching world. He wanted
to just announce that he was fully cured instead of
announcing that he had cancer, because then it goes into
(01:46):
the entire spiral of people thinking, well, is he capable
of coaching? Is he going to be healthy enough? This
is just such a stressful time for him that he
just realized it's better just to let people know that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm fully cured.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah. He certainly, like I said, kind of controlled the
narrative of this whole thing. And I was talking with
a couple of reporters yesterday afterward, and I said, in
this day and age where everything seems to get out,
And then he talked about, you know, the list of
people who were encouraging him and then praying for him
and calling him and coming to see him, and yet
with all those people around and all the media kind
(02:20):
of you know, shall we say, nosing around his business
all the time, the fact that it didn't get out
it really is amazing to me. And then you know,
to keep that away from his team. And you know, listen,
we all knew something was serious was going on with
him from a health standpoint, because he wasn't hadn't been
in bowler for three months. And you know, I at
one point I asked him about, you know, how he
communicated with his team, and he said, well, I didn't much.
(02:40):
You know, he was communicating with his coaches. However, his
coaches didn't know I was with the two coordinators here
about to I don't know, three three and a half
weeks ago, and he had spent some time with each
one of the offensive a defensive coordinator, Pat Sherman and
Robert Livingston, and I said, you guys have any clue,
and like, we don't have no idea. We're we're having
communications with him, we're talking business of football, we're getting
ready for a season. But he's he kept it very quiet,
(03:02):
and so, like I said, the way he kind of
controlled the narrative of this thing, I think was very impressive.
And then how he finally, you know, unveil everything yesterday
really was.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Impactful considering everything. How far to it is? Is it
that he found this? And he's in the care of
really one of the top you know, medical teams and
you know, medical hospitals around the country, and see you metage,
Oh Marty, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What a blessing that is. I mean, you know, you
hear stories like that every once in a while, where
you know, somebody gets a test store has his scan
for something that you know is relatively benign and they
find something serious and and that's you know, apparently the
way this worked out because they were looking at something
having to do with you know, his circulation and the
toes and the things that we know about and he's
talked about openly and then just to stumble upon this
(03:46):
because as I understand, and again complicated issue. But when
the phenomenal oncologist yesterday was talking about if it master
sizes to the muscle, how much dire this can be,
and they caught it in a very good time. And
so Prime talked greatly about his faith yesterday and feeling
blessed through this whole thing, and it certainly was a
(04:07):
blessing that it was found at the time that it was,
because it could have been a whole lot worse than
it actually.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Turned out to be, and using it as a great
opportunity to tell everyone to get tested, get checked out,
because he wouldn't have known if he didn't practically stumble
upon this situation. But Mark, when we look at this
going forward, any difference, any changes that we could see
on the sidelines for the coach.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well that was one of the more I thought light
moments yesterday. Now now he claimed somebody asked him about
relying more on his coaches and kind of from the
exes and ohs aspect of being a coach, and his
response says, listen, I'm back. I'm here, I'm coaching right now.
The lighter moment, though, was where he talked about, you know,
kind of the incontinent stuff, and sometimes it's not as
easy to kind of navigate the difficulties of this, guys.
(04:49):
I with my accident I had a year ago, I
dealt with a very short term period with the same
kind of thing. And so he and I had a
moment yesterday we kind of talked about that. But I
thought it was funny where he said yesterday there's going
to be some sort of a porta potiga in a sideline,
and knowing prime style, I can only imagine what that
porta poty is going to look like. That ought to
be something to be interested in and pay attention to
when the season gets underway.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Final question, and most important is the coach's health. But
is there anybody does it give a moment of pause
at all? Because we know what a college football season
is like grueling. I know he's gotten the Clarence Clarence,
if you will, But about being able to sustain and
be able to coach a full season and potentially whatever
comes after that, well, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A legitimate an honest question, Marty. You know, anytime you
go through something of this magnitude that is this impactful,
you know from a health standpoint, you wonder about it.
I mean, you know how much impact is going to
have on him, how much is going to take out
of him? And so listen, I think the medical team
he's got around him is obviously already thought about this
kind of thing. They're going to talk about that and
(05:49):
he'll make whatever, you know, precautionary moves he has to
make to do that, because when you go through anything, Listen,
we've all been effected in one way, shape or form
by cancer. Somebody around us, if not us per personally,
has dealt with this, and we know how impactful it
can be and how debilitating it can be at different times.
So I'm quite certain that they've talked about that, and
I think that's yet to be determined. We'll see what
(06:10):
happens when the season unfolds. Well, you're right, it is.
It's a gauntlet, it's a marathon. It is taxing, to
say the least, on everybody involved and certainly privably effected
in some form or fashionable. We'll have to see how
that unfolds.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Voice of the buff.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Smart Johnson appreciate your time as always. I bet it'll
be a golden porta potty of some sort.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He'll definitely it'll be blinked out. Thanks
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